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    Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform

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    1995
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    Gu, Xing-Yuan
    Bloom, Gerald
    Tang, Sheng-Lan
    Lucas, Henry
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    Since 1950 China has transformed itself from the sick man of Asia' to a country with better than average health indices for its level of national income. This achievement was due to a number of factors including a dramatic fall in the prevalence of severe poverty, improvements in the rural environment, increases in levels of literacy and the provision of services to meet priority health needs. The development of the health sector paralleled the establishment of a command economy organised into state-owned enterprises in the cities and agricultural collectives, called communes, in the countryside. Its structure reflected this economic and administrative environment. It was controlled jointly by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and the Communist Party through a tightly organised hierarchy. The health services mobilised the population in public health campaigns and provided almost universal access to preventive programmes and basic curative care. During the late 1970s the government began to introduce market-oriented reforms and devolve its financial management. For several years the School of Public Health of the Shanghai Medical University, in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies in England, has been studying the impact of these changes on rural health services. This paper outlines the problems which health services in poor rural counties face and proposes a strategy for reform. The major points it makes are summarised in the box on page 2 and the research findings which led to these recommendations are presented in the Annex. The aim is to contribute to the formulation of strategies which ensure that the population of poor rural areas has access to essential health services.
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    Gu, X., G. Bloom, S. Tang & H. Lucas (1995) Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform. IDS Working Paper, 17. Brighton: IDS.
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    IDS working papers;17
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