Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. A pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on 31 December 2019. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. On 11 February 2020, WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus di...

Paralleled with the rapid socio-economic development and demographic transition, an epidemic of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) has emerged in China over the past three decades, resulting in increased disease and economic burdens. Over the past decade, with a political commitment of implementing universal health coverage, China has strengthened its primary healthcare system and increas...

doi: 10.3967/bes2015.113 This work was supported by the Research Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry of Health (201402008). 1. Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing 100050, China; 2. Neurosurgical Department of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing 100050, China; 3. Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders Brain Tumor Center, Beijing 100050, China; 4. Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050...

Background This article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental and public health performance in the world system.   Methods In multiple standard ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models, we tested the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services, on the following indicators of sustainable develop...

Background: China is undergoing rapid socioeconomic transitions. Demographically, its population is aging rapidly. Epidemiologically, it is shifting from infectious to chronic diseases. In addition, China is facing a widening income gap between the rural and urban population. This qualitative study focused on older persons with chronic illness living in rural and urban China. We aimed to unders...

Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Jinan, China Department of Emergency Medicine and Center of Chest Pain, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China Department of Cardiology, Shandong Province Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospit...

BACKGROUND China is reforming and restructuring its health insurance system to achieve the goal of universal coverage. This study aims to understand the determinants of public, private and multiple insurance coverage among people of retirement-age in China. METHODS We used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey 2011 and 2013, a nationally representative survey of Chines...

Using HIV/AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and avian influenza as case studies, this paper discusses the processes and dilemmas of China's participation in health governance, both at the domestic level and the global level. Globalization has eroded the boundary between public and private health and between domestic and global health governance. In addition, the SARS outbreak of 2...

HIV self-testing has yet to scale up, with one exception – China. Approximately one-third of men who have sex with men (MSM) report HIV self-testing in China, with many of these self-tests representing the first time that the men ever tested [1]. HIV self-testing scale-up may be related to unmet demand, self-testing partnerships and local entrepreneurship. First, the centralised, facility-based...