The on-going transition to a market economy in China is having a profound effect on health services. As a result, the government has made health one of the key
This volume provides a comprehensive review of China's healthcare system and policy reforms in the context of the global economy. Following a value-chain framew
The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social
This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk a