"The 33 cases in this book explore financial management and accounting in a variety of healthcare settings. Providing relevant background details, each case presents a financial management decision or challenge for students to analyze and then recommend an appropriate course of action."

In this paper we discuss health care provision in developing countries within a two-track framework of public-private cooperation. China is presented as a case study to illustrate the difficulties facing a developing country that adopts a market-driven health care strategy in the context of...