Successes and challenges of China's health care reform: a four-decade perspective spanning 1985—2023

M Jakovljevic, H Chang, J Pan, C Guo, J Hui… - Cost Effectiveness and …, 2023‏ - Springer
Chinese health system remains the crucial one for understanding the wider healthcare
landscape across the Global South and in particular the leading Emerging Markets. Purpose …

The burden of travel for care and its influencing factors in China: an inpatient-based study of travel time

Q Wang, Q Jiang, Y Yang, J Pan - Journal of Transport & Health, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Introduction Travel burden is a key dimension in conceptualizing geographic access to
health care. Travel time measured from the perspective of actual utilization provides …

Location-allocation modelling for rational health planning: Applying a two-step optimization approach to evaluate the spatial accessibility improvement of newly added …

J Pan, Y Deng, Y Yang, Y Zhang - Social Science & Medicine, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The inequity of access to healthcare services is still one of the most long-lasting problems
confronted by worldwide countries. Under such context where maldistributed healthcare …

The contributions of population distribution, healthcare resourcing, and transportation infrastructure to spatial accessibility of health care

L Chen, T Chen, T Lan, C Chen… - INQUIRY: The Journal of …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Population demand, healthcare resourcing, and transportation linkage are considered as
major determinants of spatial access to health care. Temporal changes of the 3 determinants …

Examining geographical accessibility to multi-tier hospital care services for the elderly: A focus on spatial equity

L Cheng, M Yang, J De Vos, F Witlox - Journal of Transport & Health, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Background With the rapid demographic shift towards an ageing society, it is a concerted
effort to facilitate elderly's access to healthcare in order to maintain and improve their quality …

Spatial accessibility of primary health care in China: a case study in Sichuan Province

X Wang, H Yang, Z Duan, J Pan - Social Science & Medicine, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Access to primary health care is considered a fundamental right and an important facilitator
of overall population health. Township health centers (THCs) and Community health centers …

Inequality of public health and its role in spatial accessibility to medical facilities in China

C Yin, Q He, Y Liu, W Chen, Y Gao - Applied Geography, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Due to the close links between quality of life standards and level of regional development, it
is important to gain an improved understanding of the factors that contribute to unequal …

Impact of China's referral reform on the equity and spatial accessibility of healthcare resources: a case study of Bei**g

C Lu, Z Zhang, X Lan - Social science & medicine, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In 2015, the Chinese government implemented referral reform in its hierarchical medical
system by adjusting the reimbursement rules of medical insurance, in order to guide …

Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China

R Su, X Huang, R Chen, X Guo - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Urbanization is intensifying in cities, accompanied by burgeoning inequalities, notably in the
healthcare sector. Limited research offers a granular examination of healthcare resource …

Inequalities of spatial primary healthcare accessibility in China

P Jia, Y Wang, M Yang, L Wang, X Yang, X Shi… - Social Science & …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A key step to the establishment of a tiered healthcare system is equitable access to basic
primary healthcare services for all. However, no quantitative research on the national status …