Dear All:
I am publishing a lengthy textbook on China's Healthcare System and Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The book will be out in early January.
I co-wrote the book with Professor Gordon Liu at Peking University (PKU). Some of you may know Gordon from his time at UNC-Chapel Hill. Gordon and I taught a course on this material at the Guanghua School of Management at PKU for two years. The book is an outgrowth of that effort. We have also enlisted many of the top scholars studying China's healthcare system to help with the book.
I have a sample chapter from the book that deals specifically with the five thrusts of the 2009 healthcare reform. The material preceding the chapter lists the chapters and authors. Feel free to email me for sample chapter (burnsL@wharton.upenn.edu). The slides from the book are available from Cambridge to those adopting the book.
Two years ago, I published a book on India's Healthcare Industry (Cambridge University Press, 2014), after having taught a course on India's healthcare system at the Indian School of Business for three years. I am going to make the slides from that book similarly available through Cambridge Press.
For the past thirty years, I have taught a course on the US healthcare system at the Wharton School and (before that) the University of Arizona. Having taught on all three countries, I have become convinced that the systems of the world are more similar than different, and that they all face many of the same problems and issues.
As a result, I am now a lot more comfortable teaching sessions on "comparative health systems" and "global comparisons" in my healthcare classes. The China and India material have also provided the additional (and unanticipated) benefit of allowing me to engage my students from Asia. Hopefully you will find the resources that my colleagues and I have assembled helpful in your own efforts.
Best regards,
Lawton Robert Burns
Wharton School