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This chapter’s main goal is to understand the Chinese approach to health governance as a tool to achieve global governance, examining the Chinese health sector while focusing on: (i) the evolution of the Chinese healthcare system from 1978 until the present day, and major health reforms undergone since 2009 until now; (ii) the public policies applied under the “Healthy China 2030” plan of action; and (iii) the Health Silk Road—integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—describing its goals to evince the geo-economic contours of the initiative, especially after the emergence of COVID-19. As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) assumes a new pattern of globalization, the analysis will follow this premise, using a qualitative methodology based on hermeneutics and literature review.
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This work was supported by the doctoral grant SFRH/BD/151133/2021 from Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. and Macau Scientifical and Cultural Centre and by the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (UIDB/04058/2020) + (UIDP/04058/2020) funded by national funds from Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.
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Santiago, A.R. (2023). Chinese Health Strategy: A Tool Towards Global Governance. In: Duarte, P.A.B., Leandro, F.J.B.S., Galán, E.M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6700-9_14
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