A review of child health urban-rural inequities in China from 1991 to 2010
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This thesis is the first systematic effort in Chinese scholarship in the social sciences to apply the concept, benchmarks of fairness, which was developed by Norman Daniels et al. (1996) as a tool for evaluating and discussing issues in health care equity and to identify factors that need improvement in order to improve the inequality in health care services between rural and urban communities.\nSince the economic reform started in 1978, China has experienced continuous economic development, which has contributed to the improved health status of the whole population. However, the benefits of this improvement have not been distributed equally, as the data on the infant mortality rate (IMR) indicate. Hence, the key questions in this thesis include the following: 1) How is the IMR distributed between urban and rural communities in China today compared with two decades ago? 2) How can this disparity be explained? 3) Does the health care system reinforce, reduce, or maintain these dispariti
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This thesis is the first systematic effort in Chinese scholarship in the social sciences to apply the concept, benchmarks of fairness, which was developed by Norman Daniels et al. (1996) as a tool for evaluating and discussing issues in health care equity and to identify factors that need improvement in order to improve the inequality in health care services between rural and urban communities.\nSince the economic reform started in 1978, China has experienced continuous economic development, which has contributed to the improved health status of the whole population. However, the benefits of this improvement have not been distributed equally, as the data on the infant mortality rate (IMR) indicate. Hence, the key questions in this thesis include the following: 1) How is the IMR distributed between urban and rural communities in China today compared with two decades ago? 2) How can this disparity be explained? 3) Does the health care system reinforce, reduce, or maintain these dispariti
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