In terms of economic development, China is widely acclaimed as a miracle economy. Over a
period of rapid economic growth, however, China's reputation for health has been slipping …

China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right
direction, but much more remains to be done. The problems to be resolved, reflecting the …

Summary The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, created to marshal the
evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to …

In this paper, we analyse China's current health workforce in terms of quantity, quality, and
distribution. Unlike most countries, China has more doctors than nurses—in 2005, there …

China's 3 year, CN¥ 850 billion (US $125 billion) reform plan, launched in 2009, marked the
first phase towards achieving comprehensive universal health coverage by 2020. The …

Health is a universal human aspiration and a basic human need. The development of
society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population's health, how fairly health …

Japan's premier health accomplishment in the past 50 years has been the achievement of
good population health at low cost and increased equity between different population …

In 2009, China launched a major health-care reform and pledged to provide all citizens with
equal access to basic health care with reasonable quality and financial risk protection. The …

We created a comprehensive set of health-system performance measurements for China
nationally and regionally, with health-system coverage and catastrophic medical spending …

The gross inequalities in health that we see within and between countries present a
challenge to the world. That there should be a spread of life expectancy of 48 years among …