Health-care reform in China: a call for papers

摘要

In 2009, China unveiled its ambitious health-care reform plan, with the goal of provision of affordable and equitable basic health care for all by 2020.1 The reform is anchored in five interdependent areas: expanding coverage to insure more than 90% of the population, establishing a national essential medicines system, improving the primary care system, making public health services available and equal for all, and public hospital reforms. How has China changed since the 2009 healthcare reform?