Modern Catholic Church In Zhili (Hebei) Medical And Health Services Research

From the perspective of regional social history, research areas of modern set up the Catholic Church in Zhili's health cause. Zhili the Catholic Church through the medical and health services, development, evolution of the investigation, the cause of Catholic health care due to the objective of the social impact of Zhili, and then analyze the cause of medical and health social changes in modern Zhili.Zhili areas of Christianity in the introduction can be traced back in the Tang Dynasty Nestorian, and then in the Yuan Dynasty also be temperature Education (commonly known as Nestorian and Catholic), Ming and Qing dynasties of the Catholic Church have been introduced. Introduction of Christianity through rough times, ups and downs, but still stubbornly preserving. Modern times, with the unequal treaties of the sanctuary, began a large-scale introduction Catholic. A large number of missionaries came to preach in Zhili District activities, they rely on the backing of Western powers, powerful preaching, aroused strong dissatisfaction with the people, causing widespread social resistance to missionary work difficult, with little success. Mission for the sake of convenience, the Catholic Church began to set up various charities, such as medical and health services, education, child-care Salesian utilities. In these causes, medical and health services is the founder of early missionary work in the best interests of a charity. Chinese medical and health conditions were very backward, and Catholic culture itself has a long tradition of health care and heavy, but also missionaries in missionary health facilities scattered medicine, missionary work to be carried out smoothly. Their doctors and auxiliary facilities for the Catholic missionary activities in China, the rise of medical and health services.In modern times, China has gradually become a semi-colonial countries, the traditional medical technology stagnation, the abnormal development of the traditional medical system, the development of medical and health services for the Church to provide a certain space, as part of the Catholic missionary work in the medical and health areas to start fast Zhili development. To meet the various needs of the church, holding a wide variety of medical and health institutions, such as clinics and hospitals. Not only that, the church health institutions also roving medical, health and epidemic prevention, the ravages of war and rescue and medical education, and other medical and health activities. Zhili hold the Catholic Church in the modern medical and health has gone through a long process of evolution, it Zhili hold on modern society had a major impact, promoting a regional medical and health services Zhili modernization. However, as with some modern colonial church, the Church will inevitably affect the health care industry. In this regard, the Catholic Church to make some positive response to self adaptation. Medical Mission after the psychological health, and gradually tend to localization, secular, its political color, religion, color increasingly diluted, and the oncoming relationship between society and the growing harmony of Chinese society, the process of modernization in Zhili played an important role in .Zhili Catholic Alliance and the medical and health facilities have the dual function of health, in preaching the gospel at the same time, the objective of social Zhili also had a positive impact. It is to some extent, the public health concepts to promote a change in Zhili, changing the people behind the concept of personal and public health, but also on foot binding, opium and other ugly vulgar strongly opposed to the wind and try to get rid of, for the progress of civilization and social development have a certain role in promoting. The establishment of the church health institutions has improved to some extent, medical and health conditions of the backward Zhili, and the medical system into modern Western Zhili, constitutes a challenge to traditional Chinese medical system, and aroused the public's awareness of change, promoting Modern medical and health Zhili. Zhili Catholic Church in Modern Times in Chinese and Western medical and health institutions play an important role in the exchange, which brought not only advanced Western medical knowledge and medical technology, promoting the development of Zhili modern health care, and many missionaries also studied Chinese medicine, Chinese books, etc. through an interpreter to the Western propaganda to introduce Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is conducive to the world, encouraging reform and development of their own medicine. Although the founder of the Catholic Church has a missionary medical and health purposes and motives, there are some limitations, but from an objective point of view, indeed the cause of modern health care and social development Zhili played a positive role. It also left us some important inspiration for the development of health care in contemporary China have provided a historical experience and lessons learned.