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China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The MarketA Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health Care

China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market: A Reconstructionist Confucian Approach... A Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health Care The Ethical Principles, the Market, and Policy Reforms Ruiping Fan 1 The Challenges of Health Care in Current China The world is witnessing a rapid development of current China – its booming econ- omy, promising markets, advancing sciences and technologies, and improving ed- ucation, etc. However, China also faces enormous cultural, social and economic problems and difficulties. This paper focuses on issues in Chinese health care ethics, markets, and policies. Let me begin by summarizing a series of severe challenges that China is confronting in the demand and supply of health care as follows. 1. How should China adequately establish and stabilize a sustainable health care system for a huge population with an ever increasing portion of the retired elderly (demanding high-intensity health care interventions) and an ever decreasing por- tion of the working people (providing funds to support health care)? This is a crucially important issue for the long-term development of Chinese health care system, being all the more urgent with the “four-two-one” structure of the cur- rent Chinese family under the government’s “one child per couple” population- control policy. 2. What should be done to set up a basic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The MarketA Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health Care

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 96)
Editors: Tao, Julia
Fan, Ruiping
China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market — Jan 1, 2008
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
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978-1-4020-6756-3
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A Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health Care The Ethical Principles, the Market, and Policy Reforms Ruiping Fan 1 The Challenges of Health Care in Current China The world is witnessing a rapid development of current China – its booming econ- omy, promising markets, advancing sciences and technologies, and improving ed- ucation, etc. However, China also faces enormous cultural, social and economic problems and difficulties. This paper focuses on issues in Chinese health care ethics, markets, and policies. Let me begin by summarizing a series of severe challenges that China is confronting in the demand and supply of health care as follows. 1. How should China adequately establish and stabilize a sustainable health care system for a huge population with an ever increasing portion of the retired elderly (demanding high-intensity health care interventions) and an ever decreasing por- tion of the working people (providing funds to support health care)? This is a crucially important issue for the long-term development of Chinese health care system, being all the more urgent with the “four-two-one” structure of the cur- rent Chinese family under the government’s “one child per couple” population- control policy. 2. What should be done to set up a basic

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Confucian Ethic; Health Care Market; Ethical Account; Medical Care System; Chinese Health

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