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In 1948 China was described as having the greatest and most intractable health problems of any nation in the world. Less than forty years later, many of these problems have been dealt with. Life expectancy for adults and infants is approaching Western levels, and China’s ramshackle health-care system has been expanded and improved to produce rapid growth in medical facilities and personnel. Nutritional and sanitary improvements, together with economic growth, have accompanied these changes and augmented and consolidated their effects.
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Hillier, S. (1988). Health and Medicine in the 1980s. In: Benewick, R., Wingrove, P. (eds) Reforming the Revolution. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19555-8_11
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