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China’s Health System

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China’s Health System

Introduce your country (the country I choose is China). Discuss the size of your country’s health sector (relative to

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GDP and relative to other countries). How much have life expectancy and infant mortality improved over the last half century? How does the system determine what to cover?

The Notes assignment is to respond to the above questions with 1-2 pages of written text. Bullet points are acceptable, but everything should be written in complete sentences. Please be sure to devote time to the question of how your country’s health system determines what it will and will not cover. Answering this question will likely require research outside of the readings, since the answer may be quite specific to your country’s institutions.

The optional reading lists:

Readings: • “The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?” New York Times, TheUpShot: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/18/ups… entCollection=upshot®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&cont entPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront • World Health Organization. “Key components of a well functioning health system” (http://www.who.int/healthsystems/EN_HSSkeycomponents.pdf) • *A Great Resource!* Commonwealth Fund. “Health System Features.” (Available here: http://international.commonwealthfund.org/features/) • Chris L. Peterson and Rachel Burton. “U.S. Health Care Spending: Comparison with Other OECD Countries” CRS Report for Congress. September 2007. (http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcont… key_workplace) • Arrow, Kenneth J. “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care.” The American Economic Review 53.5 (1963): 941-973. (http://economicsfiles.pomona.edu/marvasti/data/HealthCareClassArticles/Arrow,%201963.pdf)

China’s Health System

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China’s Health System

The country I choose is China.

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Discussion: How redistributive is your country’s health care system? What are the roles of public and private insurance? What sources of tax revenue are used to finance public insurance programs and how progressive are they? How strongly are health outcomes related to socioeconomic status? Does the system systematically underserve any particular population sub-groups?

As described in the syllabus, the Notes assignment is to respond to the above questions with 1.5-2 pages of written text. Bullet points are acceptable, but everything should be written in complete sentences.

These Readings might help you:

• David Cutler. “Your Money or Your Life.” Chapters 9 and 10.

• *Chen, A., E. Oster, and H. Williams. Why is Infant Mortality in the US Higher than in Europe. Discussion paper, 2013. (Available here: http://brown.edu/research/projects/oster/sites/bro… les/uploads/imr.pdf)

• Mackenbach, Johan P., et al. “Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countries.” New England Journal of Medicine 358.23 (2008): 2468- 2481. (Available here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0707519)

• Makinen, Marty, et al. “Inequalities in health care use and expenditures: empirical data from eight developing countries and countries in transition.”Bulletin of the World Health Organization 78.1 (2000): 55-65. (Available here: http://apps.who.int/bulletin/archives/78(1)55.pdf)