China Holds Seminar on Health Sector ReformGovernment officials and health policy experts from China and several international organizations are discussing reform and development strategies for China's health sector in the first decade of the 21st century.Participants of the Senior Policy Seminar on China's Health Sector Reform and Development Strategies will discuss topics such as relationship between the health sector and social and economic development, the role of the government and the market in health development, management of health care organizations, and health problems and solutions in rural areas. The discussion is expected to inspire the draft of a 2001-2005 plan for the development of China's health care sector. "As a developing country, China has to confront the key issue of how to provide people a multi-level, highly-efficient and fair medical service with limited health care resources," Wang Longde, Vice Minister of Health, said at the seminar's opening ceremony. He noted that the government will have to reform the imbalanced layouts of health care resources as well as the efficiency of medical institutions. The three-day seminar is organized by the State Development Planning Commission, ministries of finance and health, the Research Office of the State Council, as well as the World Bank and the United Nations Children's Fund. |
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