In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of...

Township hospitals, which are an important link of the Chinese rural healthcare system, were affected by the successive socio-economic reforms since the 1980s. As a consequence, their utilization declined. From longitudinal data covering nine years (2000-2008) and 24 township hospitals randomly...

1989-2006 is a period of the start and the end of deregulation of Chinese health care sector and of disintegration of rural cooperative insurance system. During this period, the government health policy has turned healthcare providers all alike into profit seeking entities. Face to perverse...

Since 2003, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, a community-based health insurance, is gradually implemented in China, in order to increase the access of the poor to healthcare services, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures and avoid catastrophic health expenditures. The paper estimates the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of public health expenditure in developing countries. This is done through an econometric analysis of panel data for 61 countries. A special interest is devoted to the role of external financial constraints, on corruption and on two aspects of...

The sectors of coffee and cocoa represented in Côte d'Ivoire, before the political crisis, approximately 15% of the GDP and 40% of exports. The zones of production of these two cultures are in the forest area which is infected with malaria. The culture of these products is less constraining...

Les vastes réformes entreprises en Chine dans le cadre de ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler le « socialisme de marché » ont eu d’importantes répercussions sur le fonctionnement du système de santé. Cette communication se propose d’en analyser certains effets sur l’activité et la...

This study is the continuation of a study led in the savannah area. Its purpose is to describe the economic situation of households subject to malaria risk in Côte d'Ivoire forested region, so as to provide economic indicators which could eventually help explain the expected differences in...

La décentralisation en Chine a placé les hôpitaux municipaux (HM) au cœur du système sanitaire en zone rurale. Nous avons utilisé les informations collectées dans un échantillon de 21 HM de la province de Shandong et dans les administrations concernées pour analyser par des méthodes...

Budgetary restrictions, and more generally, the lack of resources available in the health sector in Africa, have gradually led governments to undertake health care reforms, most notably by introducing user fees, as in the Côte d'Ivoire. But whilst it may be hoped that charging fees should lead...