Health 1949-63 Flashcards
1
Q
What health improvements were made in China?
A
> Four pests Campaign
‘Barefoot doctors were given six months medical training and then sent to the countryside to give basic treatments.
Poppy fields were burned and opium addicts were killed or forced to give up the drug.
2
Q
Consequences of improved health care
A
> Life expectancy rose from 35 to 55.
People were inoculated against disease.
Opium addicts vanished.
3
Q
Four Pests Campaign
A
> flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, rats
Cadres travelled through remote villages and taught people the link between dirt and disease, and how to avoid malaria and dysentery.
