Archives of Disease in Childhood 新千年发展目标时代中国儿童健康.pdfVIP

Downloaded from / on May 16, 2016 - Published by Regional updates Child health in China in the Millennium Development Goal era Bo Sun,1 Kun Liang,2 Bin Yi,3 Li Zhang4 1Laboratory of Neonatal The Millennium Developmental Goal (MDG) 4, Up to 2013, all the provinces and most of the rural Medicine of National Health initiated in 1990 aiming to reduce mortality of chil- residents were enrolled and subjected to this insur- and Family Planning Commission, Departments of dren under 5 years of age (U5M) by two-third in ance. Adjustments were also made to enable those Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2015, was achieved in China to an average level treated by provincial public healthcare services at Children’s Hospital of Fudan lower than 15/1000 in 20121–3 (table 1). Given non-resident registry area or eligible to special ther- University, Shanghai, China China’s size (1.34 billion population with 16 million apies for severe and chronic diseases to maximise 2Departments of Pediatrics and deliveries annually), this milestone has worldwide the benefit for the rural participants. For newborn Neonatology, First Hospital of Kunming Medical University, implications. This milestone was achieved through a infants, their hospitalised costs are covered with Kunming, Yunnan, China combination of efforts: social, economic, governmen- their maternal insurance for up to 50% of the total 3Department of Neonatology, tal and medical.4 Over the two and half d