04.30.19
New Analysis: Are Social Enterprises Charities?
Using the example of “mutual aid health communities” in China, contributor Caitlin Schultz digs into the questions surrounding entities known as “social enterprises”—hybrid organizations that do not fit neatly into either for-profit or non-profit...
04.30.19
Business, Charity, or Something Else?
Around the world, the concept of “social enterprise” has blurred the line between doing business and doing good. Social enterprise seeks to combine traditional for-profit business practices with products or services that primarily aim to benefit the...
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04.12.16Scalped: At China's Creaking Hospitals, Illegal Ticket Touts Defy Crackdown
Reuters
Those tickets will get a patient in front of a doctor in two days, compared with a wait that can be up to a fortnight.
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12.01.15
Life After Death
A family mourns the loss of a husband and father, who died after a decade-long fight against silicosis contracted while working in China’s gold mines. He was one of an estimated 6 million workers in China who have some form of pneumoconiosis, the...
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01.05.15Falling Through the Cracks of China’s Health-Care System
Wall Street Journal
China says 95% of its 1.34 billion people are covered by medical insurance. That should have included Zhao Guomei, whose struggle with a rare but treatable disease shows how the system is failing for millions of China’s workers.
Sinica Podcast
04.26.13
Healthcare in China
from Sinica Podcast
The state of healthcare in China is in many ways better than it was in the era of the barefoot doctors, with average life expectancy in the country now trailing the United States by only three years and morbidity rates far lower too. But while even...
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07.22.12Violence Against Doctors on the Rise
Economist
AFTER a growing number of attacks on medical staff in China, doctors and nurses are finding hospitals increasingly unsafe. According to figures from the Ministry of Health, more than 17,000 “incidents” aimed at hospitals and their staff occurred in...