[EQ] Health System Reform in China

The Lancet Series on Health System Reform in China

 

Website: http://www.thelancet.com/online/focus/china.collection

 

“…..A scientific collaboration on China and global health launched by The Lancet, Peking University Health Sciences Centre, and the China Medical Board, was launched in Beijing on Oct 20, 2008.

 

This Series-focusing on health-system Reform in China - consists of 19 commissioned research papers that bring together the most recent scientific evidence on China's major health challenges, its health strategies, and China's health future. The Series was produced by a team of 63 scientists, with Chinese scientists constituting two-thirds of the authors, collaborating with an international team from 10 countries.

 

The purpose of this collaboration is to introduce China's health system, achievements, and predicaments to the world and to foster scientific and institutional alliances that can strengthen the health - and ameliorate the adverse social and environmental determinants of health - of the Chinese people….."

 

Full collection of China Series available at:

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China and global health
Qide Han, Lincoln Chen, Tim Evans, Richard Horton - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61350-1) Full Text

Biomedical science and technology in China
Zhu Chen - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61352-5) Full Text

Evolution of China's health-care system
Zhe Dong, Michael R Phillips - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61351-3) Full Text

Traditional Chinese medicine
Jin-Ling Tang, Bao-Yan Liu, Kan-Wen Ma - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61354-9) Full Text

Anthropology in China's health promotion and tobacco
Shuiyuan Xiao, Matthew Kohrman - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61361-6) Full Text

Reproductive health in China: improve the means to the end
Jing Fang, Joan Kaufman - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61356-2) Full Text

China's HIV/AIDS epidemic: continuing challenges
Kong-Lai Zhang, Roger Detels, Susu Liao, Myron Cohen, Dong-Bao Yu - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61357-4)
Full Text

Schistosomiasis control: experiences and lessons from China
Longde Wang, Jürg Utzinger, Xiao-Nong Zhou - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61358-6) Full Text

China's barefoot doctor: past, present, and future
Daqing Zhang, Paul U Unschuld - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61355-0)
Full Text

Medical research ethics in China
Ruotao Wang, Gail E Henderson - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61353-7)
Full Text

Government policy and organ transplantation in China
Jiefu Huang, Yilei Mao, J Michael Millis - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61359-8)
Full Text

Internal migration and health in China
Xiaojiang Hu, Sarah Cook, Miguel A Salazar - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61360-4)
Full Text

 

Series

Tackling the challenges to health equity in China
Shenglan Tang, Qingyue Meng, Lincoln Chen, Henk Bekedam, Tim Evans, Margaret Whitehead - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61364-1)
Summary | Full Text

Emergence and control of infectious diseases in China
Longde Wang, Yu Wang, Shuigao Jin, Zunyou Wu, Daniel P Chin, Jeffrey P Koplan, Mary Elizabeth Wilson - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61365-3)
Summary | Full Text

Emergence of chronic non-communicable diseases in China
Gonghuan Yang, Lingzhi Kong, Wenhua Zhao, Xia Wan, Yi Zhai, Lincoln C Chen, Jeffrey P Koplan - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61366-5)
Summary | Full Text

Injury-related fatalities in China: an under-recognised public-health problem
SY Wang, YH Li, GB Chi, SY Xiao, J Ozanne-Smith, M Stevenson, MR Phillips - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61367-7)
Summary | Full Text

China's human resources for health: quantity, quality, and distribution
Sudhir Anand, Victoria Y Fan, Junhua Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Yang Ke, Zhe Dong, Lincoln C Chen - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61363-X)
Summary | Full Text

Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities
Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Maria-Luisa Escobar, David de Ferranti - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61368-9)
Summary | Full Text

China's health system performance
Yuanli Liu, Keqin Rao, Jing Wu, Emmanuela Gakidou - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61362-8)
Summary | Full Text

 

Perspectives

Han Qide: a medical and political leader in China
Margaret Harris Cheng - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61562-7)
Full Text

Chen Zhu: from barefoot doctor to China's Minister of Health
Jonathan Watts - (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61561-5)
Full Text

 

 

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[EQ] WHO: The Global Burden of Disease

The global burden of disease: 2004 update

World Health Organization WHO – October 2008

A response to the need for comprehensive, consistent and comparable information on diseases and injuries at global and regional level.

Website: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/2004_report_update/en/index.html

Full text PDF [160p.] at: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GBD_report_2004update_full.pdf

The global burden of disease: 2004 update is a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health for 135 causes by age and sex, drawing on extensive WHO databases and on information provided by Member States.

The  study provides a comprehensive picture of the global and regional state of health. Drawing from extensive data across the Organization, it features comparisons between deaths, diseases and injuries by region, age, sex and country income for the year 2004. It also provides projections of deaths and burden of disease by cause and region to the year 2030.

The study contains details of the top 10 causes of death and estimates for over 130 disease and injury causes. Striking findings include:

·         Worldwide, Africa accounts for nine out of every 10 child deaths due to malaria, for nine out of every 10 child deaths due to AIDS, and for half of the world's child deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and pneumonia.

·         The top five causes of death in low-income countries are: pneumonia, followed by heart disease, diarrhoea, HIV/AIDS and stroke. In high-income countries, the list is topped by heart disease and followed by stroke, lung cancer, pneumonia, and asthma/bronchitis.

·         Men between the ages of 15 and 60 years have much higher risks of dying than women in the same age category in every region of the world. This, is mainly due to injuries, including those caused in violence and conflict, and to higher levels of heart diseases. This difference is most pronounced in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the eastern European regions.

·         Depression is the leading cause of years lost due to disability, the burden being 50% higher for females than males. In both low- and middle-income countries, and high-income countries, alcohol dependence and problem use are among the 10 leading causes of disability.

The production and dissemination of health information for action is one of WHO's core mandated activities. This study provides Member States with an important input for health decision making, planning and priority setting.

The study contains information on:

·         causes of death in different parts of the world

·         the leading causes of death by age, sex and disease

·         the numbers of people with various diseases and disabilities

·         how many people become ill each year

·         the causes of loss of health and the actual loss of years of good health: these are measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). One DALY is equivalent to the loss of one year of full health.

NOTE FOR THE MEDIA

Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish

OTHER MATERIALS ON THE REPORT

10 facts on the GBD | Top 10 causes of death fact sheet | Key figures and graphs [ppt 1.74Mb]

THE REPORT IN SECTIONS

:: Part 1: Introduction [pdf 577kb]
:: Part 2: Causes of death [pdf 635kb]
:: Part 3: Disease incidence, prevalence and disability [pdf 247kb]
:: Part 4: Burden of disease: DALYs [pdf 395kb]
:: Annex A: Deaths and DALYs 2004 Annex tables [pdf 581kb]
:: Annex B: Data sources and methods [pdf 300kb]
:: Annex C: Analysis categories and mortality data sources [pdf 224kb]
:: References [pdf 144kb]

STATISTICS FROM THE REPORT

:: Regional estimates of YLL, YLD, and DALYs, deaths, incidence and prevalence for 2004
:: Regional projections of deaths and DALYs for 2008, 2015, and 2030

 

 

 

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