Investigation report on the village doctors’ earnings

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Village doctors have dramatically improved medical service quanlity in  rural areas over the last few decades. With the development of rural economics, the changes of social structure, and the new round health care reform, village doctors are facing new difficulties and severe challenges. In order to keep their regular income, Chinese government have come up with a way of securing financing for village doctors through multiple channels, such as subsidies to public health, compensation for essential drugs, and basic medical fee. Nevertheless, village doctors remarked that they had no pension and their effort was not valued fairly by the government, their incomes fell in recent years. In 2011, the study, launched by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, showed that village doctors’ earnings fell sharply after the implementation of the National Essential Drug, and some of them had withdrawn from this occupation.