Health: 1950s Flashcards
What was the focus of the healthcare policy introduced in the 1950s?
Prevention over cures.
What was the Patriotic Health Campaign? What methods were used?
Teams of part workers were sent to the countryside to educate illiterate peasants. Lectures, films, posters and radio broadcasts were used in the education process.
What types of disease were reduced as a result of these campaigns?
Smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid fever, leprosy, tuberculosis and parasitic diseases.
How were the number of drug addicts lowered?
Through the use of terror campaigns.
How did healthcare improve on the communes?
Communes established medical clinics.
How id healthcare improve in urban areas?
800 western style hospitals were built.
The number of doctors trained in modern techniques rose from 40,000 in 1949 to 150,000 in 1965.
How many more doctors were there by the 1960s?
Medical schools were graduating 25,000 new doctors per year.
What was the impact of these changes?
In 1949 life expectancy was 36 years, by 1957 it was 57.
