1st Edition
Health Care in Rural China Lessons from HeBei Province
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions in the social, historical and political context of rural China, the authors advance our understanding of the social processes which shape the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Setting the scene: health, health services, ideology and the economy; Health and health resources; Public health: past achievements and future challenges; Patterns of health care provision; Patterns of lay behaviour; Patterns of inequality; Women‘s health; The elderly; Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Ofra Anson- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Shifang Sun- HeBei Academy of Social Sciences, The People’s Republic of China.
