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Access to health services

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This paper examines interrelationships between health status, access and utilization. Indicators for each of these are measured for China and India. It is shown that China, both during Mao and Deng periods, scores over India in the provision of health services to the rural population. Differences in economic inequalities, organization of health services and motivation account for this. Contrary to the prevailing view there is no conclusive evidence that the post‐Mao reforms have lowered the access of rural people to health services. The decline of barefoot doctors has been accompanied by an increase in private medical practitioners, and a decline in rural health insurance has coincided with new and alternative experiments in this domain.

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  • A. S. Bhalla, 1991. "Access to health services," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 3(3), pages 403-420.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:3:y:1991:i:3:p:403-420
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.4010030313
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