Health sector reform and reproductive health services in poor rural China

Health sector reform and reproductive health services in poor rural China.

This paper describes and analyses the major reforms and changes that have occurred in the rural health sector of China. Key findings from a number of empirical studies on reproductive health service provision and utilization are summarized in order to assess the implications for reproductive health services of the ongoing health reform. The focus of this paper is what has actually been happenin...

Introduction: Health Sector Reform in Africa and its impact on Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

Introduction One of the key themes of this book is whether and to what extent health sector reform (HSR) in Africa has in effect caused more harm than good in relation to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This introduction explores the dominant HSR movement, reviews the African context within which reforms have been implemented and begins to examine the interrelationship between...

The Impact of Socio-economic Reform in Rural China on Reproductive Health Services

Introduction to Health Sector Reform in China

One of China's great successes during the period of the command economy was to provide a large majority of its population with access to basic health services at an affordable price. This contributed to major improvements in the life of rural people. This issue of the IDS Bulletin asks whether China will be able to maintain cost-effective rural health services as it transforms itself into a mar...

Health sector reforms: implications for sexual and reproductive health services.

These reforms have also been affected by changes in national and international allocation of resources to the health sector, the attribution of responsibility for health, and the increasing commodification of health in almost all countries [2]. Policy changes, some progressive, others retrogressive, wide-ranging biomedical and social research, and efforts to improve sexual and reproductive heal...