Artigo Revisado por pares

Public Health versus Personal Medical Care

1981; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 304; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm198104163041622

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Robert J. Blendon,

Tópico(s)

Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Resumo

Five years after the death of Mao, news articles report almost daily on China's monumental efforts to transform itself into an economically prosperous nation. Coca-Cola signs, Pierre Cardin fashion shows, joint ventures with American industry, small family-owned businesses, and the large number of Chinese students now enrolled in Western universities are symbols of the new pragmatic drive to make China's economy grow 50 per cent faster than it did in the past 25 years. This ambitious objective is having considerable impact on all segments of Chinese life, including its system of health care.1 , 2 This paper seeks to explain the major . . .

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