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This chapter provides a brief review of the development of the healthcare and social security system in China, and the use of specific public health terms and expressions in different historical periods in the country. English translations of selected original Chinese health materials are provided to demonstrate the features and characteristics of the developing Chinese healthcare system since the mid-twentieth century. Discussion on the Chinese health research context and the international health research environment is developed using keyword analysis of Chinese and English publications, a research method which is widely used in corpus linguistics and corpus translation studies.
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Ji, M. (2017). A Brief Overview of the Development of Healthcare System in China. In: Translation and Health Risk Knowledge Building in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4681-0_3
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