Health sector reform and reproductive health services in poor rural China.

Commentary: China's changing health system: Implications for sexual and reproductive health

Assessment of progress towards sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in China requires the consideration of changes in separate health and family planning systems, as well as consideration of the transition from a command economy to a socialist market economy, led by a highly centralised political system, in the last three decades. Reform of the health system in the 1980s and 1990s encouraged ma...

Health Sector Reforms and Changes in Prevalence of Untreated Morbidity, Choice of Healthcare Providers among the Poor and Rural Population in India

Background India’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   Methods In this paper, I tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

Health Care System Reform in China: Issues, Challenges and Options

This paper examines health care reform in urban and rural China. Before health care reform, Chinese health service facilities were run entirely by the state and basically they performed a social welfare function. This health care system greatly improved the population health conditions but many problems started to emerge in 1980s when the economic reform started. Since then, the government has ...

The Impact of Socio-economic Reform in Rural China on Reproductive Health Services

Addressing the Shortage of Health Professionals in Rural China: Issues and Progress; Comment on “Have Health Human Resources Become More Equal between Rural and Urban Areas after the New Reform?”

Maldistribution of health professionals between urban and rural areas has been a serious problem in China. Urban hospitals attract most of the health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas. To address this issue, a number of policies have been implemented by the government, such as free medical education in exchange for obligatory rural service.