On The Returned Medical Students From America And Modern China Public Health Cause

The returned medical students from America had played a decisive role in the course of modernization of public health cause .The movement of sending returned medical students from America began in Late Qing Dynasty,developing and expanding in Beiyang Government Period, the Second Civil Revolutionary War Period, Anti-Japanese War Period, and reached the zenith after Anti-Japanese War. As a result of modern society, the group of returned medical students from America had a deep mark of era in gender form, area distribution, level of record of formal schooling, speciality form. Modern medicine is the scientific base of public health cause. The returned medical students from America had greatly contributed to discipline composition and development of modern medicine and become the important founders of modern medicine. As the same time, in modern China they had played important role in health system construction, women and baby health, environment health, nutrition health, and so on. Especially in epidemic prevention. The returned medical students from America had widely taken part in the public health practice of modern society, starting city and countryside public health causes, launching war rescue activity actively.By studying the group of the returned medical students from America and the relation of this group and modern public health cause, This paper analyses the contribution in public health cause the returned medical students from America had done with the theories of social history and interdisciplinary research methods.