Word: ruralization
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...codex is, in terms of importance to scholars, like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls in a rural town in Mexico,” said Ann Seiferle-Valencia, a third year graduate student in anthropology who is writing a dissertation on the codex...
...even before it starts, few are optimistic it will work. In most areas the program will cover only about 30% of medical bills. By leaving the supply side of the health-care system unchanged, rural hospitals will still have to support themselves by selling medicine unnecessarily. A bigger concern is local corruption. Cai Renhua of the China Institute for Health Economics recently helped run an experimental cooperative program in 10 counties similar to the scheme planned by Beijing. He found that peasants gladly contributed to the fund?as long as professors from Beijing were the collectors. When local officials showed...
...make medical care more affordable in the countryside, the central government announced in October that it will create a cooperative medical program for rural areas. The program calls for every individual to contribute about $1 a year to a special fund, to be matched by the local government and by Beijing. The program won't be operational until 2010, but eventually peasants should be able to draw from it to cover their health expenses...
...areas of SARS-hit Shanxi province, spent the night of May 6 lighting firecrackers to scare the disease away. Days later, the Worker's Daily criticized the practice, saying "the spread of superstition is another type of epidemic" that will "disturb and injure the people." What's really injuring rural people, though, is the lack of an adequate health system to care for them...
...After the confession session was over, the officials brimmed with charm. They plied us with promotional literature about Yuhuan. Did we know that it was ranked among the "100 Top Counties of China for Rural Comprehensive Force"? Or that this seaside region is "Home of the Famed Shaddock Park of the World"? I assured them I was overwhelmed by Yuhuan's bounty, and they welcomed us back whenever we wanted. Not once did we have our temperatures taken. They can only hope that we weren't carrying SARS...