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Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System
Jingqing Yang
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Description for Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System
Hardback. Num Pages: 287 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPP; KCQ; MBD; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 519.
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 examines how institutional changes in the pre-reform and reform era have changed the power structure between medical professions, patients and the Party-state, and how these changes have given rise and perpetuate the practice. Drawing from qualitative data from interviews of medical professionals, the author recognises the medical profession as a major player in the health care ... Read more
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 examines how institutional changes in the pre-reform and reform era have changed the power structure between medical professions, patients and the Party-state, and how these changes have given rise and perpetuate the practice. Drawing from qualitative data from interviews of medical professionals, the author recognises the medical profession as a major player in the health care ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811021091
SKU
V9789811021091
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99-15
About Jingqing Yang
Dr Jingqing Yang is a Senior Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests cover sociology of medicine, social history of Chinese healthcare system and medical professions, and China’s health reforms.
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