title: [The rural polyclinic in the early stage of the People's Republic of China.].
abstract: The polyclinic is one type of medical organization of mutual assistance and cooperation of a collective nature, which was founded based on the integration of rural original medical and health resources in the early stage of the People's Republic of China. The polyclinic played a particular role in resolving the extreme shortage of rural medical resources and medicines at that time and promoting the sanitary and anti-epidemic situation in rural communities. This laid a foundation for the three-level network of care and medical prevention. However it did not change the traditional mode of healthcare and medical work so that is also failed in solving the problems of shortage of medicines in rural areas.
authors.affiliation: College of History and Culture and Tourism of Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China.
authors.forename: De-Cheng
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xu-Zhong
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006801:Humans