Old and new Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme in China: the usefulness of a historical comparative perspective

References

• Babiarz, K. S., G.Miller, H.Yi, L.Zhang, and S.Rozelle. 2010. “New Evidence on the Impact of China's New Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme and Its Implications for Rural Primary Healthcare: Multivariate Difference-In-Difference Analysis.” British Medical Journal341: c5617. 10.1136/bmj.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bloom, G., and X. Y.Gu. 1997a. “Health Sector Reform: Lessons from China.” Social Sciences and Medicine45: 351–360.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bloom, G., and X. Y.Gu. 1997b. “Introduction to Health Sector Reform in China.” IDS Bulletin28 (1): 1–11.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown, P. H., A.De Brauw, and Y.Du. 2009. “Understanding Variation in the Design of China's New Co-operative Medical System.” The China Quarterly198: 304–329.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown, P., and C.Theoharides. 2009. “Health-Seeking Behavior and Hospital Choice in China's New Co-operative Medical System.” Health Economics18: 47–64.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bryant, J. H.1978. “Community Health Workers: The Interface Between Communities and Health Care Systems.” WHO Chronicle32: 144–148.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cai, T. X.2009. “新中国成立以来我国农村合作医疗的发展历程 [The History of the Development of the Rural Co-operative Medical Care System since the Foundation of PRC].” Literature of Chinese Communist Party No. 3 pp. 20–26.
   Google Scholar
• Central Political Bureau. 1978. “关于湘乡县减轻农民不合理负担的调查报告 [Report on Reducing the Farmer's Unreasonable Financial Burden in Xiangxiang County].” Document No. 37, 23 June 1978. Cited in Wu, S., 2005, p. 4; see also, People's Daily, July 5, 1.
   Google Scholar
• Cheng-Chung, L.1988. “European Co-operativism in Chinese Perspective.” Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics59 (3): 369–377.
   Google Scholar
• Cook, I., and J.Clegg. 2012. “Shared Visions of Co-operation at a Time of Crisis: The Gung Ho Story in China's Anti-Japanese Resistance.” In The Hidden Alternative: Co-operative Values, Past, Present and Future, edited by A.Webster, A.Brown, D.Stewart, J. K.Walton, and L.Shaw, 327–346. Helsinki: United Nations University Press.
   Google Scholar
• CPC Central Committee and State Council. 2002. 中共中央国务院关于进一步加强农村卫生工作的决定 [The CPC Central Committee and the State Council ‘s Decision on Further Strengthening the Rural Health Work] CPC Central Committee and State Council Document No. 13. Beijing: CPC Central Committee and State Council.
   Google Scholar
• Crozier, M.1964. Le phénomène bureaucratique [The Bureaucratic Phenomenon]. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 320 pp
   Google Scholar
• Dahf. 1980. “Department of Agriculture, Health and Finance, Together with State Administration of Medicine ‘Code of Conduct of RCMS’.”
   Google Scholar
• Decker, S.2013. “The Silence of the Archives: Business History, Post-Colonialism and Archival Ethnography.” Management and Organizational History8: 155–173.
   Google Scholar
• Department of Health. 1965. “关于把卫生工作重点放到农村的报告 [Report Prioritizing Primary Level Medical Services to Rural Areas].” 21 September 1965.
   Google Scholar
• Department of Health. 1976. “Conference Report, 15 June to 23 June 1976.” Cited in: Xia, X., 2003, p. 110.
   Google Scholar
• Dong, C., K. T.Kam, Z.Lifeng, and Z.Yuhong. 2013. “Will China's Co-operative Medical System Fail Again? Insight from Farmer Satisfaction Survey.” Health Promotion International. 10.1093/heapro/dat032.
   Google Scholar
• Douglas, M.1987. How Institutions Think. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Fairbank, J. K.1998. China: A New History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fairbank, J. K., and A.Feuerwerker, eds. 1986. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 13, Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gao, S., and F.Chi. 1996. The Development of China's Non Governmentally and Privately Operated Economy. Beijing: Languages Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gertler, P., and J.Gruber. 2002. “Insuring Consumption Against Illness.” The American Economic Review92 (1): 51–70.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gherardi, S., and A.Strati. 1988. “The Temporal Dimension in Organizational Studies.” Organization Studies9: 149–164.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Greenwood, A., and A.Bernardi. 2014. “Understanding the Rift, the (Still) Uneasy Bedfellows of History and Organization Studies.” Organization. 10.1177/1350508413514286.
   Google Scholar
• Ho, D. Y. F.1978. “The Concept of Man in Mao-TseTung's Thought.” Psychiatry41: 391–402.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Horn, J. S.1975. “Community Action Pays Off.” World Health Organization, December: 22–25.
   Google Scholar
• Huang, S. M.1988. “Transforming China's Collective Health Care System: A Village Study.” Social Science and Medicine27: 879–888.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jamison, D. T., J. R.Evans, T.King, I.Porter, and N.Prescott. 1984. China: The Health Sector. Washington, DC: World Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Jepperson, R. L.1991. “Institutions, Institutional Effects and Institutionalism.” In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, edited by Powell, and DiMaggio, 143–163. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kieser, A.1994. “Why Organization Theory Needs Historical Analyses and How This Should Be Performed.” Organization Science5 (4): 608–620.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klotzbücher, S., P.Lässig, Q.Jiangmei, and S.Weigelin-Schwiedrzik. 2010. “What is New in the ‘New Rural Co-operative Medical System’? An Assessment in One Kazak County of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.” The China Quarterly, , Special Section on Social Insurance in China201: 38–57.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kornai, J., and Q.Yingyi, eds. 2009. Market and Socialism: In the Light of the Experiences of China and Vietnam. IEA. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Lambo, T. A.1980. “Politics, Ideology, and Health: Reflexions Arising from a Study Tour of the People's Republic of China by Six African Ministers of Health.” World Health Forum1 (1): 5–7.
   Google Scholar
• Landsberger, S. R., and M.van der Heijden. 2009. Chinese Posters. Munich: Prestel.
   Google Scholar
• Li, Y. A.1985. “Country Physician.” World Health, January/February, 4–5.
   Google Scholar
• Liu, Y.2004. “Development of the Rural Health Insurance System in China.” Health and Policy Planning19 (3): 159–165.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mao, Z.1956. “高级农业生产合作社示范章程 [Model Guidelines on Agricultural Production Co-operatives].” 30 June 1956.
   Google Scholar
• Mao, Z.1958. “中共中央关于在农村建立人民公社问题的决议 [Decision on Setting up the People's Commune in Rural China].” 29 August 1958.
   Google Scholar
• Mao, Z.1960. 关于卫生工作的指示 [Instructions for Public Health]. 18 March 1960.
   Google Scholar
• Mao, Z.1965. “中央关于卫生工作的指示 [Directive on Public Health].” 26 June 1965 (quoted in Mao 1996, 80).
   Google Scholar
• Mao, Z.1968. “从“赤脚医生”的成长看医学教育革命的方向:上海市的调查报告 [The Analysis of the Reform of Medical Education from the Perspective of the Growth of the Barefoot Doctor: An Investigation Report in Shanghai].” Redflag Journal3: 1–3.
   Google Scholar
• Mao, Z.1991. 毛泽东选集 [Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung]. Vol. 3, 2nd ed.Peking: People's Publishing House.
   Google Scholar
• Merton, R. K.1936. “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action.” American Sociological Review1 (6): 894–904.
   Google Scholar
• Mintzberg, H.1993. Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
   Google Scholar
• Powell, W. W., and P. J.DiMaggio, eds. 1991. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• PRC. 1978. Constitution of the People's Republic of China.
   Google Scholar
• Prescott, N., and D. T.Jamison. 1984. “Health Sector Finance in China.” World Health Statistics Quarterly37: 387–397.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Qin, L., S.Pan, C.Wang, and Z.Jiang. 2012. “Adverse Selection in China's New Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme.” China Agricultural Economic Review4 (1): 69–83.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rowlinson, M., J.Hassard, and S.Decker. 2014. “Strategies for Organizational History: A Dialogue Between Historical Theory and Organization Theory.” Academy of Management Review. 10.5465/amr.2012.0203.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scott, W. R.1995. Institutions and Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Scott, W. R.2003. “Institutional Carriers: Reviewing Modes of Transporting Ideas Over Time and Space and Considering Their Consequences.” Industrial and Corporate Change12: 879–894.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shenkar, O.1996. “The Firm as a Total Institution: Reflections on the Chinese State Enterprise.” Organisation Studies17: 885–907.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Skeet, M.1984. “Community Health Workers: Promoters or Inhibitors of Primary Health Care?” World Health Forum5: 291–295.
   Google Scholar
• Suchman, M. C.1995. “Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches.” Academy of Management Review20: 571–610.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tsoukas, H.1994. “Socio-Economic Systems and Organisational Management: An Institutional Perspective on the Socialist Firm.” Organisation Studies15: 21–45.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• UNDP. 2013. China Human Development Report. 2013: Sustainable and Liveable Cities: Toward Ecological Urbanisation. Beijing: Compiled by United Nations Development Program.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations. 2013. China's Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals 2013 Report. Beijing: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
   Google Scholar
• Wadwani, R. D., and M.Bucheli. 2013. Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Wagstaff, A., and M.Lindelow. 2005. “Can Insurance Increase Financial Risk? The Curious Case of Health Insurance in China.” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper3741.
   Google Scholar
• Wagstaff, A., M.Lindelowb, G.Junc, X.Lingc, and Q.Junchengcet. 2009. “Extending Health Insurance to the Rural Population: An Impact Evaluation of China's New Co-operative Medical Scheme.” Journal of Health Economics28: 1–19.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang, S.2009. “Adapting by Learning the Evolution of China's Rural Health Care Financing.” Modern China35 (4): 370–404.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang, H., W.Yip, L.Zhang, L.Wang, and W.Hsiao. 2005. “Community-Based Health Insurance in Poor Rural China: The Distribution of Net Benefits.” Health Policy and Planning20 (6): 366–374.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weber, M.1951. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism. Clencoe, IL: The Free Press.
   Google Scholar
• Whiting, S. H.2000. Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• WHO. 1973. Report of WHO Study Mission to People's Republic of China. Geneva: World Health Organisation.
   Google Scholar
• WHO. 1974. “Round Table Discussion: WHO Visits China.” World Health, September, 8–15.
   Google Scholar
• WHO. 1978. Organisation and Functioning of the Health Services in China: Report on Two WHO Study Missions to the People's Republic of China 1973 and 1974. Geneva: World Health Organisation.
   Google Scholar
• WHO. 1988. “Community Health Workers: Strengthening Community Health Workers for Health for All.” Weekly Epidemiological Health Record63 (35): 265–268.
   Google Scholar
• WHO. 1989. “Co-operative Medical System and Barefoot Doctors in Rural China.” Bulletin of the World Health Organisation87 (4): 431–441.
   Google Scholar
• Xu, J.1997. “History of Health Economic Policy.” China Health and Economics10: 7–8.
   Google Scholar
• Yip, W., and W. C.Hsiao. 2009. “Non-Evidence-Based Policy: How Effective Is China's New Co-operative Medical Scheme in Reducing Medical Impoverishment?” Social Science & Medicine68 (2): 201–209.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Young, M. E.1989. “Impact of the Rural Reform on Financing Rural Health Services in China.” Health Policy11: 27–42.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yu, D.1992. “Changes in Health Care Financing and Health Status: The Case of China in the 1980s.” Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series, No. 34.
   Google Scholar
• Zeffane, R. M.1989. “Centralization or Formalization? Indifference Curves for Strategies of Control.” Organization Studies10: 327–352.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang, H. Y.1982. 公共卫生学 [Public Health]. Taipei: Taiwan Commercial Press.
   Google Scholar
• Zhang, K. N., Y. Q.Wen, and P.Liang, eds. 2002. 从赤脚医生到乡村医生 [From Barefoot Doctors to Village Doctors]. Yunnan City: Yunnan People's Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Zhu, N., Z.Ling, J.Shen, J. M.Lane, and S.Hu. 1989. “Factors Associated with the Decline of the Co-operative Medical System and Barefoot Doctors in Rural China.” Bulletin of the World Health Organisation87 (4): 431–441.
   Google Scholar