The Chinese State's Retreat from Health

This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of health policy formation in China and presents a novel examination of the underlying causes of the State's budgetary retrenchment from health and health risk protection.

Jane Duckett is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK.

1 Policy and Politics in the State's Retreat from Health 2 A State-backed Health System, 1950s-1980s 3 The Retreat from Budgetary Financing 4 The Retreat from Rural Risk Protection 5 The Retreat from Urban Risk Protection 6 State Retreat in a One-Party System