China's Healthcare System

The healthcare system in each country is intended to meet the best possible medical services needs of its citizens. One country’s healthcare system can vary from another. This is according to their administration strategy, training, education, technology, and spending plan. Social, economic, political, and physical parts of the nation also play huge role in defining a country’s healthcare system. There are many similarities in the delivery of medical services between United States and Nepal. For the middle class people, affording a good healthcare system is still an unresolved issue of these two countries. The issue of financing the system of healthcare has been the biggest challenge to the government of Nepal, and it is similar to the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States. Although Nepal and the United States have similarities in healthcare system, they also equally share significant differences in providers, spending and the medical professionals. Some people consider that the healthcare system in the U.S. is superior.

The Chinese culture is built around thousands of years of tradition. Understanding these Chinese beliefs and social influences may benefit you when attending to someone of this culture.

A Health care system of any country is an important consideration for the purposes of the overall development. One of the most important and essential feature of the human body is the health and the systems. In the same manner, proper management is also necessary. Furthermore, all the countries of the world have few targets and achievements to be made. On the other hand, it should also be noted down that, economic development and social welfare the two most are the two important factors. Economic welfare is connected with the increase in the wealth of the people at large (Niles, 2011).

Mao reduced the program of study for doctors from six years to three as a way to encourage more rural students to pursue a healthcare education. Although the program was cut to only three years, students were trained to deal with the most common diseases and healthcare problems. This process led to a high improvement in health and life expectancy of the general population in rural areas.

The United States is currently in the process of a health care reform which will change the current private sector health care program into a universal healthcare system. A great example of a universal healthcare program is Hong Kong. There are other countries that have changed from a private to a public health care system, but Hong Kong has shown that they have done it best. When comparing Hong Kong’s healthcare system to the United States healthcare system, the strengths and weaknesses of both will be revealed.

Today, health care systems around the world are reforming more than ever. Initiatives are being taken to introduce new and improved care and access in a reasonable and cost-efficient manner. In order to discover and develop a system that is best suited for a country, many tactics and acts are viewed as trial-and-error. The United States and China, both two of the largest countries in the world, have both similarities and differences in their health care systems that function jointly to offer care to their citizens. This paper will progress to compare and contrast different components of the United States and Chinese health care systems such as the history of the health care systems, delivery of health care, challenges with access and cost, and reform efforts made by each dominating and world renown country.

In 1975 an estimated 84.6% of the rural Chinese population was covered by the system but by 1985, only 39.9% was covered (14). The decline of the CMS resulted in several consequences for both health care providers and patients in rural China (10). For example, many barefoot doctors had difficulty to upgrading their skills since their training was previously financed by the CMS, which can affect the quality care that patients received. Additionally, without the CMS, the medical expenses became the responsibility of the patients and the high cost of hospitalization and treatment

The health care system of Taiwan was developed based off the problem that not everyone was covered. They wanted to develop a plan that would cover everyone. After Taiwan was economically booming, they then focused on their poor health care system. About half the population had no coverage at all so they found a way to change this("Taiwan Takes Fast Track to Universal Health Care : NPR," n.d.)

In a recent article by Chang, 2013, solving the U.S. health care problems, it is stated that the need to pursue many strategies to address the problems. This article proposes the action strategy which takes into account decision factors important to healthcare organizations such as economic viability, technological feasibility, ease of implementation, and operational efficiency as well. The article states that if this strategy is implemented, a job the majority of healthcare organizations will be able to achieve is forward progress in cost reduction, quality enhancement, cycle time shortening and an increase in patient satisfaction (Chang, 2013). Practitioners in the IT management area are supposed to be well prepared to assist health care organizations and implementing these elements of the strategy is another problem that faces the American system. The VA system is a failure in itself. The health care reform really didn 't address the veterans. These individuals who have protected the freedom and rights of the American citizens should be provided free healthcare and have access to set Health Care within a reasonable amount of time. In a recent article by Elnitsky, et. al,, 2013, discusses the US Department of Veteran Affairs implemented poly trauma system to meet the needs of the military veterans with multiple injuries from combat operations overseas (Elnitsky, 2013). The study provided the initial description of the VA polytrauma rehabilitation system, the findings

As a developing country, maintaining an affordable healthcare system that is available to all of its citizens is crucial for its eventual success. Countless different countries have struggled to devise a way to provide health insurance to their citizens, and China is no exception. Ever since the collapse of China’s Cooperative Medical System in the 1980’s, rural citizens have struggled immensely to obtain affordable healthcare. This paper intends to examine Chinese healthcare reform from 2000 to 2005, mainly focusing on the New Rural Cooperative Medical System as well as the background of China’s healthcare system and how it reached this point. China has had a complex history, especially when talking about healthcare reform in regards to

The World Health Organization (WHO; 2015), estimated in the year 2013 China 's population of 1,393,337,000 has experienced a different type of health outcomes. In where the nation China has been promoting an egalitarian society, while having achieved a greater health outcomes compared to the year 1949 communist revolution (Valentine, 2005). China has been successful in controlling many health indicators including the death rate of 6.9 per 1,000 in 2004 as one attributes due to Barefoot Doctors movements (Valentine, 2005; WHO, 2015). Nevertheless, 80% of the Chinese population lives in rural communities, which most people still continues to die from the preventable infectious disease (Dummer & Cook, 2008). The increase in mortality rates causes by preventable diseases such as the supply of clean water, and environmental sanitation is due to the lacks actual medical doctors given birth to the demands for ‘Barefoot Doctors’ adaptation of traits and skills (Dummer & Cook, 2008; Valentine, 2005 ).

In this article, I introduce the Chinese Healthcare System. From establishment of the People's Republic of China till now, the Chinese healthcare have a lot of changes and revolutions. Due to the special social and economic structure, Chinese healthcare system is different from other countries healthcare system. This article will explain how dose Chinese healthcare system work? What problems dose it have? How can we manage those problems?

Around 36,000 opinions and suggestions were sent in by the public about the revised policy document over the course of one year. The Health Reform Coordination Group considered the feedback and included ten amendments in their reform document. The fifth and final stage revealed the Formal Healthcare Reform Policy. “Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Health Care System” and “The Plan for Recent Focus of Health System Reform (2009-2011)” were issued in March of 2009. After nearly four years of China’s healthcare reform process, the documents laid out the future of China’s healthcare system, and the five major aspects of the reform plan were developing a medical insurance system, a drug system, a medical service system, a public health system, and the reform of public hospitals. (Shi, 2014)

Ajaya Tachajanta 2011 General Electric Medical Systems, 2002 Overview GEMS is the world’s leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment and part of Milwaukee-based GE. It is the leader in MR and CT imaging in all regions. According to Immelt’s strategy, GEMS evolves from taking joint-venture and acquisition as the first step where business’s size is matter. Secondly, Global Product Company (GPC) concept is introduced aiming at cutting cost by shifting the manufacturing activities from high-cost based to low-cost based nations, allowing GEMS to earn more margin. Last but not least, investing in developing marketing and sales organization is emphasized to position GEMS as a more than Equipment Company i.e. to differentiate itself from

Ajaya Tachajanta 2011 General Electric Medical Systems, 2002 Overview GEMS is the world’s leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment and part of Milwaukee-based GE. It is the leader in MR and CT imaging in all regions. According to Immelt’s strategy, GEMS evolves from taking joint-venture and acquisition as the first step where business’s size is matter. Secondly, Global Product Company (GPC) concept is introduced aiming at cutting cost by shifting the manufacturing activities from high-cost based to low-cost based nations, allowing GEMS to earn more margin. Last but not least, investing in developing marketing and sales organization is emphasized to position GEMS as a more than Equipment Company i.e. to differentiate itself from