Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe, Jane Duckett argues that the state's retreat from health in China was not a simple consequence of economic policies and market reform. Just as important were the influences of health policies, reform era political institutions, communist party ideology, and bureaucratic stakeholders.
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Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs ...
This study examines two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China - subnational variation, and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. It highlights the local, or sub-national, variation that lies behind broad national policies that is growing from divergent non-state activities and local government.
This study examines two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China - subnational variation, and the changing mix of state and...
