Showing posts with label reports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reports. Show all posts

2/01/2011

A few more reports


1/ Wiki on Public healthcare in China

2/ A study from the Economist here

3/ Report from the WHO on mental health over here

4/ More on mental health here

China country studies

Rainer's found this really interesting study on healthcare in China

.... Since the founding of the People's Republic, the goal of health programs has been to provide care to every member of the population and to make maximum use of limited health-care personnel, equipment, and financial resources. The emphasis has been on preventive rather than curative medicine on the premise that preventive medicine is "active" while curative medicine is "passive." The health-care system has dramatically improved the health of the people, as reflected by the remarkable increase in average life expectancy from about thirty-two years in 1950 to sixty-nine years in 1985...

Read the rest of the study here