title: Primary health care in rural China: post-1978 development.
abstract: Primary Health Care in rural China is examined with particular reference to its development since 1978. The expansion and professionalization of the post-Mao rural health system is described and illustrated with examples from particular communes. The financing of the three-tiered health care system between 1967 and 1978 is described and some of the major problems in implementing current objectives are analyzed.
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005380:Financing, Government; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006285:Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012423:Rural Health; D012424:Rural Population