ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the access to health, broadly defined, and health care of the rural population of the People's Republic of China. It describes the most obvious representations of Chinese Communist Party health ideology were the multi-sectorial action and mass mobilization for public health work. The book focuses on some universal issues that are dispute in many societies. It explores an implementation of the 'system of household responsibility' boosted economic productivity and growth and increased the standard of living of a large proportion of the population. The book shows the health expenditures of patients in richer villages were higher than those of patients in poorer villages. It describes the health status of rural Chinese men and women in the reproductive and productive stage of the life cycle were far less noticeable than those reported for Western countries.