Politics
The Ministry of Health of the State …show more content…
“Services delivered in the vertical mode are funded directly by municipal governments and most services are free or with minimal fees. For example, community based healthcare centers had been primarily responsible for family planning and health education; today they provide services such as free basic medical care for the poor, and other primary healthcare that older residents can easily access, along with special programs such as chronic disease treatment.” (Xu, 2011)
Economics
In China the poverty rate for the elderly population is “nearly a quarter of elderly people in China live below the poverty line according to a new comprehensive survey conducted by …show more content…
There are different forms of systems that are used for the elderly population in China for those that have retired and those that are planning on retiring. “A formal system, under which urban employees receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and individuals in the informal sector rely on family support in old age and have much longer working lives.”(Wang, 2011) With the elderly family members sometimes leaning on the other members in their families, which tends to be another key contributor to them living in poverty, and leaving to seek better employment. With the older population continuing to work tends to put a strain on their health and tends to lead to major health issues and higher medical expenses. There is also a big difference between the times men and women retire from work. “A strong relationship between health status and labor supply in rural areas is observed, indicating the potential role that improvements in access to health care may play in extending working lives and also providing some basis for a common perception that older rural residents tend to work as long as they are physically capable.”(Wang, 2011) But with the retirement age being at 60-65, and their being such a high volume of ageing people in China is having a reverse affect being that the working population pays for the social services and health care that