The privatisation of professional knowledge in the public health care sector in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3606832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jingqing Yang (0000-0002-7507-6929, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-28 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5172/hesr.2006.15.1.16 |
| OpenAlex | W2066331030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper begins with a review of the Chinese government’s reforms on the personnel system in the public health care sector since 1978. These policies were designed to give greater economic autonomy to the public health facilities and public doctors in order to stimulate productivity, but failed to satisfy the medical workers. As public employees whose professional knowledge and skills have long been considered as public property, Chinese doctors have been engaged in ‘unofficial conduct’ to increase income. This ‘conduct’ – which includes taking ‘red packets’, ‘drug kickbacks’ and ‘moonlighting’ – is argued to be an unofficial form of the privatisation of professional knowledge and skills
Autonomy · Business · China · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Political science · Productivity · Project commissioning · Public health · Public relations · Public sector · Publishing · Dental Education, Practice, Research · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |