Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 8 , Pages 754-761, August 2008

One country, two systems: Public health in China☆

Institute of Health Sciences, Hong Kong

Received 14 April 2008; accepted 21 April 2008.

Summary 

This paper, presented in Lisbon in May 2007, uses the framework of the three domains of public health practice—namely, health protection, health improvement and health services—as a reference to outline some of the main current public health challenges in Hong Kong and Mainland China [Griffiths S, Jewell T, Donnelly P. Public health in practice: the three domains of public health. Public Health 2005;119:907–13.1].

Keywords: One country, Two systems, Public health, China

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☆ This paper is revised version of the paper presented at the first international conference of the journal Public Health in Lisbon, May 2007.

PII: S0033-3506(08)00121-2

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2008.04.015

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 8 , Pages 754-761, August 2008

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