[EQ] Health System Reform in China

The Lancet Series on Health System Reform in China

 

Website: http://www.thelancet.com/online/focus/china.collection

 

“…..A scientific collaboration on China and global health launched by The Lancet, Peking University Health Sciences Centre, and the China Medical Board, was launched in Beijing on Oct 20, 2008.

 

This Series-focusing on health-system Reform in China - consists of 19 commissioned research papers that bring together the most recent scientific evidence on China's major health challenges, its health strategies, and China's health future. The Series was produced by a team of 63 scientists, with Chinese scientists constituting two-thirds of the authors, collaborating with an international team from 10 countries.

 

The purpose of this collaboration is to introduce China's health system, achievements, and predicaments to the world and to foster scientific and institutional alliances that can strengthen the health - and ameliorate the adverse social and environmental determinants of health - of the Chinese people….."

 

Full collection of China Series available at:

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China and global health
Qide Han, Lincoln Chen, Tim Evans, Richard Horton - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61350-1) Full Text

Biomedical science and technology in China
Zhu Chen - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61352-5) Full Text

Evolution of China's health-care system
Zhe Dong, Michael R Phillips - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61351-3) Full Text

Traditional Chinese medicine
Jin-Ling Tang, Bao-Yan Liu, Kan-Wen Ma - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61354-9) Full Text

Anthropology in China's health promotion and tobacco
Shuiyuan Xiao, Matthew Kohrman - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61361-6) Full Text

Reproductive health in China: improve the means to the end
Jing Fang, Joan Kaufman - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61356-2) Full Text

China's HIV/AIDS epidemic: continuing challenges
Kong-Lai Zhang, Roger Detels, Susu Liao, Myron Cohen, Dong-Bao Yu - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61357-4)
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Schistosomiasis control: experiences and lessons from China
Longde Wang, Jürg Utzinger, Xiao-Nong Zhou - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61358-6) Full Text

China's barefoot doctor: past, present, and future
Daqing Zhang, Paul U Unschuld - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61355-0)
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Medical research ethics in China
Ruotao Wang, Gail E Henderson - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61353-7)
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Government policy and organ transplantation in China
Jiefu Huang, Yilei Mao, J Michael Millis - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61359-8)
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Internal migration and health in China
Xiaojiang Hu, Sarah Cook, Miguel A Salazar - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61360-4)
Full Text

 

Series

Tackling the challenges to health equity in China
Shenglan Tang, Qingyue Meng, Lincoln Chen, Henk Bekedam, Tim Evans, Margaret Whitehead - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61364-1)
Summary | Full Text

Emergence and control of infectious diseases in China
Longde Wang, Yu Wang, Shuigao Jin, Zunyou Wu, Daniel P Chin, Jeffrey P Koplan, Mary Elizabeth Wilson - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61365-3)
Summary | Full Text

Emergence of chronic non-communicable diseases in China
Gonghuan Yang, Lingzhi Kong, Wenhua Zhao, Xia Wan, Yi Zhai, Lincoln C Chen, Jeffrey P Koplan - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61366-5)
Summary | Full Text

Injury-related fatalities in China: an under-recognised public-health problem
SY Wang, YH Li, GB Chi, SY Xiao, J Ozanne-Smith, M Stevenson, MR Phillips - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61367-7)
Summary | Full Text

China's human resources for health: quantity, quality, and distribution
Sudhir Anand, Victoria Y Fan, Junhua Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Yang Ke, Zhe Dong, Lincoln C Chen - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61363-X)
Summary | Full Text

Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities
Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Maria-Luisa Escobar, David de Ferranti - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61368-9)
Summary | Full Text

China's health system performance
Yuanli Liu, Keqin Rao, Jing Wu, Emmanuela Gakidou - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61362-8)
Summary | Full Text

 

Perspectives

Han Qide: a medical and political leader in China
Margaret Harris Cheng - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61562-7)
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Chen Zhu: from barefoot doctor to China's Minister of Health
Jonathan Watts - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61561-5)
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