title: Global implications of China's healthcare reform.
abstract: The ongoing healthcare reform in China has a powerful spillover effect beyond the health sector and the borders of China. A successful completion of the Chinese reform will offer a new model for social justice development, shift the global economy toward sustainability and create a new hub for science and technology in medical and health science. However, reforming the healthcare system in the most populated country is a daunting task. China will not live up to its promise, and all the potentials may end with hype not hope if coherent national strategies are not constructed and state-of-the-art navigation is not achieved with staggering domestic and global challenges. The cost of failure will be immensely high, socioeconomic costs for Chinese and an opportunity cost for the world as a whole. A full appreciation of the global implications of China's healthcare reform is crucial in keeping China receptive toward good practices evidence-approved elsewhere and open minded to fulfill its international obligations. More critically, the appreciation yields constructive engagements from global community toward a joint development and global prosperity. The current report provides a multiple disciplinary assessment on the global implications of the healthcare reform in China.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Shenglan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D002681:China; D057217:Economic Development; D014943:Global Health; D018166:Health Care Reform; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D012935:Social Justice; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: China; economy; global health; healthcare reform; social justice