Governance challenges in China’s urban health care system – the role of stakeholders

Abstract: The article at hand aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of problems in China’s urban health system governance by comparing levels of influence and the roles of different stakeholder groups – government bodies, public, private and illegal health care providers, patients and their social networks, paying institutions, social organizations, and the civil society – in the production and reproduction of the layout of the health care system in the city of Guangzhou. Primary data was collected in several fieldwork studies in Guangzhou City between December 2006 and January 2009 and includes 27 in-depth interviews with administrative officials, health care providers and NGO representatives as well as 70 in-depth interviews and a quantitative survey with 450 rural-urban migrants. We use the actor-centred institutionalism approach by Mayntz and Scharpf (1995) and Scharpf (2000) which we combine with Archer’s (1995) morphogenetic approach in order to develop an analysis tool. The f.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2672

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Governance challenges in China’s urban health care system – the role of stakeholders ; volume:65 ; number:2 ; year:2011
Erdkunde ; 65, Heft 2 (2011)

Creator
Bork, Tabea
Kraas, Frauke
Yuan, Yuan

DOI
10.3112/erdkunde.2011.02.02
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281808031.522054092734
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Bork, Tabea
  • Kraas, Frauke
  • Yuan, Yuan

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