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[The establishment of Ting Hsien Experimental Project of Rural Health Service and its influence]
Q N Zhang1, S S Liao, K L Zhang
1Institute of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100005, China.
Abstract:
Founded by the Chinese Mass Education Movement (MEM) led by Dr.James Yen and Peking Union Medical College(PUMC), the Ting Hsien Experimental Project was a demonstration program for health service in a rural county. Through a 8-year endeavor (1929-1937) and using a bottom-up approach, Dr. Chen Chih-chien and Dr.YaoHsun-yuan took the leadership of a group of dedicated PUMC graduates and students, and created a three-level(village-district-county) system to deliver both curative as well as preventive medical service for rural population. This project, under the full support of MEM and Dr. John Black Grant, Director of the Department of Public Health of PUMC, offered an important example for rural community health care in contemporary China. Moreover, it demonstrated and inspired the concepts of the primary health care advocated by World Health Organization 40 years later.
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