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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824542103321

Autore

Huang Yanzhong

Titolo

Governing health in contemporary China / / Yanzhong Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-15548-1

0-203-07854-3

1-283-87142-4

1-136-15549-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

China policy series ; ; 29

Disciplina

362.10951

Soggetti

Medical policy - China

Communicable diseases - Prevention

Communism - China

Medical care - Law and legislation - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Health governance under Mao (1949-1976) -- Providing care for all : health care reforms in post-Mao China -- Harnessing the fourth horseman : capacity building in disease control and prevention -- Building ship at sea : food and drug safety regulation.

Sommario/riassunto

The lack of significant improvement in people's health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country's internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the health sector? This book examines the political and policy dynamics of health governance in post-Mao China. It explores the political-institutional roots of the public health and health care challenges and the evolution of the leaders' policy response in contemporary China. It argues that reform-in