China Health Insurance News

Traditional medical treatments are making a comeback. More and more people are using naturopathic, homeopathic and other alternative forms of “medical” treatments in the modern world, however no traditional therapy is making the kind of impact around the world that is associated with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and there may be a reason for this. One of the most well known treatment methods of TCM is acupuncture, a therapy that involves the insertion of thin needles into specific nerve bundles or “chi” points. This form of therapy has been widely lauded and used in China and other North Asian countries for centuries as a way to relieve pain and promote overall healthiness. However there has never been any conclusive proof that acupuncture is anything other than an extremely effective placebo treatment.

In an effort to promote safe sex, China’s Ministry of Health issued an order on August 1^st that requires all hotels, resorts and public bath houses to provide prophylactics and educational pamphlets free of charge to all their customers. The pamphlets are meant to raise awareness of the seriousness of HIV/AIDS, which is already a big concern and growing even more quickly. Chinese health officials estimate that the number of unreported HIV/AIDS cases in China may be as many as 650,000.

As China’s central government institutes a series of plans to improve health care, the focus remains on providing only basic services and limited insurance coverage to China’s impoverished urban residents. The reforms are no help to expatriates living in China’s major cities, because little is done to improve the health facilities that are already in place. Even though there is a handful of high quality hospitals for foreigners, expatriates are forced to choose between inferior care at a local hospital and the burden of high medical bills from a foreign clinic.

Traditional Chinese Medicine has a history that extends back thousands of years. TCM has treatments that include, among other weird and wonderful medicines, fly eyeball soup, tiger penis, dried cuttlefish and reindeer horn infusion, and wonderfully scary looking needles; and although many western scientists view the healing powers of TCM with skepticism, millions of people around the swear that Chinese medicine works. People who are committed to receiving all their medical treatments with TCM actually claim that it’s ability to cure is better than many of the treatments that they are able to receive in the West. Are there truth to these claims, and if there are, can they be supported by science? The following stories are supposedly true, but you are going to have to make up your mind by yourself.

The state of healthcare in China has been changing since the 1980’s when the government implemented a switch from public healthcare services to a private healthcare system. The current position of the Chinese government is directed toward curative medicine over preventative. This means that while China may have a large healthcare infrastructure they are not directing their energy towards preventing illness and disease but rather, trying to solve and cope with issues as they arise.

China may be going through one of the biggest economic booms in history, and the country may have developed into a world class superpower, however, the PRC government is having a hard time providing health care services to many of its citizens, especially those located in rural areas.

Neurological diseases and conditions have received a lot of attention in the last few weeks. The newest development is a patch that has the potential to treat early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The patch, which is similar to those used by smokers in an effort to quit cigarettes, is applied to an individual’s skin daily. The patch, which is called Neupro, delivers the drug Rotigontine transdermally over the course of 24 hours, giving PD sufferer’s an easier treatment option when compared to oral medications or injections.

We all know that cancer is one of the biggest issues in the modern world, but what will the future hold in terms of the development of the disease?

With increased access to the world wide web, China is experiencing a form of addiction that has only recently become a mainstream issue. Internet addiction is becoming an increasingly high profile problem for many of the countries youth. According to reports from the China National Children’s Centre approximately 2.3 million people in the country suffer from a serious addiction to the internet

According to traditional Chinese beliefs you are what you eat. Chinese food therapy is the type of traditional Chinese medicine that aims to cure a person’s maladies purely by changing the food that they consume. The objective is to balance a person’s internal energy and regain full Yin/Yang composure. Different types of food and beverages have different Yin/Yang characteristics; everything that a person eats will fall into a yin/yang energy category. We have provided a food characteristic table below.