The Challenge of Public Health in a Major Country: Exploring the Current State of Rural Healthcare in China and Reforms

Author: Wang Hongman
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book is positioned as a genuine and objective rural health report based on extensive research and the collection of a large amount of data. It enables leaders at all levels, scholars, and Chinese citizens concerned with national and people's livelihoods to gain a profound understanding of the current state of rural health and social conditions. The book explores the significant policy and public management perspectives that rural and farmer health conditions have on urban and national development, both existing and potential, utilizing modern political and economic theories such as new institutional economics and good governance theory for multi-level, multi-angle analysis. The book proposes actionable institutional designs and arrangements, accompanied by a wealth of illustrations. In response to the needs of the new era in the 21st century, reforms and attempts have been made in the system and content of the book, exploring new theoretical issues and elaborating on new academic perspectives to assess their feasibility.