OBJECTIVE Since 2003, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the Ministry of Health) has implemented changes to more effectively communicate risk during public health emergencies. In spite of ongoing improvements, provincial and sub-provincial leaders face barriers, such as established modes of operation, lack of training, shortage of trained risk communicators, an...

Suicide rates in China have in the past been reported to be very low for a variety of historical and political reasons. In recent years, however, the reported suicide rates in China have increased alarmingly among certain age groups. This article reviews reports of the national rural suicide rates in China for 1992, gathered from the Annal of Chinese Public Health, which has previously never be...

Although, to our knowledge, there has been no exhaustive or credible review of the evidence of the disease burden of COPD in China, COPD has become an increasing public health concern to the Chinese medical community. The purpose of this article is to review the evidence and evaluate and clarify the disease burden of COPD in China with the aim of improving effective management. We reviewed prev...

background: angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic public health concern that causes human severe eosinophilic meningitis in southeast asia and china. as a medically important intermediate host of a. cantonensis , bellamya lithophaga (gastrop-oda: viviparidae) is often confused with other morphologically similar sibling spe-cies of genus bellamya , such as b. aeruginosa and b. purificata in ...

A national AIDS program evaluation system has been applied to the ranking of the performance of involved public health organizations in China since 2007. The system provides quantitative performance comparison information based on automatic mining of the data stored in a unified web-based national information system, China AIDS Comprehensive Response Information Management System (the CRIMS). H...

background: naegleria is a free-living amoeba, and pathogenic naegleria may pose a health risk to people exposed to recreational water. our objective in this study was to determine if there are pathogenic amoebae in environmental water samples from changchun, northeastern china. methods: during july to september 2012, a total of 70 water samples were collected from changchun, northeastern china...

1 State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China 2 Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 3 World Health Organization, Public Health, Social and Environmental Determinants of Health, Interventions for Healthy Environments, Geneva, Switzerland 4 D...