• 1. National Institute of Hospital Administration, National Health Commission, Beijing 100044, P. R. China;
  • 2. School of Pharmacy, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350004, P. R. China;
  • 3. School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, P. R. China;
GUO Shuyan, Email: guoshuyan@niha.org.cn
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In the context of actively coping with aging, China has introduced a series of health care integration policies. Using the advocacy coalition framework theory, this paper aims to analyze the process of health care integration policy changes in China from three dimensions: policy beliefs, external events and policy learning. The policy subsystem of health care integration in China includes two coalitions: top-down cascade promotion and bottom-up absorption and radiation. External events and policy learning triggered policy change, where policy learning included endogenous learning within the coalition and exogenous learning between the coalitions. A policy impasse occurs when the two advocacy coalitions are at odds, and policy brokers and professional forums can get rid of the policy impasse. In the process of policy change in China’s health care integration, the two major advocacy coalitions have reached a certain consensus. It is recommended to alleviate the problems in the integration of health care by strengthening the external factors in the change of health care policy, enhancing the policy learning in the change of health care policy, and making full use of the information resources in the change of health care policy, so as to promote the high-quality development of the integration of health care.

Citation: GUO Jianming, YANG Wei, DONG Siping, GUO Shuyan. Research on the change of Chinese health care integration policy from the perspective of advocacy coalition. West China Medical Journal, 2021, 36(12): 1764-1769. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202109045 Copy

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