The development of rural primary health care in China’s health system reform

Journal of Asian Public Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-101

  Liu, Xiaoyun ^a   Zhao, Shichao ^b   Zhang, Minmin ^a   Hu, Dan ^a   Meng, Qingyue ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; health system reform; human resources for health; primary health care; township health centre

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924225873     PISSN: 17516234     EISSN: 17516242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2015.1008195     Document Type: Article

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