Author(s)

Yaru Zhao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ People's Government of Huangbao Town, Wangyi District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, 727001, China

Corresponding Author

Yaru Zhao

ABSTRACT

Taking time as a dimension, the evolution of the rural cooperative medical system since the establishment of the People's Republic of China can be roughly divided into three stages: the exploration and advancement when the system was first created, the disorder and predicament during the economic transition, and the development and improvement after becoming the market economy, where the overall process has shown a zigzagging and positive trend, and has been accompanied by the profound changes of the age and social situation. While there have been considerable achievements in China's rural cooperative medical system, problems such as the uneven benefits to participants, the low level of medical reimbursement, the complicated procedures and the urgent need for improvement of rural medical services are also objective realities. To improve and strengthen the rural cooperative medical system as well as to make the system fully effective, it is reasonable to adopt such measures as increasing policy publicity, appropriately expanding the scope of medical reimbursement, simplifying medical reimbursement procedures, and improving the level of rural medical services.

KEYWORDS

Rural cooperative medical system; realistic difficulties; response approaches

CITE THIS PAPER

Yaru Zhao, Historical Changes, Realistic Difficulties, and Response Approaches for Rural Cooperative Medical System in China. Social Medicine and Health Management (2023) Vol. 4: 34-41. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socmhm.2023.040505.

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