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Health risks and health poverty alleviation practices in China: Review and prospects

Ruixin Li, Zhaohua Zhang

Abstract

Targeted poverty alleviation is an important means and strategic decision to eliminate poverty in China, and health poverty alleviation, as an important part of targeted poverty alleviation, has an irreplaceable role in poverty alleviation. Existing studies have found that health poverty is mainly triggered through the external environment and individual characteristics, and health risks such as natural risks, family risks, and social risks all affect the occurrence of poverty. This paper summarizes China’s health poverty alleviation policy evolution and practical effect and experience, and thinking about the future research trends of health poverty. It is important for the academia to provide theoretical support and prospective analysis before policy formulation, and has important reference significance for the accurate formulation and smooth implementation of policies in the political circles, and at the same time, it is also of great practical significance for the formulation of health poverty alleviation policies in the new era, and for preventing the people who have been lifted out of poverty from falling back into poverty and consolidating the results of the poverty alleviation campaign.


Keywords

health risk; health poverty alleviation; policy practice; prospect

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