Development of village doctors in China: financial compensation and health system support

• Main Authors: Dan Hu (Author), Weiming Zhu (Author), Yaqun Fu (Author), Minmin Zhang (Author), Yang Zhao (Author), Kara Hanson (Author), Melisa Martinez-Alvarez (Author), Xiaoyun Liu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Since 1968, China has trained about 1.5 million barefoot doctors in a few years' time to provide basic health services to 0.8 billion rural population. China's Ministry of Health stopped using the term of barefoot doctor in 1985, and changed policy to develop village do...