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HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: INNOVATIONS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Author(s) -
Wilenski Peter S.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb130468.x
Subject(s) - developing country , china , economic growth , people's republic , developed country , health care , business , medical care , healthcare system , health care delivery , development economics , political science , medicine , environmental health , nursing , economics , population , law
The medical care delivery systems of most low‐income countries are largely patterned on those of industrialized societies and are ill suited to the needs of developing countries. The present alternative model of health care in China has evolved after prolonged and often bitter debate extending over twenty years. The system that has been developed is one that appears uniquely suited to the needs of a large rural developing country; but it has been achieved in large part not through the medical profession but by evolving a system based upon participation by the people themselves and the development of new health‐worker roles.