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Designing Effective Healthcare: Matching Policy Tools to Problems in China

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  • Azad Singh Bali
  • M Ramesh

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Healthcare reforms often result in disappointing failures due to the misguided goals they pursue and the flawed means they employ. The paper proposes that effectiveness—defined as universal access to essential healthcare at a cost affordable to society—is a worthwhile and achievable objective. But to realize effectiveness, reformers need to discard their a priori preferences for markets or governments and instead select a range of policy tools targeting different problems. The paper will argue that a concerted use of regulatory, fiscal, informational and organizational tools shaping the behaviour of healthcare providers, insurers and users can achieve effective healthcare. The paper will highlight the use and misuse as well as non†use of these tools in China to shed light on tools' approach to health policy reforms. Lessons from China are highly relevant to developing countries around the world trying to reform their health sector. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Azad Singh Bali & M Ramesh, 2017. "Designing Effective Healthcare: Matching Policy Tools to Problems in China," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 37(1), pages 40-50, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:padxxx:v:37:y:2017:i:1:p:40-50
    DOI: 10.1002/pad.1781
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    1. Li, Lili & Taeihagh, Araz, 2020. "An in-depth analysis of the evolution of the policy mix for the sustainable energy transition in China from 1981 to 2020," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 263(C).
    2. Dayashankar Maurya, 2019. "Understanding public health insurance in India: A design perspective," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 1633-1650, October.
    3. Ishani Mukherjee & M. Kerem Coban & Azad Singh Bali, 2021. "Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 54(2), pages 243-268, June.
    4. Dayashankar Maurya & Altaf Virani & S. Rajasulochana, 2017. "Horses for Courses: Moving India towards Universal Health Coverage through Targeted Policy Design," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Springer, vol. 15(6), pages 733-744, December.

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