A Scoping Review of National Policies for Healthy Ageing in Mainland China from 2016 to 2020.

ABSTRACT: There remains limited literature to facilitate understanding of healthy ageing-related policies in China over the last five-year policy planning cycle. This study aims to characterise all relevant policies and identifies the policy gaps from a health system perspective. A scoping review framework was used. A thorough search for healthy ageing-related policies was performed on the websites of all government ministries affiliated with the Chinese State Council. Essential information was extracted and mapped to an integrated framework of the World Health Organization's Health System Building Blocks and the Chinese 13^th Five-Year Plan for Healthy Ageing. A total of 12471 policy documents were identified, while 99 policy documents were included. There were 14 ministries involved in t

SUBMITTER: Ye P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8356098 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature