1Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Shanghai 10th People’s Hospital, University of Tongji, Shanghai 200072, China 2Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia 3Health Promotion Service, Sydney Local Health Districts, NSW 2050, Australia 4Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia 5School of P...

Mental health is a challenging public health issue worldwide and surveillance is crucial for it. However, mental health surveillance has not been developed until recently in certain developed countries; many other countries, especially developing countries, have poor or even no health information systems. This paper presents surveillance related to mental health in China, a developing country w...

1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China 2 Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China 3 Department of Nosocomial Infection Management and Disease Control, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, China 4 National Institute of Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, Chin...

1. School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 2. Research Center for Medicine and Social Development, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 3. The Innovation Center for Social Risk Governance in Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 4. School of Nursing, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 5. Children’s Hospital of...

the united states president’s emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar) emphasizes health systems strengthening as a cornerstone of programmatic success. health systems strengthening, among other things, includes effective capacity building for clinical care, administrative management and public health practice. avante zambéziais a district-level in-service training program for administrative sta...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis in China revealed not only the failures of the Chinese health-care system but also some fundamental structural deficiencies. A decentralized and fragmented health system, such as the one found in China, is not well-suited to making a rapid and coordinated response to public health emergencies. The commercial orientation of the health sector on...

Occupational Health Program and Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Geography, National Changhua University of...

Occupational Health Program and Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Geography, National Changhua University of...