China's public health-care system: facing the challenges

China's public health-care system: facing the challenges

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis in China revealed not only the failures of the Chinese health-care system but also some fundamental structural deficiencies. A decentralized and fragmented health system, such as the one found in China, is not well-suited to making a rapid and coor...

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Main Author: Yuanli Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2004-07-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Prestación de atención de salud
Brotes de enfermedades
Notificación de enfermedad
Economía
Control de enfermedades transmisibles
Accesibilidad a los servicios de salud
Infraestructura sanitaria
Cobertura del seguro
Servicios rurales de salud, organización y administración
Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave
China
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