Women's health in rural China.

摘要

China's sheer size, along with its ongoing economic and cultural metamorphosis, creates enormous challenges in health care. Cervical cancer and breast cancer are major threats to women's health, with the 100 000 new cervical cancer cases recorded in China every year accounting for 29% of the world's total. Worryingly, cervical cancer incidence is greater in women younger than 30 years in China than it is in developed countries, and the disease is over-represented in rural areas-owing to lack of education, poverty, and inability to pay for health care.