Financing Healthcare in China

Financing Healthcare in China uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes.

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China.

1. Achieving Universal Health Coverage through a Multi-layered Social Health Insurance System 2. Population Ageing and Epidemiologic Transitions in China 3. Healthcare System in the Pre-reform Era 4. Four Phases of Health Insurance Reform 5. A Multi-layered Health Insurance System: Composition, Models, and Characteristics 6. Problems in the Current Multi-layered Social Health Insurance System 7. Ways to Ensure the Financial Sustainability of Health Insurance Systems