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The Lost Generation: “Barefoot Doctors” in Post-Reform China

The Lost Generation: “Barefoot Doctors” in Post-Reform China

By Asia Pacific Memo on October 1, 2014

Memo #309 By Jiong Tu – jt457 [at] cam.ac.uk China’s barefoot doctor system is known for having provided inexpensive and accessible medical care to its large rural population in the 1970s. But the system became bankrupt with the advent of market reforms in the 1980s and many barefoot doctors either became private doctors or gave […]

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