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A documentary history of public health in Hong Kong /

The publication of this book marks the fifteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong in 2003. This documentary study, originating as a research project a year after the epidemic, is a comprehensive attempt to examine the development of public health in Hong Kong from 1841 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Yip, Ka-che, 1944- (Editor ), Huang, Wenjiang (Editor ), Liang, Yuansheng (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong [China] : The Chinese University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. 1841-1941. Settlements, urban development, and health issues
  • Government health policies and initiatives before 1941
  • The control of major diseases and epidemics before 1941
  • Local voluntarism, healing spaces, and medical education before 1941
  • part II. 1941-1993.
  • The Japanese occupation
  • Health issues and initiatives after 1945
  • Public health services and the control of major diseases and epidemics after 1945
  • Local and international philanthropic involvement in public health
  • Shifting paradigms in medical education and research : 1947-1993
  • Appendix. Public health in Hong Kong : a chronology (1841-2017).