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

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...

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Main Author Yang, Jingqing (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811021107
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-2110-7
Physical DescriptionXI, 287 p. 2 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Socialist Medicine and Theories of Informal Payments
  • Institutional Changes and the Power of Chinese Medical Professionals
  • Health Reform and the Rise of Informal Payments after 1978
  • Transactions of Red Packets in the Hospital
  • Rein in Red Packets
  • Conclusion.

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