Health and Education in China
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- Created on: 23-05-17 11:05
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- Health and Education in China
- Health
- Barefoot doctors
- One million trained for 6 months and then sent into villages , emphasis on practical skills
- aim was to prevent young medical intellectuals from slipping into bourgeois mind set
- Endemic diseases such as cholera and typhoid had high mortality rates in rural china
- 90% of villages involved by 1976
- One million trained for 6 months and then sent into villages , emphasis on practical skills
- Succeses
- 1952 patriotic health movements, emphasis on prevention rather than a cure and hygiene
- Reducing death rate from waterborne diseases (digging deeper wells and careful disposal of human waste)
- Campaign about snails and there causing of schistosamiasis
- Infant mortality rates fell and life expectancy from 41 in 1950 to 62 by 1970
- Failures
- 4 pests campaign, flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows, damage caused by sparrowcide vastly outweighed benefits
- Barefoot doctors
- Education
- By the Mid 50s a national system of literacy was established
- Literacy rate rose from 20% in 1949 to 64% in 1964, by 1976 it was 70% due to the CR
- Census in 1982, 11% of pop received education after 16, 26% had received education 12-16
- However by 1956 fewer than half of 7-16 year olds were in full time education
- Only 6.4% of the 1952 budget was given to education
- Greater focus on science and technology
- 'Key schools' that had entrance exams had the best teachers and places were reserved for children of high ranking party officals
- Literacy rate rose from 20% in 1949 to 64% in 1964, by 1976 it was 70% due to the CR
- Pinyin
- Modernised form of phonetic mandarin, officially adopted in 1956
- Gradually replaced the other forms of written Chinese, enabled literacy to spread further
- Collapse of education after 1966
- Education of 130 million children stopped 1966-70
- undermined the purpose of education and made it difficult to restore faith in system
- During the CR the point of education was to serve the Revolution and after there was more of a focus on practical work
- 1949 there were 200 universities, byt 1961 there were 1289 but this dropped to 434 after the CR
- By the Mid 50s a national system of literacy was established
- Health
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