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Superbugs a problem in China, here, and everywhere. And don’t just blame it on Chinese doctors.
To be sure, the drug resistance situation in China is worrying. Of course, the article fails to mention the fact that the situation is equally worrying in much of the world. Overprescribing of antibiotics to humans, overuse of antibiotics in agriculture, and drug resistant bacteria are big problems in America, the UK and Europe, South and Latin America, Australia, Russia, India and anywhere else that antibiotics are readily available. In the UK, it should be added, antibiotics panic is a favorite way of pundits to get the public riled up. I think its because the threat of country-wide infection is a particularly frightening prospect for people living on islands; there's only so many places that one can run to get away.
C-Sections in China, what if they are more common when parents know its a boy?
China's low gender empowerment is also reflected in the country's preference for boys over girls. Chinese parents are not shy about using ultrasound to determine the sex of their children, and there is evidence that the proliferation of ultrasound machines coincides with a rise in selective abortions whereby parents. This is also a formula for higher C-section rates. When a woman is in the doctor's office with her husband, and they find out that the child is a boy, how great is the pressure on the woman to have a C-section if the doctor says this is absolutely the surest way to ensure the healthy delivery of the baby?
This then leads directly to the second thought. In that Lancet C-section study, wouldn't it be interesting to take a look at how many of the C-section babies were boys?
Pfizer’s China Strategy shows why they are still alive in the Big Pharma Consolidation Wars
Unlike physicians in the US, Chinese physicians have long gotten used to depending on drug sales for the majority of their pay check. State provided salaries are small, and hospital oversight is opaque enough to make under the table payments from drug sales reps easy, and widespread. With the new Essential Drug List that was finalized this past summer, under the table payments are going to be much hard to make because and overwhelming percentage of the most profitable drugs are going to be sold exclusively at rural hospitals for a flat fee. The new reality will involve a lot more 'feet on the ground' because of where the most drugs are being sold (rural pharmacies) and because it will now take more time to persuade doctors that a particular product is the best product. This is where Pfizer is ahead of the curve
The rural life and times of China’s aging population, Part II: Caregivers and Psychologocial Outcomes
Consequences of migration not only have the potential to shift rural health profiles in the short term, but will undoubtedly cause a demographic change in urban areas. Filial piety motivates families to stay together in the countryside, thus it also motivates migrated families to stay in the city. As the urban migrants begin their families, they will eventually age and remain in the city. These two trends seem to run counter to one another. The elderly parents of the migrants are likely to be left behind if their children stay in cities with their families. While some elderly will undoubtedly move to the city, the high costs of a move, both monetary and physical, as well as the regulatory complications involved (see hukous in the next instalment), will preclude the majority of elderly from doing so.
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