Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed a significant threat to many countries. Since the disease does not currently have a particular treatment, there is a compelling need to find substitute means to dominate its expansion. In this rapid review, we aimed to determine some countries’ public responses to the COVID-19 epidemic.Methods: In this study, academ...

1 Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2 UNICEF Office for China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 3 Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 4 Department of Health Statistics and Social Medicine, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, People’s R...

a School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China b Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Severe Infectious Prevention and Control Technology, Guangzhou, China c Zhongshan Institute of School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China d School of Public Health and S...

After presenting the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in china, it has spread rapidly in the community and now has declared as a pandemic causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). At the date of writing this report, the COVID-19 has affected 192 countries and one international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan) around the world with the total cases of 341...

1Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China 2Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 3Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia 4Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia 5School of Public Health and Prevent...

Author affiliations: Centre for Medical Anthropology and Behavioral Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (J.T.F. Lau); Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China (J.T.F. Lau); Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (J.T.F. Lau, Z. Wang, Y. Kim, Q. Zhou, P. Cheng); Sun Yat-sen ...

1Fudan University, Shanghai, China; 2Jiangxi Province Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanchang, China; 3Future Position X, Gävle,, Sweden; 4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; 5Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Ins...

in this commentary, i argue that beyond a sophisticated supportive architecture to facilitate implementation of actions on the social determinants of health (sdoh) and health inequities, the health in all policies (hiap) project faces two main barriers: lack of awareness within policy networks on the social determinants of population health, and a tendency of health actors to neglect investing ...

1. Department of Health Economics & Outcomes Research, IMS Health Asia Pacific, Singapore 2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. 3. Department of Medical affairs, Pfizer China, Beijing, China 4. Department of Health Economics & Outcomes ...