Health Policy & Politics (HPP), Volume 1, Issue 1 (2023)

China's healthcare has undergone several transformations. For the past 15 years, China has tried to expand insurance and improve access to appropriate pharmaceuticals. These efforts; however, have been undermined by inadequate funding and decentralization of responsibility to the provinces, leading to uneven implementation of reform throughout the country. In this article, we present a brief history of the Chinese health system and then present findings from a systematic literature review focused on the implementation of the 2009 reform.

This paper discusses several political and policy ramifications related to healthcare access for individuals in the US, specifically for undocumented and legally present immigrants in the United States. The political and policy ramifications of the research in this article center around the need for comprehensive healthcare reform to ensure that all individuals, regardless of immigration status, have access to healthcare and health services. The argument expands into the effect of healthcare worker shortages, insurance status, and immigration status.

We determine how enrollment in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over an extended period of time affects medical and dental care use, health status and academic achievement. In contrast to prior research, which focuses on the program's effects during infancy and early childhood, we examine CHIP enrollment among elementary and middle school students.

One of the major public health side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was its contribution to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their associated risk factors such as obesity. At the same time, public health researchers became increasingly cognizant of how the commercial determinants of health contributed to this challenge. In this article, we contribute to this literature by discussing how major beverage and fast-food companies took advantage of this situation through a variety of strategies that essentially increased their profits at a time of worsening COVID-19 and NCD conditions.