Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System : Red Packets and Institutional Reform

• Main Author: Yang, Jingqing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Health administration.; Social policy.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Social medicine.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811021107
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2110-7
• Physical Description: XI, 287 p. 2 illus. online resource.

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system. It considers how transactions take place at the clinical level as well as their regulation. Analysing the practice from the perspectives of institutions and power structure, it exami...