Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China An Interdisciplinary Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Islam, MD. Nazrul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.

This book addresses contemporary public health challenges in China from an interdisciplinary perspective. These challenges include health service system, population ageing, food safety, substance abuse and its prevention and treatment, Buddhist delivery of elderly care, the development of profession...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Challenges to Health Service System in China: Institutional and financial reforms
• Food safety Challenges in China
• Challenge of Population Ageing on Health
• Integrating Chinese Medicine in public health: Contemporary trend and challenges
• State-Religion Partnership: Delivery of Eldercare in Asia
• Substance Abuse and Its Prevention and Treatment in Macao
• Development of Healthcare Social Work in China.