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BareFoot Teachers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500490.html
Thursday, September 24, 2009
PDF about barefoot doctors
Here is the full report, but I'll give the important summary found at the end:
Despite the challenges China faces
in providing a modern health-care service
to all of its 1.3 billion people, the
barefoot doctors and their successors
can still show the way to the rest of the
world in primary health care, according
to Zhang Lingling. Writing in the
Young Voices in Research for Health
2007 essay competition sponsored by
the Global Forum for Health Research
and the Lancet, the doctoral student at
the Harvard School of Public Health
said: “The impact of barefoot doctors
in rural health-care services still exists.
Today, both researchers and policymakers
have widely acknowledged it is
hard to bring people to work in rural
areas. Even the developed countries
have experienced a difficult time attracting
medical professionals to rural
places [so] training local people seems
to be the optimal solution [in] building
sustainability in rural health-care
services.”
Liu Xingzhu also believes the
Chinese model can inform other countries’
approach to primary health care.
“Chinese experience showed that to
promote primary health care, the key
issues are human resources and medicine.
Chairman Mao advocated there
was no need for five years’ training;
one year was enough to train a doctor.
Short-term training focusing on
specific types of work, such as antiviral
treatment or prenatal care, is sufficient
to meet the demands of primary health
care, especially in the countryside or
poverty-stricken areas.”
Despite the challenges China faces
in providing a modern health-care service
to all of its 1.3 billion people, the
barefoot doctors and their successors
can still show the way to the rest of the
world in primary health care, according
to Zhang Lingling. Writing in the
Young Voices in Research for Health
2007 essay competition sponsored by
the Global Forum for Health Research
and the Lancet, the doctoral student at
the Harvard School of Public Health
said: “The impact of barefoot doctors
in rural health-care services still exists.
Today, both researchers and policymakers
have widely acknowledged it is
hard to bring people to work in rural
areas. Even the developed countries
have experienced a difficult time attracting
medical professionals to rural
places [so] training local people seems
to be the optimal solution [in] building
sustainability in rural health-care
services.”
Liu Xingzhu also believes the
Chinese model can inform other countries’
approach to primary health care.
“Chinese experience showed that to
promote primary health care, the key
issues are human resources and medicine.
Chairman Mao advocated there
was no need for five years’ training;
one year was enough to train a doctor.
Short-term training focusing on
specific types of work, such as antiviral
treatment or prenatal care, is sufficient
to meet the demands of primary health
care, especially in the countryside or
poverty-stricken areas.”
"Barefoot Doctors"
from wikipedia:
Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生 pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) are farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People's Republic of China. Their purpose was to bring health care to rural areas where urban-trained doctors would not settle. They promoted basic hygiene, preventive health care, and family planning and treated common illnesses. The name comes from southern farmers, who would often work barefoot in the rice paddies. There were previous scattered experiments with community health workers in the People’s Republic of China, but with Mao Zedong’s famous healthcare speech in 1965 it became institutionalized. In his speech, Mao Zedong criticized the urban bias of the medical system of the time, and called for a system with greater focus on the well being of the rural population.[1] China’s health policy changed quickly after this speech and in 1968, the barefoot doctors program became integrated into national policy.[1] These programs were called “rural cooperative medical systems” (RCMS) and strove to include community participation with the rural provision of health services.[2] Barefoot doctors became a part of the Cultural Revolution, which also radically diminished the influence of the Weishengbu, China's health ministry, which was dominated by Western-trained doctors.
Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生 pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) are farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People's Republic of China. Their purpose was to bring health care to rural areas where urban-trained doctors would not settle. They promoted basic hygiene, preventive health care, and family planning and treated common illnesses. The name comes from southern farmers, who would often work barefoot in the rice paddies. There were previous scattered experiments with community health workers in the People’s Republic of China, but with Mao Zedong’s famous healthcare speech in 1965 it became institutionalized. In his speech, Mao Zedong criticized the urban bias of the medical system of the time, and called for a system with greater focus on the well being of the rural population.[1] China’s health policy changed quickly after this speech and in 1968, the barefoot doctors program became integrated into national policy.[1] These programs were called “rural cooperative medical systems” (RCMS) and strove to include community participation with the rural provision of health services.[2] Barefoot doctors became a part of the Cultural Revolution, which also radically diminished the influence of the Weishengbu, China's health ministry, which was dominated by Western-trained doctors.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Rural China "Children Left Behind"
Short documentary on youtube about the lives of children left behind by their parents who went to find work in the cities.
Video
Video
Impact on children
Bad sanitation and a dirty water supply can impact a child's growth both physically and mentally. And filthy water can lead to diseases in both children and adults that can sometimes lead to death.
Though it's somewhat dated, the information is still important:
Here
Though it's somewhat dated, the information is still important:
Here
Monday, September 21, 2009
Millennium goals for China
http://www.undp.org.cn/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&catid=32&sid=6
My Teacher Friend from China
She is very opinionated and swears lol so sorry if that offends anyone.
Email 1
any specifics on poverty?here's what came right to mind:
70% of the chinese population is composed of farmers that grow the food for their massive population. these people are shit upon. same with construction workers. girls use umbrellas in the sun - light is good, dark is bad - because it means you work outside. same reason why men grow out one or all of their nails to show that they don't to physical labor & get their hands dirty. Good for communism for succeeding in brainwashing these people to believe they are farming for their country, and proud, and committed and not pissed off that they are sh*t on.
there are virtually no facilities for handicapped people. if you are deformed - you won't get a job and HAVE to beg for a living. if you have a visible scar - you also won't get hired in a high paying job, or even a job as a hostess. the chinese are super judgmental & discriminating.
you have to have money to leave the country (obviously) but money=status=no status= no hong kong for you (i think they fear that the poor (farmers) will see western civilization and then revolt, because they are sh*t on - i can almost guarantee that there will be some sort of civil uprising in china in our life time)
poverty level is so much different in china in comparison to here. to me, except in the big cities, every one seemed poor, with VERY low standards for hygiene. I lived in rural china. I suppose I am confusing dirty with poverty. everything is dirty there. but ifs a matter of "lacking material comforts" sh*t - the majority. not as many people seeming destitute - but sure as shit they would always come begging to us foreigners. I would always give money to the deformed, especially children, knowing that they were never going to be allowed to work.
check your food labels - if it was made in china - i wouldn't eat it.
i am sure i will think of some more stuff. i will check your page for an email address, but if its not on there - send it to me and i will send you pictures.
Email 2
Heya, heres that email: 1- and by dirty................. 2-beijing side street 3-trash (chinese people throw trash everywhere - I never got used to that. but china has created jobs such as: people who pick up garbage (plastic gets recycled and is worth money), people who sweep the highways with a broom in pic 6 4-street by school 5- my favorite dumpling shop 6-chinese broom 7-beijing pollution 8-did I say dirty? guess i didn't take pics of many of the invalids or nastiness :) bunch of chinese albums on my fakebook page I had a heater and a nice enough apartment- but thats because I was a foreign teacher - no heat/heated water in the dorms, no heat in my classrom - I literally wore my winter coat ALL class period during the winter and bought myself a pair of fingerless gloves so that I could still write on the chalkboard. yet - somehow I miss it now. did any of this help? questions?
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
China Wireless Communications Inc.
China Wireless Communications, Inc. based in Denver, CO develops, installs and
markets wireless broadband networks and provides Internet access in Beijing, China.
Utilizing the most reliable wireless technology, China Wireless provides the ‘last
mile’ connection between their telecommunications partners and customers.
Examples of applications provided are redundant high-speed backbones, Voice over IP,
VSAT, transport connections which include IP data, video, and ISP services. The
Company is publicly quoted on the OTCBB under the symbol “CWLC”.
markets wireless broadband networks and provides Internet access in Beijing, China.
Utilizing the most reliable wireless technology, China Wireless provides the ‘last
mile’ connection between their telecommunications partners and customers.
Examples of applications provided are redundant high-speed backbones, Voice over IP,
VSAT, transport connections which include IP data, video, and ISP services. The
Company is publicly quoted on the OTCBB under the symbol “CWLC”.
Existing Communication In China
Here is the site for a company that focuses on communication and security solutions, and is focused in China. This can give us an idea about what is already out there.
http://www.cpcnet.com/index.asp
http://www.cpcnet.com/index.asp
One Child Program
This is a talk on NPR that discuses the dangers of the One Child policy in China
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89572563
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89572563
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Chinese Diversity
The Chinese population comprises one-fifth of the human species. The Chinese government officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups, one of which is the Han majority (1 billion and 100 million people), and the other 55 are ethnic minorities (totaling about 100 million). The latter are spread over most of China, but especially in the south. Close to half of the minorities are found in one of the 28 provinces of China, Yunnan. The distinction is primarily linguistic but corresponds closely to other cultural differences.
source: http://www.pnas.org/content/95/20/11501.full
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