Women's Health Care China
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Historically, the health care protection system in China consisted of two main components: rural and urban. These systems were distinct depending on the needs of China’s rural and urban populations and the resource to serve them. The rural health protection system covered a majority of China’s rural population and its success was based on the government’s ability to mobilize local resources which resulted in lower costs to serve the rural population. As Halstead, Walsh and Warren (1985) note: “The barefoot doctors of revolutionary China had demonstrated that with political will for equity a state could achieve good health at low cost” (9). The urban health protection system was designed to protect China’s urban workers. Despite the success of these systems, China has experiences rapid escalation of health care costs and inefficient and ineffective health care allocation. This is particularly true with respect to women, particular poor and rural women.China’s health care delivery system consists of three tiers for both urban and rural delivery of health care. Village stations, township health centers, and country hospitals in rural areas and street health stations, community health centers, and district hospitals in urban areas. In the 1980s China enjoyed economic growth unparalleled in its history. However, this growth was generated by economic reforms that had an enormous impact on China’s health sector.
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for all her medical workers. As she stated: “Without the karaoke and the Coke, maybe the surgeon would have been less careful” (Jacob, 1996, 1).
Tuberculosis and Hepatitis continue to be major concerns and resource drains on China’s health care system. China faces critical challenges to control infectious diseases because of the size of the country and the scope of the population to be served. China’s National Tuberculosis Control Plan is designed to provide greater coverage, especially for poor rural areas where women are mostly affected from the lack of care. Medicines that are available to women in these areas are often too expensive and of poorer quality than in urban areas. Hepatitis also remains a major problem among the female population. According to Huang (2002), China’s health care system and reforms are totally inadequate to address the enormous challenges stemming from infectious diseases:
The current health system is not only ill-prepared for the transition from acute to chronic, non-communicable disease control, but it is also increasingly unable to tackle ongoing public health challenges. Infectious diseases remain rampant – about 10 percent of Chinese are still infected with Hepatitis B, with some 30 m
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