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HEALTH IN CHINA 1949-76 - Coggle Diagram
HEALTH IN CHINA 1949-76
NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTHCARE CONFERENCES (1950 + 1952)
focused on working people, farmers and soldiers. Also aimed to successfully integrate western and chinese medicine.
https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-019-0486-6
Prevention and control of infectious diseases was the core of health-related work at that time.
Life expectancy
In 1949 life expectancy was 36 years. In early 1980s it had increased to 68 years.
Most rapid increase in life expectancy of any population in global history. Grew from between 35 and 40 years to 65.5 years
Eradication of diseases
Vaccination Campaigns
1950s Diseases: Smallpox, diphtheria and Bacillus-Calmetter Guerin
1960s Diseases: pertussis, tetanus, polio, measles and Japanese encephalitis
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Established in 1950, it registers the 15 diseases with high epidemic potential which included Cholera, plague, smallpox, Japanese encephalitis meningococcal meningitis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, and measles
schistosomiasis
In 1955 the government said they would eliminate the disease which impacted the peasants.by 1962
It is carried by parasitic worms in fresh water =and can cause death.
The campaign claimed that it had completely eliminated the disease which was false.
many of the figures about the disease were made up.
many of the remedies were also harmful
land reclamation and irrigation schemes were employed and caused different problems like water logging and others that remain a problem to this day.
A toxic drug was also used to try and treat people but it was limited in its effectiveness and caused the deaths not many
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115483/
In 1952, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) set up the Patriotic Health Campaign Committee (the Campaign Committee) at all levels of government, a deliberative and coordinating body for health related issues.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oBTZMs7bKjvRDupBAvgzoQ5Tl5AD5Ryx05kXU_Fn8aM/edit?usp=sharing