New Health Planning and Management Study Results from Ningbo University Described (Public-private partnerships in non-profit hospitals: Case study of China)

2019 SEP 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Health and Medicine - Health Planning and Management is now available. According to news reporting out of Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The gap between supply and demand for health care services is expanding rapidly in China. In order to resolve this problem, the government has implemented supply-side reforms in the health care sector by inviting private capital to increase supply quantity and improve quality.”

Funders for this research include K.C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University, Ministry of Education Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Ningbo University, “However, health care institutions have high complexity and particular needs, while non-profit hospitals have very strong public interests. This gives rise to complications in the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for health care services. In this paper, the authors have selected one case each from three different models of non-profit hospital PPP projects in the national PPP project database, operated by the Ministry of Finance, and compared how these projects were operated to identify the differences among them. A content analysis of the vital project documents is the primary analysis technique used for this comparison. Key issues investigated include reasons for model selection, requirements for private sectors and market competition level in different models, risk identification and sharing, design of payment mechanism, operation supervision, and performance appraisal of the project.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Based on the comparison, some key lessons and recommendations are discussed to act as a useful reference for future non-profit hospital PPP projects in China.”

For more information on this research see: Public-private partnerships in non-profit hospitals: Case study of China. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2019;():. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management can be contacted at: John Wiley & Sons LTD, the Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester PO19 8SQ, W Sussex, England.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting K. Wang, Faculty of Architectural, Civil Engineering and Environment, Ningbo University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Y. Ke and S. Sankaran.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2891. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the The International Journal of Health Planning and Management is: John Wiley & Sons LTD, the Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester PO19 8SQ, W Sussex, England.

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