Abstract
Reform of public hospitals has become a critical social area of research among management, politics, and healthcare scholars in China. By exploring the main managerial ideology of this area, this chapter looks at the history of China’s healthcare system development and the current physicians’ survival conditions. In addition, authors compare the healthcare systems among China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The chapter also explores how to improve hospital-physician relationship from analyzing physicians’ survival conditions and vocational interest as a matter of ongoing concern for all participants in this industry, the government, hospital managers and healthcare authorities are discussed, and further, identifies the relationship between public and private hospital by examining China’s healthcare market. Finally, policy-making and managerial recommendations are given.
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All data in Sect. 9.3 come from the project, and the project was approved and funded by Sun Yat-Sen University and run by the authors. The authors and colleagues visited 17 hospitals in southern China, and collected over 2000 questionnaires from the staffs of these hospitals. The whole project takes over one year (Sep. 2014–Oct. 2015).
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This chapter was supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” at Sun Yat-sen University (project number: 1409071), and funded in part by Lingnan (University) College and China Institute of Economic Transformation and Opening, Sun Yat-sen University.
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Wang, X., Wu, H. (2018). Ideology for Reform of Public Hospitals in China. In: Foo, C. (eds) Diversity of Managerial Ideology. The Chinese Management Book-of-Readings Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7772-2_9
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