Strengthening public health services to achieve universal health coverage in China

Beibei Yuan; Dina Balabanova; Jun Gao; Shenglan Tang; Yan Guo

doi:10.1136/bmj.l2358

Strengthening public health services to achieve universal health coverage in China

BMJ. 2019 Jun 21:365:l2358. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l2358.

Authors

Beibei Yuan¹, Dina Balabanova², Jun Gao³, Shenglan Tang⁴, Yan Guo⁵

Affiliations

¹ China Center for Health Development Studies Peking University, Beijing, China beibeiyuan@bjmu.edu.cn.
² London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ World Health Organization, Manila, Philippines.
⁴ Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁵ School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Better integration of public health and medical services and greater focus on quality of services are needed to make further progress on health outcomes, say Beibei Yuan and colleagues

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

China
Health Services Accessibility / economics*
Health Services Accessibility / legislation & jurisprudence
Healthcare Disparities
Humans
Primary Health Care / economics*
Primary Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence
Public Health Administration
Universal Health Insurance / economics
Universal Health Insurance / legislation & jurisprudence*

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International