Health Reform in China
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- Health Reform in China
- Patriotic Health Movements (1949 onwards):
- Teams of party members went to the countryside to explain in simple terms the connection between dirt and disease
- Great communal efforts to drain swamps and eradicate pests that carried the dysentery malaria and other diseases
- The 'Antis campaign':
- Undermined attempts to improve healthcare as doctors were targeted in struggle meetings
- Barefoot doctors (late 1960s):
- Teams of swiftly trained medics sent to the countryside to provide health care
- 6 months practical study
- Their training reflected Communist ideology
- As Communists believed that the long period of academic study had detached the doctors from the people and encouraged bourgeois ways
- Patriotic Health Movements (1949 onwards):
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