- 1 million medical trainees
- Sent in to the countryside
- Basic healthcare, simple hygiene, family planning
- Facilities limited in the countryside
- By 197? 90% of villages were involved with the scheme
- Helped to inspire the World Health Organisation
- Government needed to reduce mortality rates - e.g. Scarlet Fever, Malaria, Cholera
- Ideological - prevent medical trainees from becoming bourgeois
- Economic - can pay less than doctors if not properly qualified
Patriotic Health Movement
- Propaganda campaign focusing on
- - The importance of Hygiene
- - The link between dirt and disease
- e.g. - encouraged digging deeper wells for cleaner water resources
- Discouraged the use of 'night soil' as fertiliser
- Posters, leaflets, films and neighbourhood committee
- Prevention rather than cure (shortages of doctors, nurses and hospitals)
- Increased from 41 in 1950 to 62 in 1970
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