This article analyzes the content of maternal and child health policies issued between 1949 and 1979 in rural areas of Shanxi Province, China. Based on the documents collected in Shanxi Province’s archives and library, the article focuses on the role-played by the state in modernizing birthing practices in the area. Firstly, policies issued by the communist government involved the training of traditional birth attendants, who were then utilized rather than being eradicated from birthing scenes, and the teaching of modern methods of delivery to elite women in the villages with a view to making them agents of the modernization of delivery practices. Secondly, the communist government moved delivery from the home to birthing institu...
China has witnessed profound socioeconomic changes over the past four decades. This dissertation is ...
Since its enactment in 1979, the One Child Policy—which in theory limited Chinese couples to one chi...
Objective: Improving women's health is an essential public health task, especially for developing co...
This article analyzes the content of maternal and child health policies issued between 1980 and 2000...
This article offers a comparative analysis of the transformation of midwifery practices in Beijing c...
Since the socioeconomic reforms in China in the late 1970s the improvement of maternal and child hea...
China's nation-building agenda in the early twentieth century embraced the causes of women's rights ...
Chinese experience in a struggle with an excessive increase of the population is discussed in the ar...
Abstract China’s rural health care system has undergone major changes since the early 1980s, when th...
Over the last three centuries, childbirth has gradually become an issue of public concern worldwide,...
This part of the paper begins with a brief review of the definition of reproductive health (RH) and ...
With a declining birthrate, an aging population, and a labor shortage all becoming increasingly seri...
A question of great interest to China watchers is whether or not central mandates are successfully i...
A number of circumstances have combined in the reform era in China to put women at a more disadvanta...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108)This thesis examines the roles and expectations of C...
China has witnessed profound socioeconomic changes over the past four decades. This dissertation is ...
Since its enactment in 1979, the One Child Policy—which in theory limited Chinese couples to one chi...
Objective: Improving women's health is an essential public health task, especially for developing co...
This article analyzes the content of maternal and child health policies issued between 1980 and 2000...
This article offers a comparative analysis of the transformation of midwifery practices in Beijing c...
Since the socioeconomic reforms in China in the late 1970s the improvement of maternal and child hea...
China's nation-building agenda in the early twentieth century embraced the causes of women's rights ...
Chinese experience in a struggle with an excessive increase of the population is discussed in the ar...
Abstract China’s rural health care system has undergone major changes since the early 1980s, when th...
Over the last three centuries, childbirth has gradually become an issue of public concern worldwide,...
This part of the paper begins with a brief review of the definition of reproductive health (RH) and ...
With a declining birthrate, an aging population, and a labor shortage all becoming increasingly seri...
A question of great interest to China watchers is whether or not central mandates are successfully i...
A number of circumstances have combined in the reform era in China to put women at a more disadvanta...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108)This thesis examines the roles and expectations of C...
China has witnessed profound socioeconomic changes over the past four decades. This dissertation is ...
Since its enactment in 1979, the One Child Policy—which in theory limited Chinese couples to one chi...
Objective: Improving women's health is an essential public health task, especially for developing co...