China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right
direction, but much more remains to be done. The problems to be resolved, reflecting the …

China is encountering formidable healthcare challenges brought about by the problem of
aging. By 2050, there will be 400 million Chinese citizens aged 65+, 150 million of whom …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis in China revealed not only the failures
of the Chinese health-care system but also some fundamental structural deficiencies. A …

Importance Stroke is the leading cause of death in China. However, recent data about the up-
to-date stroke burden in China are limited. Objective To investigate the urban-rural disparity …

This paper examines the changes in equality of health and health care in China during its
transition from a command economy to market economy. Data from three national surveys in …

Thanks to continued economic growth and increasing income, the overall poverty rate has
been on the decline in China. However, due to escalating medical costs and lack of …

Ever since the collapse of the once successful Rural Cooperative Medical System (RCMS)
in the early 1980s, when China transformed its system of collective agricultural production to …

China's urban health insurance system is mainly consisted of labor insurance schemes (LIS)
and government employee insurance scheme (GIS). LIS is a work unit-based self-insurance …

We created a comprehensive set of health-system performance measurements for China
nationally and regionally, with health-system coverage and catastrophic medical spending …

We find that a cross-country model of economic growth successfully tracks the growth
takeoffs in China and India. The major drivers of the predicted takeoffs are improved health …