title: China's health system: determinants.
abstract: This paper seeks to examine and explain the changes in China's health policy since 1949. It attempts to clarify the role of various determinants in the health policy-making process in various stages of China's development and discover what forces propelled the shifts in health policies and campaigns. Various social, economic and political forces are discussed as they bear on the evolution of China's health policies, and the fate of Maoist vs. pragmatic tendencies is assessed.
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006266:Health Education; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011155:Population Control; D011158:Population Growth; D011634:Public Health; D013222:State Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D013997:Time Factors