TOHOKU JOURNAL OF RURAL ECONOMICS
Online ISSN : 2187-4727
Print ISSN : 0285-7537
ISSN-L : 0285-7537
A Present Situation of the Rural Medical Seculity System in the China
Focusing on the New Rural Cooperative Medical System
Yaqing ZHANG
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2010 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 8-14

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Rural in medical care one of most important problems in China since it relates to the health care of over half of China's population. Under such severe circumstances, China's government started to bring new rural cooperative medical care system into effect since the beginning of 21st century. It had been six crucial years until 2003 for The New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) , which has achieved good results. But the system has been encountered lots of problems and need to be continuously improved as an innovative one.
This article analyzes the present situation of the medical security system in the China, which consists of two chapters. The first is to explain the medical system of China in terms of setup, development, promotion and decline from historical point of view. The second is to investigate the implementation and problems of the new rural cooperatives medical system. As most of the farmer does not trust the NRCMS, and safeguard level it seems difficult for the cooperative medical treatment has difficulties to adapt various medical safeguard demands.
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