Geographical Locations - China

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 648

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) in Manila (Philippines)
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – China
• United Nations - China

Government

• Chinese Ecosystem Research Network
• Ministry of Education
• National Environmental Protection Agency
• National Office of Statistics
• National Population and Family Planning Commission of China
• State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Non-Government

• Can China Feed Itself? A System for Evaluation of Policy Options - "The core of this application (provided by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) is an integrated analysis of China's food prospects that takes into account biophysical, climatic, hydrological, demographic, social, economic, and political dimensions. In addition, a broad range of related data sets were selected, have been converted into tables, maps, satellite images, and charts, and are here merged into an interactive hypertext document"
• China Environment and Development Information - "created by the Institute of Environment and Development (IED), a Chinese NGO in Beijing. It is designed as an information resource and also a knowledge system about China's environment and development and development issues. We collect the information from officially published media in China, aiming to enhance the public awareness in this challenging area and provide the interested people and groups with the solutions to the environment problems in this country"
• Community Aid Abroad : China
• HealthNet : China
• Hong Kong Dental Association
• Hong Kong Medical Association
• Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health

Academic Institutions

• Beijing Medical University : School of Public Health
• China Education and Research Network
  - Project Hope - a social welfare program from 1989, to raise much-needed funds for the improvement of educational condition in China's poor areas and promote youth development in China (by CYDF).
• China Health and Nutrition Survey : Map of Survey Regions - information page from CPC at UNC, Chapel Hill (USA)
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
  -Department of Community and Family Medicine
  -School of Public Health
• Hong Kong : Department of Community Medicine & Unit for Behavioural Sciences
• Peking Union Medical College
• Medical Centre of Fundan University - formerly Shanghai Medical University : School of Public Health - with outlines of the different departments

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• A Comparison of the Health Systems in China and India
  "In this [2008] paper, the authors [Sai Ma and Neeraj Sood] compare the health systems of China and India — the world’s two most populous countries, each of which is undergoing dramatic demographic, societal, and economic transformations — to determine what approaches to improving health in these two countries do and do not work. In particular, we compare the health systems of China and India along three dimensions: policy levers, intermediate outcomes, and ultimate ends. Policy levers are policies or behaviors that affect the financing, organization, and regulation of health care. Intermediate outcomes are the efficiency, quality, and level of access to care. The ultimate ends of a health care system are to promote better health, reduce the financial risks associated with medical care, and increase consumer satisfaction. This paper identifies priority areas for reform in each country that can help improve the performance of each health system. Both countries must (i) restructure health care financing to reduce the burden of out-of-pocket medical care costs on individual patients; (ii) increase access to care, especially in rural areas; (iii) reduce dependence on fee-for-service contracts that promote overutilization of medical care; (iv) build capacity for addressing and monitoring emerging diseases; and (v) match hospital capabilities with local needs."

Educational Resources

• Chinese Medical Journal
• Chinese Public Health Posters - The U.S. National Library of Medicine houses one of the world's largest history of medicine collections. It collects, preserves, and makes available to researchers and the public, print and non-print materials that document the history of medicine, health, and disease in all time periods and cultures. This page provides links to Chinese public health posters from a range of historical periods and covering a variety of topics.
• WWW Virtual Library: China
• CDC - Travel Information : East Asia
• China Dimensions - This site has been developed by the China Task Team of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) of the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) under contract NAS5-32632 to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• China Today
• Health Services Delivery in China: A Literature Review - This paper reports the results of a review of the Chinese-language and English-language literatures on service delivery in China, asking how well China’s health care providers perform, what determines their performance, and how the government can improve it. It finds current performance leaves room for improvement, in terms of quality, responsiveness to patients, efficiency, cost escalation, and equity. The literature suggests that these problems will not be solved by simply shifting ownership to the private sector, or by simply encouraging providers—public and private—to compete with one another for individual patients. By contrast, substantial improvements could be (and in some places have already been) made by changing the way providers are paid—shifting away from fee-for-service and the distorted price schedule toward prospective payments. Active purchasing by insurers could further improve outcomes.
• Library of Congress, Country Study: China
• Xinhua News Agency - the official news agency of the Chinese Government