Marketization and informalization of health care services in mega-urban China

• Verfasst von: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Gransow, Bettina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kraas, Frauke [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Yuan, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Marketization and informalization of health care services in mega-urban China
• Verf.angabe: Tabea Bork, Bettina Gransow, Frauke Kraas, Yuan Yuan
• E-Jahr: 2011
• Jahr: 1. Januar 2011
• Umfang: 16 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 29.04.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Krämer, Alexander, 1952 - Health in megacities and urban areas
• Ort Quelle: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2011
• Jahr Quelle: 2011
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2011), Seite 173-188
• ISBN Quelle: 978-3-7908-2733-0
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1923861190

Abstract

Introduction of the market, privatization and decentralization have been the dominant corner stones throughout the first two decades of China’s reform line after the introduction of the open door policy in 1978. Many China researchers (e.g. Wang 2008; Wu 2008) thereby judge, that China’s development path was not merely a transition from planned economy to market-oriented economy, but that a “market society” emerged, in which market principles permeate also noneconomic arenas and “threatened to become the dominant mechanism integrating all of society (and even political life)” (Wang 2008: 18). The marketization of the health sector thereby entailed that social security schemes and therewith financing of public health care collapsed almost completely and out-of-pocket payment became the dominant factor defining people’s access to health care.