Perspective: The state of health services in China and India: A larger context

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 933-936

  Bardhan, Pranab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; POLITICS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; NOTE; STANDARD;

CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 48149089315     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.4.933     Document Type: Short Survey

References (7)

1. W. Yip and A. Mahal, "Health Care Systems of China and India: Performance and Future Challenges," Health Affairs 27, no. 4 (2008): 921-932.
2. World Health Organization, World Health Report 1998 (Geneva:WHO, 1998).
3. M. Dasgupta, "Public Health in India: An Overview," Policy Research Working Paper no. 3787 (Washington:World Bank, 2005).
4. X. Zhang and R. Kanbur, "Spatial Inequality in Education and Health Care in China," China Economic Review 16, no. 2 (2005): 189-204.
5. Ibid.
6. National Sample Survey (New Delhi: Government of India, 2004).
7. For an elaboration of these issues in India, see J. Hammer, Y. Aiyar, and S. Samji, "Understanding Government Failure in Public Health Services," Economic and Political Weekly 42, no. 40 (2007): 4049-4057.