The People's Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao's China, 1949-1983 Volume 2

by Xun Zhou

In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government and the 'imperialist' West. For the next thirty years under Mao's leadership, the People's Republic of China made improving the health of the entire population a central pillar of its policy. International health stakeholders came to view it as a statistical outlier in its ability to achieve better health...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228001935
• ISBN13: 9780228001935
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 384 Pages