Chinese-Style Decentralization and Health System Reform

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Hipgrave, David ^a   Guo, Sufang ^b   Mu, Yan ^b   Guo, Yan ^c   Yan, Fei ^d   Scherpbier, Robert ^b   Brixi, Hana ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECENTRALIZATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POLITICS;

EID: 84870288973     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001337     Document Type: Article

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