Selected article for: "clinical disease and disease control"

Author: Hipgrave, David
Title: Communicable disease control in China: From Mao to now
  • Document date: 2011_12_23
  • ID: 0b7aui02_17
    Snippet: The roles of the barefoot doctors and health aides included environmental sanitation, health education, disease screen-ing, surveillance and control, basic clinical care or referral and family planning. CDC continued to benefit from management of water sources and disposal of human excreta (including through composting), improvements in wells, toilets, stables, cooking areas and the local environment, and specific disease control programs through.....
    Document: The roles of the barefoot doctors and health aides included environmental sanitation, health education, disease screen-ing, surveillance and control, basic clinical care or referral and family planning. CDC continued to benefit from management of water sources and disposal of human excreta (including through composting), improvements in wells, toilets, stables, cooking areas and the local environment, and specific disease control programs through reducing stagnant water, spraying and other measures to control flies, fleas and mosquitoes. Although the barefoot doctors continued the "prevention first" approach to CDC established in the 1950s under the guidance of the Patriotic Health Campaign Coordination Office (a quasi-Ministerial agency only absorbed into the Ministry of Health in 1989), clinical links were established via a three-tier referral network from village through commune to county levels, with supervision in the reverse direction. This three-tier network persists today (7, 15, 16) .

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