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barefoot doctor
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bare·foot doctor (bârft)
n.
A lay health care worker, especially in rural China, trained in such activities as first aid, childbirth assistance, the dispensing of drugs, and preventive medicine.
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During the 1960s and the 1970s, women accounted for about 25 percent of those peasants selected to work in state enterprises, 20 percent of rural youth selected for further education in cities, 32 percent of the barefoot doctors, 40 percent of the rural teachers (minban jiaoshi), and perhaps as high as 30 percent of those peasants assigned to work in commune-brigade enterprises.
Rural non-agricultural development in post-reform China: growth, ... by Ho, Samuel P.S. / Pacific Affairs
The barefoot doctors made sure study participants took their vitamins and noted when someone developed cancer or died, whatever the cause.
Vitamin pills reduce cancer risk in China by Fackelmann, Kathy A. / Science News
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