China's health care use has not fully recovered after Zero-COVID policy, with rural regions lagging most

MedicalXpress | мая 20, 2026

A PLOS Medicine analysis led by Fred Hutch Cancer Center researchers quantified the enduring impact that China's health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic had on overall health care utilization. As the first country to report COVID-19 cases and implement infection control measures, and among the last to lift such policies, China's experience presented a unique opportunity to study the relationship between public health measures and health care access.