China has made remarkable progress in strengthening its primary health-care system.
Nevertheless, the system still faces challenges in structural characteristics, incentives and …

Reforming public hospital financing in China: progress and challenges Page 1 China’s health
system RefoRms: Review of 10 yeaRs of PRogRess 20 doi: 10.1136/bmj.l4015 | BMJ …

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

This article explores the relationships among neoliberalism, social policy expansion and
authoritarian politics in contemporary China. It argues that in the era of neoliberalism, rising …

Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of
the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program--Minimum …

To investigate the phenomenon of patient–physician mistrust in China, a qualitative study
involving 107 physicians, nurses and health officials in Guangdong Province, southern …

China's social health insurance has expanded dramatically over the past decade. The
increasing number of beneficiaries and benefits, however, has aggravated rather than …

In the broader social science literature, most studies of social protection investigate welfare
in democracies, and at the national level, and typically assume that welfare is given in order …

In recent years, public consultation has become a standard feature of policymaking in
authoritarian regimes. While previous studies found evidence of government …

China and Vietnam have experienced waves of labour and welfare reform since both
countries shifted to market socialism, pursuing a development model that depends on the …