Public Health versus Personal Medical Care
- 16 April 1981
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 304 (16), 981-983
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198104163041622
Abstract
Five years after the death of Mao, news articles report almost daily on China's monumental efforts to transform itself into an economically prosperous nation. Coca-Cola signs, Pierre Cardin fashion shows, joint ventures with American industry, small family-owned businesses, and the large number of Chinese students now enrolled in Western universities are symbols of the new pragmatic drive to make China's economy grow 50 per cent faster than it did in the past 25 years. This ambitious objective is having considerable impact on all segments of Chinese life, including its system of health care.1 , 2 This paper seeks to explain the major . . .Keywords
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