The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the widespread
adoption of collaboration and communication software to enable medical care at a distance1 …

A nation's health and the health-care services provided to its citizens are determined by inter-
related ecological, economic, political, and sociocultural factors. Ongoing changes in these …

2 years ago, China announced a major shake-up of its health system to try to make it both
better and fairer for its billion citizens. Ted Alcorn and Beibei Bao review the developments …

According to China Research Center on Ageing, 202 million elderly people live in China in
2013; 1 among which, more than 100 million have non-communicable diseases, more than …

Although astounding improvements have been made to human wellbeing over the past 40
years—increased lifespan, reduced under-5 mortality, maternal deaths, and extreme …

According to the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, there were 17 243 cases of violent
attacks against health-care workers in 2010, in China. 1 On Oct 25, a patient beat a senior …

The Indian government has been investing in telemedicine in a bid to make health care
more accessible to the country's rural communities. But sceptics are wary about the …

Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 377 February 5, 2011 449 far from helping people rise
out of poverty, has become an important cause of household impoverishment and debt. 4 …

Unlike many other medical products and services, digital health technologies are often sold
directly to, and used by, individual patient consumers. These technological offerings can …

Although China's 2009 health-care reform has made impressive progress in expansion of
insurance coverage, much work remains to improve its wasteful health-care delivery …