A road to new healthy countryside:Policy design and initial effects of China's healthy rural re-construction
10.3969/j.issn.1674-2982.2015.11.005
- VernacularTitle:新农村的健康之路——健康村建设的政策设计与初步效果
- Author:
Zhongming LIU
;
Wei PAN
;
Rui LI
;
Zhaoyang ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Healthy villages;
Health promotion;
New rural reconstruction;
China rural health development project
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
2015;8(11):21-25
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Healthy rural reconstruction is a widely explored intervention implemented by China Rural Health Devel-opment Project with the support of the World Bank and UK Department for International Development. By using initial pro-ject baseline data survey, mid-term evaluation and supervision, terminal evaluation of acquired qualitative and quantitative data,this paper analyzes the intervention policy design and initial effects of China's healthy rural reconstruction. With transforming the living environment in rural areas as the starting point, the project has relatively achieved good results, by using different policy measures such as improving the environment, creating a social environment conducive to villagers' health, expanding and providing high-quality health services, foster healthy behaviors and lifestyles, etc. The main results include the expansion of the project to cover 745 administrative villages, the environment of healthy villa-ges is much better than other neighboring villages, villagers' health knowledge has been greatly increased, lifestyle be-haviors of villagers have improved, the attitudes and participation rate of residents in cultural and sports activities have improved, etc. This paper suggests implementing the healthy rural reconstruction nationwide. It is very important to in-tegrate the concept of healthy village throughout the connotation of all kinds of new rural reconstruction, so the concept of health is deeply rooted in rural areas and imperceptibly change people's living behaviors and habits.
