Author : David M Lampton
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Politics Medicine China/h by : David M Lampton
Download or read book Politics Medicine China/h written by David M Lampton and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1977-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, medical analysts and officials concerned with the United States and the Third World are searching for alternative means by which to bring needed health services to their people. For a mixture of reasons, including China's visible success, cultural resonance, and historical accident, the Chinese health experience has come to occupy an exalted place among the many possible alternatives. In the process of assessing the applicability of China's medical programs, however, insufficient attention has been directed toward analyzing the concrete results of past policies and the reasons for subsequent policy change. While this volume is specifically concerned with analyzing the reasons for policy change, and deriving a coherent view of the Chinese political process from that analysis, this discussion should provide the background -for informed public policy debate here and abroad. This study has the objective of examining and explaining changes in Chinese health care policy during the 1949-1977 period. The questions which this study seeks to answer are: why have policies changed, why have they moved in the directions they have, and what does all this tell us about the Chinese policy process? Seven important areas of medical policy will be considered: medical education, medical research, the structure of the health care delivery system, service financing, the conditions of physician employment, traditional medicine, and mass campaigns.