Nutrition and Healthcare for Children from Rural Tibetan Households

Zhu Ling

Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract:  Three major programs have been implemented in rural Tibetan areas in order to improve children’s nutrition and healthcare, namely antenatal care, infant and young child feeding, as well as school feeding. In terms of effectiveness of service provision, the school feeding program has been put into practice more effectively than the other two for two reasons. First, rural Tibetan families are accustomed to traditional infant and young child feeding practices. Secondly, the lack of incentives for healthcare workers and the shortage of funding have hindered the provision of healthcare to rural families. Therefore, this paper proposes an adjustment of the incentive structure for healthcare providers, a fortification of the village level network of healthcare services, an improvement in the approach to healthcare education for farmers and herders, and the coordination of training courses targeted at the officials and service teams of the healthcare system.
Keywords: Tibetan children, rural families, nutrition and healthcare

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