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Healthcare In China. Elisha Lowe. Chinese Healthcare Reform. Implications of Urbanization on Health. China has just passed a landmark: its urban population of more than 680 million people outnumbered its rural residents for the first time in January, 2012. Shanghai. Beijing.
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Healthcare In China Elisha Lowe
Implications of Urbanization on Health China has just passed a landmark: its urban population of more than 680 million people outnumbered its rural residents for the first time in January, 2012 Shanghai Beijing
Healthcare In China Learned from Solvay: The Chinese diet is full of high sodium highly processed food Incidence of renal disease increases 3% each year in U.S 20% in China They sell more dialysis technology in Asia Learned from Cigna: In China, about 5% of the GDP is spent on healthcare per year compared to 16% in the US It's a single payer, publicly funded system that provides universal healthcare via a 14% payroll tax China falls behind the U.S in healthcare data capturing, healthcare information exchanges, and standardized diagnostic codes