China's human resources for health: quantity, quality, and distribution

Anand, Sudhir; Fan, Victoria Y.; Zhang, Junhua; Zhang, Lingling; Ke, Yang; Dong, Zhe; Chen, Lincoln C.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61363-x

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“…In China, only 13% of rural doctors had a medical qualification at bachelor degree or higher, while the great majority (79%) only had a secondary technical school qualification. 27 The situation was even worse in western provinces: 70% of village doctors did not have any formal medical training, and had received an average of only 20 months of medical training. 28 Added to this lower skill level of village doctors, or maybe because of, residents in rural areas were less likely to seek medical advice when they felt ill than those in urban areas, 29 thus limiting the potential for earlier diagnosis and treatment if cancer was suspected.…”

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Cancer survival in China, 2003–2005: A population‐based study

Zeng¹,

Zheng²,

Guo

et al. 2014

Intl Journal of Cancer

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Limited population-based cancer registry data available in China until now has hampered efforts to inform cancer control policy. Following extensive efforts to improve the systematic cancer surveillance in this country, we report on the largest pooled analysis of cancer survival data in China to date. Of 21 population-based cancer registries, data from 17 registries (n 5 138,852 cancer records) were included in the final analysis. Cases were diagnosed in 2003-2005 and followed until the end of 2010. Age-standardized relative survival was calculated using region-specific life tables for all cancers combined and

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Cancer survival in China, 2003–2005: A population‐based study

Zeng¹,

Zheng²,

Guo

et al. 2014

Intl Journal of Cancer

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“…88 These graduates are the credentialled practitioners, compared with the nearly 1 million additional village doctors who mostly have only vocational training. 89 In public health, bachelor degree holders constitute a large proportion of professionals worldwide. Many postgraduate degree holders have attended independent public health schools, but many attended medical school departments or subunits.…”

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Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

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“…Data regarding Public health dentists were obtained from the Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry information centre. Densities of health workers were calculated from the workforce data described above and census data on populations [2,7].…”

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“…Data for dentists in some states (e.g. north-east India) are not available because there is no state-specific professional councils [7].…”

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