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News on Healthcare in China

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A weighty issue

More obesity means more diabetes
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

Few would deny that China is enjoying a new heavyweight status in terms of its international influence. But as far as the tag goes, it is far less welcome one when used to refer to its people. Unfortunately, however, China is getting fatter ...

A long overdue flu shot

As China races to develop vaccines for swine flu, big profits look likely
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure. When it comes to swine flu, China is hoping to prove the old adage is as relevant as ever. Even though swine flu (A/H1N1) may not be as virulent as initially feared, Chinese health ...

China’s hospital utopia

Why Shenmu is the only place in the nation where it pays to be sick
Jun 12, 2009 (WiC 19)

There are few government policies in China likely to get the public’s blood pressure up as high as healthcare. Despite the country’s rapid economic progress over the past two decades, all but the most basic healthcare provision continues ...

A scourge of China

Why the government has launched a massive vaccination campaign
Jun 3, 2009 (WiC 22)

Going to school used to be a simple matter. Buy a backpack, grab a few pencils and head for the door. But in China, the academic survival kit is not complete without a vaccination against hepatitis B, a virus that can cause lifelong ...

Tikka to Tamiflu

A Chinese spice to ward off the flu
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

Even a global pandemic can have a silver lining. In China, news of the latest flu strain H1N1 will not unduly perturb growers of the star aniseed spice. As cultivators of the core ingredient in leading anti-flu drugs like Tamiflu, they will ...

Wish we weren’t here

Mexicans bear the brunt of swine flu response
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

As far as Mao was concerned, enemies of the state could come in all shapes and sizes. Take the Kill a Sparrow campaign – the best known of a series of measures designed to counter the Four Pests in the late 1950s – in which citizens banged ...

Yin, yang and Porsches

Chinese medicine booms
Apr 30, 2009 (WiC 13)

Times are good,” says Huang Xin. Evidently they are. Huang, a Chinese medicine doctor, says he is looking to purchase his third Porsche in less than a year. He told China Daily: “People saved hard before the downturn, and they now have less ...

How China proposes to fix its healthcare system
Apr 17, 2009 (WiC 11)

Samuel Goldwyn, the Hollywood film producer, thought a hospital "no place to be sick.” Many Chinese patients have formed similar opinions. But their phobia is less a fear of scalpels and needles and more an anxiety at the rising cost of ...

An unhealthy system

Why China needs a massive reform of its healthcare system
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

Healthcare is a thorny political issue in most countries and it is no different in China. It is also a policy area in which Mao’s legacy was a positive one. Forty years ago, more than a million “barefoot doctors” (farmers, factory workers ...

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