Research Data from Huazhong University of Science and Technology Update Understanding of Health Insurance (China’s Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme:…

Research Data from Huazhong University of Science and Technology Update Understanding of Health Insurance (China's Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme: a type of health insurance or a type of health cooperative?)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on Health Insurance. According to news originating from Wuhan, People's Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "The Cooperative Medical Scheme (CMS) was popular in rural China in the 1960s and 1970s, having garnered praise from the World Bank and World Health Organization as an unprecedented example of a successful health care model in a low-income developing country. However, the CMS almost collapsed in the 1980s."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, "Based on its historical origins and main activities, we think the CMS functioned as a health cooperative rather than a health insurance scheme. Perhaps, however, the importance to the CMS of cooperation between institutions has been overestimated. Overlooked, yet equally important, has been the cooperation between health workers and farmers to target health-related risk factors associated with agricultural work and ways of life. The 'cooperative' character of the CMS includes two aspects: cooperative institutions and cooperative behaviour. Although the CMS collapsed in China, similar schemes are flourishing elsewhere in the world."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "In the future, in-depth analysis of these schemes is required."

For more information on this research see: China's Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme: a type of health insurance or a type of health cooperative? Primary Health Care Research & Development, 2016;18(2):194-199. Primary Health Care Research & Development can be contacted at: Cambridge University Press, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473. (Cambridge University Press - www.cambridge.org; Primary Health Care Research & Development - journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PHC)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from F. Wang, Dept. of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China (see also Health Insurance).

The publisher's contact information for the journal Primary Health Care Research & Development is: Cambridge University Press, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473.

Keywords for this news article include: Wuhan, Health Insurance, Risk and Prevention, People's Republic of China.

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