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"Volume 1 describes and discusses China's ambitious and complex journey of health care reform since 2009. The Chinese government has achieved universal health insurance coverage and has embarked on reforms of the service delivery system and provider payment methods that are aimed at controlling health expenditure growth and improving efficiency. This volume includes pilot and social experiments initiated by the government and researchers and their evaluations that have guided the formulation of health reform policies. It provides information on how to make reforms work at the local and provincial levels. The findings detailed in this volume will contribute to a global knowledge base in health care reforms."--Publisher's website

v. 1. Healthcare system reform and policy research in China -- v. 2. Healthcare system reform and policy research in Japan -- v. 3. Healthcare system reform and policy research in South Korea -- v. 4. Healthcare system reform and policy research in Taiwan.

"Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.2 million deaths in China are attributable to smoking. The death toll is expected to reach 2.2 million in 2030 if no smoking intervention programs are implemented. Taxation on tobacco products is one of the most effective tobacco control programs. This book addresses not only why China should raise cigarette tax, but also how to raise the tobacco tax, by providing decision makers with relevant research findings and quantitative estimate about the impact of raising the tobacco tax. It documents how these research findings were communicated to the Chinese government officials, and how, finally, tobacco tax was raised 10 years after China's ratification of the WHO Frame Work Convention on Tobacco Control Treaty. The purposes of this book are (1) to inform economists, public health professionals, and policymakers about the economic consequences of smoking, (2) to provide the essential economics (particularly related to taxation) and public health information upon which to build the specifics of the taxation policy that is adopted, (3) to identify barriers, challenges, and recommendations for the Chinese government, and (4) to describe how research findings can be disseminated and communicated successfully to Chinese government policy makers. It is a must read for researchers who are interested in China's tobacco control efforts and in how to communicating their findings to the policy makers. It could also be useful for tobacco control professionals, researchers and policy makers in other countries."--Provided by publisher

More than 320 million people in China smoke, which accounts for nearly one-third of all the smokers in the world. Almost two-thirds of adult Chinese men are smokers. On the other hand, tobacco production is a state-run enterprise that provides substantial earnings and tax revenue for the government. This paper addresses this policy dilemma by analyzing the impact of an additional cigarette tax on the entire economy. Economic analyses have shown that price elasticities of the demand for cigarettes range from –0.40 to –0.70. At a price elasticity of –0.54, for instance, a 40 cent increase in tax from 1.60 yuan per pack to 2.00 yuan tax per pack (raising the retail price from 4.00 yuan to 4.40 yuan) would reduce consumption by 4.57 billion packs, generate additional central government revenues of 24.74 billion Yuan and save 1.44 to 2.16 million lives. The increase in central government tax revenue would be twice as large as the total losses in industry revenue, tobacco farmers' incomes and local tax revenue (12.27 billion Yuan). Therefore, considering both the health and economic benefits, additional taxation on cigarettes in China would be a desirable public policy for the Chinese government to consider.