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The distribution and impact of health resource availability in China

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Prescott; Dean T. Jamison

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
669 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
0749-6753

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✦ Synopsis

Since 1949, China's progress in mortality reduction has far exceeded that experienced by other developing countries with comparable levels of national income. This achievement has taken place in the context of a development strategy oriented, in part, to the elimination of the worst aspects of poverty. Using recent cross-section data, this paper provides a statistical assessment of the extent to which health resources are evenly distributed in contemporary China, and the degree to which improvements in health resource availability may account for the observed variation in mortality levels. Contrary to expectation, the analysis finds that substantial inequalities do remain in the distribution of health resources, and that these differentials are principally associated with levels of urban income and urbanization. However, these differences in health resource availability do not appear to explain the significant variation which also persists in mortality levels, a finding consistent with the results of similar analyses for developed countries.

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