Hukou and Health Care: Some Unintended Consequences of Purposive Action

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10.2991/978-2-38476-259-0_90How to use a DOI?

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COVID-19; hukou; healthcare; purposive action; unintended consequences

Abstract

In January 2020, a new virus first hit Wuhan city in Central China’s Hubei province, and was named COVID-19. It quickly spread to the whole world in the following months and now it has become a global pandemic causing medical and economic challenges on an unprecedented scale. Evidence shows that human migration and large public gatherings can spread the virus and that is why most countries where COVID-19 has broken out are imposing “lockdown” restrictions and advising citizens to maintain “social distance” between themselves and other people. Changes in the Chinese hukou system of internal migration, together with reforms to the health care provisions, have had several intended positive results, including easing the strains of rapid urbanization and improving the outcome of sustained economic growth. However, there were also significant unintended consequences from these reforms, for large sections of the population, during the spread of the coronavirus.

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AU  - Xiaoping Luo
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/06/21
TI  - Hukou and Health Care: Some Unintended Consequences of Purposive Action
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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