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Abstract

Health sector reforms were undertaken in China with the onset of economic reforms in 1979 and can be seen in three phases – the first phase was of introduction of market principles in health services; the second phase was characterised by role of financing mechanisms to address inequities arising from the first phase of reforms and the third phase in more recent years is the rise of markets in financing and provisioning of medical care. The presentation will detail the shifts in the form and content of reforms in the last three decades and discuss its consequences for access and the overall health services system.

About the Speaker

Madhurima Nundy is an Associate Fellow with the Institute of Chinese Studies and is studying the health systems in India and China in a comparative perspective. She has a doctoral degree from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU. Her interests are in looking at transformation of health systems and the role of private sector (not-for-profit and for-profit) in health care and its interactions with the State. She has worked on issues relating to health financing; public-private partnerships in health; and gender and health. She has previously worked with the Public Health Resource Network and the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health and is associated with the larger public health network.