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For the first-time visitor, China is breathtaking — a land of extraordinary vitality, unimaginable size, and outlandish contrasts. Its cities hum with energy, purpose, and impenetrable traffic jams choking inadequate roadways. It is home to one quarter of the world's population, and more and more of its 1.3 billion people have flocked into megalopolises (such as Shanghai, with more than 16 million people, and Beijing, with more than 13 million) that dwarf anything in the Western world. And while those cities sprout soaring, glass-shelled skyscrapers and business centers that make even London and Paris look modest, much of the rural . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Recent History of China's Health Care System — 1950 to 2002

The Government Responds

Looking Back and Looking Forward

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From the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital–Partners Health Care System (D.B.); and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health (W.H.) — both in Boston.

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The Evolving Chinese Health Care System
Mahmoudi A., Blumenthal D., Hsiao W.
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N Engl J Med 2006; 354:876, Feb 23, 2006. Correspondence

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