China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Health Systems of

This article describes how health care has been and is currently financed, organized, and delivered in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each system's performance is assessed on the equity and efficiency axes in terms of how well it deals with important market failures. We conclude by drawing compa...

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Autores principales: Leung, G.M., Wagstaff, A., Lindelow, M., Lu, J.R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149405/
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description This article describes how health care has been and is currently financed, organized, and delivered in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each system's performance is assessed on the equity and efficiency axes in terms of how well it deals with important market failures. We conclude by drawing comparative lessons and showing how policymakers are trying or might attempt to rise up to and overcome key challenges.
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spelling pubmed-71494052020-04-13 China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Health Systems of Leung, G.M. Wagstaff, A. Lindelow, M. Lu, J.R. International Encyclopedia of Public Health Article This article describes how health care has been and is currently financed, organized, and delivered in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each system's performance is assessed on the equity and efficiency axes in terms of how well it deals with important market failures. We conclude by drawing comparative lessons and showing how policymakers are trying or might attempt to rise up to and overcome key challenges. 2008 2008-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7149405/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00305-1 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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