Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015

This book traces the development of Chinäs public health system, showing how public health advances have been integral to Chinäs rise. It outlines the phenomenal public health improvements, and relates public health developments to prevailing political ideologies. The book explores how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices developed through social and political upheavals and argues that this perspective of Chinäs development is different from Chinäs development viewed purely in political terms.