Financing Health Care in China-Implications of Some Recent Developments

Implications of Some Recent Developments PGK Panikar After Liberation the Chinese leadership showed an astute understanding of the nature of health problems and evolved ways of resolving them within the constraints imposed by limited resources. Some of those innovations, the reliance on non-pecuniary incentives to motivate the masses to get involved in preventive health programmes, a multi-tiered network of medical care facilities, appropriate skill and training for medical personnel at different points, all have financial implications which are equally relevant to other developing countries.