Health System in China.

Great advances in public health have been hallmark of the People’s Republic of China since it was founded in 1949. Examples of public health advances that were made in china including controlling contagious disease such as cholera, typhoid etc. These accomplishments in public health were credited to a political system that was and is largely socialistic terms as collective.

The collective health care system was owned and controlled by the state and was characterised by the use of barefoot doctors who were medical practioners trained at the community level and who could provide a minimal level of health throughout the country.

This system was financed by co operative insurance plan.
Barefoot doctors combined western medicine with traditional techniques such as acupuncture, herbal remedies.

Today health care in china is managed by the Ministry of Public Health, which sets national health policy.

Chinas health care system is modified by the introduction of primary health care system in community health clinics (CHC) based on the health care system in Canada. With this system, a family practice physician is assigned 500 or more individuals for whom to provide health care.