Reforming China's rural health system /
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| Imprint: | Washington, DC : World Bank, c2009. |
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| Description: | xxi, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Directions in development Directions in development (Washington, D.C.) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7792064 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- China's Shift from Economic Growth to "Balanced Development"
- The World Bank's Analytic and Advisory Activities on China's Rural Health Sector
- Overview of the Book
- Chapter 2. China's Health Challenges at the Start of the New Millennium
- Trends in Health Outcomes
- Trends in Health Inequalities
- Out-of-Pocket Costs-A Barrier to Care and a Cause of Poverty
- Accounting for the Household Burden
- Provider Incentives, Costs, and the Quality of Care
- Health Insurance Contraction
- Inequality in Government Spending
- Challenges and Reforms-Creating a Path Forward
- Chapter 3. The Rural Health Reforms of the 2000s
- The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
- Medical Assistance
- Public Health
- Provider Payment Reform
- Other Reforms in Service Delivery
- Sizing Up the Recent Reforms
- Annex: Impact Evaluation of NRCMS
- Chapter 4. Looking Toward a New Decade: The Big Picture
- Health Systems-Goals, Functions, and Actors
- Evolving Ideas and International Best Practice
- Reform over the Medium Term
- Reform over the Longer Term
- Chapter 5. Financing Rural Insurance Coverage
- More Resources for NRCMS
- Converting NRCMS into a "Purchaser"
- What Should Be Covered?
- Strengthening Management and Governance
- Priorities and Sequencing
- Chapter 6. Improving Service Delivery: A Question of Incentives
- Changing Provider Incentives
- Enabling Providers to Respond to New Incentives
- Reform Priorities, Sequencing, and Capacity
- Chapter 7. Enhancing Accountability and Incentives in Public Health
- The Misalignment of Incentives and Accountability
- Geographic Disparities in Spending
- Roles and Responsibilities across Levels of Government
- Clarifying Responsibilities and Financial Incentives at the County Level
- Priorities, Sequencing, Political Economy, and Skills
- Annex: Case Study of Public Health Financing and Organization in Two Counties
- Chapter 8. The Longer-Term Reform Agenda
- Limitations of the Emerging Health Insurance Model
- A Dual Agenda for Financing Long-Term Reform
- Getting from Here to There
- Chapter 9. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Boxes
- 3.1. NRCMS circa 2005
- 3.2. Medical Assistance circa 2005
- 3.3. Challenges in Estimating Public Health Spending and Comparing across Countries
- 3.4. Provider Payment Reforms in Urban China
- 3.5. Prospective Payments and Purchasing in NRCMS
- 3.6. Impacts of Treatment Protocols, Drug Lists, and Other Innovations in the Health VIII Project in Gansu Province
- 5.1. Trends in Financing Health in Rural China
- 5.2. The Benefit Package in Mexico's Popular Health Insurance Program
- 5.3. Medical Savings Accounts in China and Singapore
- 5.4. Merging of NRCMS and BMI
- 5.5. Health Insurance Governance in Estonia and Costa Rica
- 6.1. Price Regulation in China
- 6.2. International Experience with Provider Payment Reforms
- 6.3. The Importance of Inpatient Care for NRCMS
- 6.4. Setting Health Sector Prices in Japan
- 6.5. Approaches to Extra Billing
