Extending access to essential services against constraints: the three-tier health service delivery system in rural China (1949-1980)

• Main Authors: Xing Lin Feng (Author), Melisa Martinez-Alvarez (Author), Jun Zhong (Author), Jin Xu (Author), Beibei Yuan (Author), Qingyue Meng (Author), Dina Balabanova (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background China has made remarkable progress in scaling up essential services during the last six decades, making health care increasingly available in rural areas. This was partly achieved through the building of a three-tier health system in the 1950s, established as a linked network wit...