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Hong Kong's medical infrastructure consists of a mixed medical economy, with 12 private hospitals and more than 50 public hospitals. There are also polyclinics that offer primary care services, including dentistry.
Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world.[52] Because of its early health education, professional health services, and well-developed health care and medication system, Hongkongers enjoy an average 82-year-long life expectancy, which is the second highest in the world, and 2.94 infant mortality rate, the fourth lowest in the world.[53][54]
Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hong Kong has parallel public and private health systems that operate entirely separately and independently of each other.
Health care is provided directly by government out of tax revenue. Although the system may incorporate user charges, the bulk of the costs are borne out of taxation. If the tax system is truly progressive, as is the case in Hong Kong, then it will meet equity objectives. However, Hong Kong's narrow tax base and low tax rates make it difficult for the government to expand health spending without compromising the fiscal system. Moreover, the direct provision of health care by government is usually inefficient and unresponsive to patient needs. In Hong Kong direct government funding provides most of the finance for the hospital system, although elements of the other systems also coexist side by side with this system. Outpatient treatment is mainly carried out in the private sector.
The most significant point in favour of the existing system in Hong Kong is that it has a high degree of equity - no one is excluded from health care because of cost. The disadvantages of the government-funding approach are widely recognised.
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