This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and discusses how the drivers of health improvements were, unlike in the West, modern medical professionals and intellectuals who understood that, whatever the prevailing ideology, China needs to be a strong country. The book explores how public health concepts, policies, programmes, institutions and practices changed and developed through social and political upheavals, war, and famine, and argues that this perspective of China’s development is refreshingly different from China’s development viewed purely in political terms.
| ISBN: | 9781138845817 |
| Publication date: | 7th March 2017 |
| Author: | Liping Alma College, USA Bu |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia |
| Genres: |
Regional / International studies Politics and government Development studies Health & Fitness Sociology Medical sociology Health, illness and addiction: social aspects |
This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and discusses how the drivers of health improvements were, unlike in the West, modern medical professionals and intellectuals who understood that, whatever the prevailing ideology, China needs to be a strong country. The book explores how public health concepts, policies, programmes, institutions and practices changed and developed through social and political upheavals, war, and famine, and argues that this perspective of China’s development is refreshingly different from China’s development viewed purely in political terms.
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 features in the following genres: Regional / International studies, Politics and government, Development studies, Health & Fitness, Sociology, Medical sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 is available in Paperback, Hardback
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 was written by Liping Alma College, USA Bu and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia series
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