Reinventing the Medical Nearby: A Study on the Reproduction of Medical Space in Border Ethnic Areas--Taking the Inner Mongolian Grassland Small Medicine Box as an Example

This paper focuses on medical resource accessibility in China's border ethnic areas, using Inner Mongolia's grassland medicine box model as a case study. It introduces spatial production theory and a “nearby” theory perspective into grassroots healthcare, proposing the concept of “medical nearby” . It reveals the mechanisms behind material space innovation, cultural space revival, and social space reshaping, exploring ways to enhance medical resource accessibility and recreate medical nearby in pastoral areas, aiming to improve healthcare access in China's border ethnic areas and contribute to resilient public health systems.