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| | Mental Health Financing of Chinese Psychiatry | | 2005-2-22 0:50:18 Institute of Mental Health, Peking Unive Liu Jin M.D, Ph.D |  Mental Health Financing
There are budget allocations for mental health.
The country spends 2.35 % of the total health budget on mental health.
The primary sources of mental health financing in descending order are out of pocket expenditure by the patient or family, social insurance and tax based.
Less than 15% of the population are entitled to comprehensive health insurance that covers psychiatric disorders. Most hospitals charge fees, and the patient or family pays, especially when insured, or sometimes the work unit. For long-stay patients, two third of the expenses are borne by the persons/family and the remaining by the state. Insurance covererage of mental health issues is variable. Some like those covering government employees are generous (so unemployment is doubly hard on ill people), others like those for people in the country side (funded from pooled resources of the community) are very basic. Economic reforms have partially diminished many insurance sytems and pushed up health care costs as health institutions in an effort to generate finances opt to provide expensive services. Inpatient care is expensive (one month fee - approximately $100 is equivalent of average wage of 4 months in urban areas and 8 months in rural areas).
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Ministry of Health, (2003) No.013
ICP:No.040657