"Recognizing rapidly ageing population is one key concern faced by cities and the challenge it would present to healthcare system, this book looks at ageing in China's population as well as the delivery and financing of long-term care (LTC) in China. The book compares key features of long-term...

Population Ageing and Financing Health and Long-term Care in Asia -- China : The Urban Health Insurance Reform -- Hong Kong : The Mandatory Health Insurance Reform Fiasco -- Japan : The Long-term Care Insurance Reform -- Singapore : A Compulsory Long-term Care Insurance Reform -- Taiwan : The...

Population Ageing and Financing Health and Long-term Care in Asia -- China : The Urban Health Insurance Reform -- Hong Kong : The Mandatory Health Insurance Reform Fiasco -- Japan : The Long-term Care Insurance Reform -- Singapore : A Compulsory Long-term Care Insurance Reform -- Taiwan : The...

This article uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine the complex interplay of forces that shape the health insurance reform trajectory in China since the mid-1980s, problems that plague the current multi-layered social medical insurance system and solutions to...

1. Achieving universal health coverage through a multi-layered social health insurance system -- 2. Population ageing and epidemiologic transitions in China -- 3. Healthcare system in the pre-reform era -- 4. Phases of health insurance reform -- 5. A multi-layered health insurance system :...

Achieving universal health coverage through a multi-layered social health insurance system -- Population ageing and epidemiologic transitions in China -- Healthcare system in the pre-reform era -- Phases of health insurance reform -- A multi-layered health insurance system : composition, models,...

"This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these...