Investing in health care for China’s rural poor (English)

This Results Profile talks about investing in health care for China’s rural poor. Despite China’s impressive progress in raising health standards in the 1960s and 1970s, a health divide emerged in the 1980s between poor rural areas and rich urban regions. Infant mortality rates were three times higher in rural areas and maternal mortality rates were twice as high. The problems in rural healthcare resulted from a decline in government support for public...
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  • 2012/04/16

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  • China,

  • East Asia and Pacific,

  • 2015/10/20

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  • Investing in health care for China’s rural poor

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Investing in health care for China’s rural poor (English). Results Profile Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/482041467998210904

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