Financing Healthcare in China: Towards universal health insurance

by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk

Book Overview

China's current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system, the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367374633
• ISBN13: 9780367374631
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"