[EQ] The Health Care Systems Of China And India: Performance And Future Challenges

The Health Care Systems of China and India: Performance And Future Challenges

 

Winnie Yip associate professor and Ajay Mahal assistant professor of international health economics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Health Affairs, July/August 2008 -  Volume 27, No. 4 (2008): 921-932

 

Available online at:   http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/4/921

 

“….Both China and India have recently committed to injecting new public funds into health care. Both countries are now deciding how best to channel the additional funds to produce benefits for their populations. In this paper we analyze how well the health care systems of China and India have performed and what determines their performance.

 

Based on the analysis, we suggest that money alone, channeled through insurance and infrastructure strengthening, is inadequate to address the current problems of unaffordable health care and heavy financial risk, and the future challenges posed by aging populations that are increasingly affected by noncommunicable diseases. …”

 

 

PERSPECTIVE

The State Of Health Services In China And India: A Larger Context

Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley

 

Available at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/4/933

 

“…..In this paper the problems of health services in China and India are related to some structural features of the two economies. Some similarities and differences exist across these two countries in terms of political economy, with differential results. Both countries have experienced remarkable economic growth during the past quarter-century, but this has not always translated into improvements in health for the poor.

 

Although China used to have an egalitarian basic public health service, the system has become quite inegalitarian during the past quarter-century, with the disintegration of the communes and adoption of fee-based services under a system of decentralized public finance. India’s health system has remained inegalitarian throughout…”

 

Table of Content at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/current.shtml

 

From the Editor  -  Global Health: Challenges Without Borders - Susan Dentzer

 

Reform Goes Global  - PROLOGUE: China And India: Reform Goes Global

 

The Health Care Systems Of China And India: Performance And Future Challenges

Winnie Yip and Ajay Mahal

 

From A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The Market: Lessons From China

Jin Ma, Mingshan Lu, and Hude Quan

 

Regulating Health Care Markets In China And India

Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, and David H. Peters

 

 Specialty Care Systems: A Pioneering Vision For Global Health

Aman Bhandari, Sandra Dratler, Kristiana Raube, and R.D. Thulasiraj

 

PERSPECTIVE: When Incentives And Professionalism Collide - William C. Hsiao

 

PERSPECTIVE: Improving Health Services In India: A Different Perspective - Julian Schweitzer

 

PERSPECTIVE: The Evolution Of Health Insurance In India And China  - Mark V. Pauly

 

Paying For Care 

   PROLOGUE: Paying For Care

 

Financing Health Improvements In India

Anil B. Deolalikar, Dean T. Jamison, Prabhat Jha, and Ramanan Laxminarayan

 

Decentralization And Public Delivery Of Health Care Services In India - Nirvikar Singh

 

 Health Insurance In China And India: Segmented Roles For Public And Private Financing

Ashoke S. Bhattacharjya and Puneet K. Sapra

 

 

Social Health Insurance And Drug Spending Among Cancer Inpatients In China

Bo Zhou, Li Yang, Qingmin Sun, Haijuan Gu, and Bin Wang

 

Biotech & Drugs 

 

The Indian And Chinese Health Biotechnology Industries: Potential Champions Of Global Health?

Sarah E. Frew, Hannah E. Kettler, and Peter A. Singer

 

 Pharmaceutical Policy In China - Qiang Sun, Michael A. Santoro, Qingyue Meng, Caitlin Liu, and Karen Eggleston

 

Disease & Demography 

 

 The Health Of Aging Populations In China And India

Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal, Colin Mathers, Nirmala Naidoo, Emese Verdes, James P. Smith, and Richard Suzman

 

Will China’s Nutrition Transition Overwhelm Its Health Care System And Slow Economic Growth?

Barry M. Popkin

 

 Finding A Policy Solution To India’s Diabetes Epidemic - Karen Siegel, K.M. Venkat Narayan, and Sanjay Kinra

 

Tackling HIV In India: Evidence-Based Priority Setting And Programming - Mariam Claeson and Ashok Alexander

 

INTERVIEW: China’s Latest Health Reforms: A Conversation With Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu  - Tsung-Mei Cheng

 

Health Tracking 

MARKETWATCH: The Impact Of Consumer-Directed Health Plans On Prescription Drug Use

Jessica Greene, Judith Hibbard, James F. Murray, Steven M. Teutsch, and Marc L. Berger

 

MARKETWATCH: Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Drive Change In Enrollees’ Health Care Behavior?

Anna Dixon, Jessica Greene, and Judith Hibbard

 

TRENDS: Medicare Psychiatric Admissions, 1987–2004: Does The Past Offer Insights For The Future?

Philip G. Cotterill

 

FROM THE FIELD: Rapid Antiretroviral Therapy Scale-Up In Hubei Province, China

Renslow Sherer, Xien Gui, Faxian Zhan, Caroline Teter, Diana Liu Ping, and Randolph F. Wykoff

 

 

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