China health system reform needs more accountability

Press release from PLOS Medicine

2012-11-07

(Press-News.org) In this week's PLOS Medicine, David Hipgrave from the University of Melbourne, Australia and colleagues discuss health system reform in China and argue that parallel reforms in governance, financing, and accountability are also needed to ensure health equity.

### Funding: No specific funding was received to write this article.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The opinions expressed in this paper reflect the perspectives of the authors alone, and may not be inferred to represent the position of their parent institutions.

Citation: Hipgrave D, Guo S, Mu Y, Guo Y, Yan F, et al. (2012) Chinese-Style Decentralization and Health System Reform. PLoS Med 9(11): e1001337. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001337

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