The role of legislation in health services development (with particular reference to China and Australia).
The World Health Organization has supported initiatives in many countries including China to improve the effectiveness and quality of legislation as a form of technical support to help achieve and consolidate the global strategy of health for all by the year 2000. These initiatives are reviewed. Traditionally China did not rely much on legislation as a technique to underpin and implement the organization and delivery of health services, but it appears that more use will be made of it in the future for a number of reasons, including the implementation of the momentous decision of the National People's Congress in October 1992 to move towards a 'socialist market economy'.
School of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales, Australia.
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