2 Shen Nung, the Red Emperor (Hung Ti), compiled the first medical herbal, the Pen-tsao (c. 2800 B.C.), in which he reported the effects of 365 drugs, all of them personally tested.
Healthcare reform in China
A barefoot doctor examines a child.
The Comparison Of Several Countries’ Health Care
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The New Rural Co-operative Medical Care System (NRCMCS) particularly intended to make it more affordable for the rural poor
3 Chang Chung-ching, the Chinese Hippocrates, in the third century A.D., wrote the classic treatise Typhoid and Other Fevers.
4 Compendium of Materia Medica, also known Bencao Gangmu , is aChinese materia medica work written by Li Shizhen during the Ming Dynasty
Health care in Germany
Law-enforced health insurance" (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and "Private" (Private Krankenversicherung). Compulsory insurance applies to those below a set income level and is provided through private non-profit "sickness funds" at common rates for all members, and is paid for with joint employer-employee contributions.