第176场兴泉全球健康讲座

内容概要

The corruption occurred in China’s healthcare system has been extensively covered in the news media recently. Such corruption is, to a large extent, rooted in the flaws and mal-incentives in the healthcare system, among others. Despite the frequent reform measures mandated and implemented by the government, the lack of comprehensive and coordinated reforms, especially those designed to change the mal-incentive of the healthcare providers, have made these reform measures less effective. The seminar will first analyze the problems or flaws in the healthcare system, including the healthcare price distortion, and that the health care providers’ revenue-generation mechanism is in fact contradictory to the social goal of “promoting people’s health as the central task of the healthcare system.” To resolve these problems, the second part of the seminar will make some policy suggestions, such as dividing medical institutions into two categories and evaluating public health insurance programs based on the health indicators of the contracted resident population.

讲者介绍

Professor Xuejin ZUO holds a MA in economics from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) in 1982 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. He spent a postdoctoral year at the Princeton University and another year at the US Bureau of the Census as a visiting fellow, before he returned to China in 1991. He served as the Vice President, Executive Vice President and Acting President of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences during 1994-2012, and the director of the Institute of Economics at the Academy during 2000-2013. He has long been involved in the research on China’s population economics, focusing on the social security program reform and urban and regional development studies. He is currently the major investigator of the key research project “Deepening the reform to promote the common prosperity of all people” sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China, after finishing the key research project “the Economic Features and the Supporting System of an Aging Society” sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was the Vice President of China Population Association, on the Board of Directors of the China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, China Health Insurance Research Association, and China Association of Labor Economics, and was the President of Shanghai Association of Gerontology.