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Article Evaluation

This article brings together a lot of interesting and important information. The introduction provides a concise and clear description of the Chinese healthcare system, however I think it could be expanded. I'm also unsure about the pertinence of the list of the international companies that have arrived in China. It seems random and doesn't fit in with much else in the article, so I'm not sure why it's in the introduction. I'm very glad the article mentions the "Healthy China 2020" initiative, however, I think mentioning this in the very short introduction is a bit strange. I suggest that it would probably deserve its own subsection, especially as we are getting closer to 2020 every day. The Chinese government promised quite a lot in the 2020 initiative, and an evaluation of the current progress would be very helpful and pertinent to the times. In general, there are many statistics that seem a bit outdated for 2019 (e.g. the one from 2005 under "resources"), and, assuming that there are newer statistics available, I think the current ones should be replaced. Lastly, I think the "Traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine" section has too much overlap with the "History" section, and it would be great if they could be combined or if the "Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine" section could focus more on the current state of affairs, rather than the history of TCM. SSchlhmr (talk) 22:22, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Two Sources

For future revisions, I wanted to share a BMJ series from June 2019 called “China's Health System Reforms: Review of 10 Years of Progress” and a Lancet article from September 2019 called “10 Years of Health-care Reform in China: Progress and Gaps in Universal Health Coverage.” 132.161.243.180 (talk) 00:44, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. The Lancet and BMJ are very good at covering Chinese health care.

Let me expand on your idea. In order to get a complete bibliography from The Lancet, I did the following Pubmed search:

("Lancet (London, England)"[Journal]) AND (((health care)[Title] OR healthcare )[Title] AND china[Title])

I then expanded it to some of the other core journals (and then eliminated the covid-19 papers because they crowded out everything else):

((((health care)[Title] OR healthcare )[Title] AND china[Title]) AND ("The New England journal of medicine"[Journal] OR "JAMA"[Journal] OR "JAMA internal medicine"[Journal] OR "Lancet"[Journal] OR "bmj clinical research ed"[Journal])) NOT (covid-19)

I searched for "health care OR healthcare" in the Title field because that seemed to give the best results. There's probably a MESH term for health care systems.

These are all high-quality WP:RS and in fact WP:MEDRS.

I realize that investor publications, and even investment company marketing reports, can have a lot of useful information, but they have a perspective of "What are the promising investment opportunities in China," and I'm not convinced that's the right focus for a WP entry, especially at that length. --Nbauman (talk) 18:48, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Revising Article

Hello, I am user Derek.hx08 and I choose this article as part of my class requirement to revise. In particular, I plan to update the information on the healthcare system. Also, I will focus more on the health equity issues of the current system. For more information, please feel free to check my personal user page.Derek.hx08 (talk) 03:39, 17 September 2021 (UTC)