In order to deal with these issues in medical system, the central government planned to reform the medical system in China. In the second half of 2005, the central government organized a conference on health care system reform. This meeting aims to clarify goals and strategies of health care reform, and invited experts from government sector, universities and international organizations to join in this conference (Zou 2012). In 2006, the State Council set up a specific team working for the latest round of medical system reform. This team is responsible for drawing up overall strategies and specific policy measures of health care reform, and all team members come from public sectors related to health and finance (Zheng et al 2010). One year
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According to the classifications of Marsh and Rhodes (1992), actors engaging in medical system reform could be divided into five forms of networks. These networks have different characteristics and there are different kinds of relations between them.
First of all, central government sectors compose the policy community. This community just has a limited number of actors and would exclude other public sectors irrelevant to health care. Actors of the community depend on each other and exchange resources through frequent interactions. Even though they have different preferences and interest, they have potential to achieve a policy agreement and coordinate with each other in policy making. In the process of medical system reform, they continuingly negotiate with each other, and intend to achieve the common goal through cooperation and …show more content…
It is obvious that there are interactions between different actors in policy making and other social entities could influence the policy decisions of the central government. These actors are allocated to different networks based on their own interests and the relations between them. Policy makers not only actively promote coordination between actors in policy community, but also cooperate with actors of other networks, in order to improve the reasonability and effectiveness of health care reform. In the policy making process, actors of different networks actively express their opinions and intend to influence policy decisions. Policies on medical system reform are formed by interactions between various actors of different forms of
According to the classifications of Marsh and Rhodes (1992), actors engaging in medical system reform could be divided into five forms of networks. These networks have different characteristics and there are different kinds of relations between them.
First of all, central government sectors compose the policy community. This community just has a limited number of actors and would exclude other public sectors irrelevant to health care. Actors of the community depend on each other and exchange resources through frequent interactions. Even though they have different preferences and interest, they have potential to achieve a policy agreement and coordinate with each other in policy making. In the process of medical system reform, they continuingly negotiate with each other, and intend to achieve the common goal through cooperation and …show more content…
It is obvious that there are interactions between different actors in policy making and other social entities could influence the policy decisions of the central government. These actors are allocated to different networks based on their own interests and the relations between them. Policy makers not only actively promote coordination between actors in policy community, but also cooperate with actors of other networks, in order to improve the reasonability and effectiveness of health care reform. In the policy making process, actors of different networks actively express their opinions and intend to influence policy decisions. Policies on medical system reform are formed by interactions between various actors of different forms of