Editorial Introduction
The December 2013 issue of China Health Review includes an interview with Dr. WANG Yu (Director, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention), a perspective article by Dr. Neil Lunt and Prof. Ki Nam Jin, and a special interview with Professor Hengjin Dong.
In the Interview section, Dr. Wang Yu, director of China CDC, recounts his education and career path, shares his views of China CDC’s achievements in the last decade, as well as CDC’s mid-term and long-term goals. Dr. Wang also discusses the impact of China’s Healthcare Reform on public health, prevention strategy for chronic diseases, and China CDC’s major international collaborative projects.
In the Perspective section, Dr. Neil Lunt and Prof. Ki Nam Jin discuss the drivers, size and scope of medical tourism. They describe the experiences from Korea and UK to showcase commonalities and distinctions of medical tourism treatments and their destinations. The authors also illustrate payment mechanism, potential challenges, and China’s current medical tourism to Korea.
In the Special Interview section, Professor Hengjin Dong, Associate Editor of BMC Health Services Research and member of the editorial board of Pharmacoeconomics, provides a brief summary of the scope and focus of BMC Health Services Research and its manuscript reviewing process. He also offers his thoughts and suggestions to researchers from China.
Research Twitter provides brief summaries of articles with topics spanning from occupational exposure to magnetic fields, dietary intake and coronary heart disease, impact of government control on public hospitals on healthcare supply, health insurance reform in rural china, latent tuberculosis infection, impact of National Essential Medicines Policy on prescribing behaviors, engaging sub-national governments in addressing health equities, perinatal risk factors for young adults’ suicide, alcohol use and respiratory disease, workplace capital and smoking, to metabolic syndrome.
Policy Practice and Updates includes six updates concerning topics including private funding of the elder care service industry, evaluation of county-level pilot sites for public health reform, pilot sites for using New Rural Cooperative fund to cover catastrophic illness insurance, health cooperative agreement between Hebei and Beijing, rural Anhui residents’ access to inpatient care outside Anhui, and national and provincial pilot Information systems for New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme.
In About CHPAMS, we introduce to you recent career and professional updates for Prof. Youfa Wang and Prof. Xi Chen, and recent publications lead-authored by CHPAMS members.
We wish you a prosperous New Year in 2014! Enjoy Reading!
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2013年12月刊《中国卫生评论》除常规栏目外，还包括中国国家疾控中心主任王宇博士的访谈， Neil Lunt博士和秦基南博士的观点文章， 以及对董恒进教授的专访。
在访谈部分，中国国家疾控中心主任王宇博士讲述了他早年的教育和工作经历，以及在中国疾控中心度过的十年。王宇博士分享了过去十年间中国疾控中心取得的成就，以及未来发展的中期和长期目标。此外，王宇博士还介绍了中国医疗改革对公共卫生的影响、中国慢病防治战略，以及中国国家疾控中心的重点国际合作项目。
在观点文章部分，Neil Lunt博士和秦基南博士讨论了医疗旅游业的医疗旅游的驱动来源、规模和服务范围。作者通过韩国和英国的相关经验，阐述了多样化的医疗旅游业及其所在地的共性和区别。此外，作者还介绍了医疗旅游业的付费机制、潜在的挑战和中国目前的医疗旅游业现状。
在专访栏目，《BMC卫生服务研究》副主编、《药物经济学》编辑委员会成员董恒进教授讲述了《BMC卫生服务研究》的刊物特点和审稿流程，并向中国的作者和研究人员提供了他的观点和建议。
在研究动态部分，我们提供了11篇最新的文章的简介。其主题包括：工作环境中的磁场暴露、膳食摄入与冠心病、政府对公立医院的控制对医疗供给的影响，中国农村医保改革、潜伏结核感染、国家基本药物政策对药品消费行为的影响、地方政府参与解决医疗公正问题、围产期危险因素与年轻人自杀行为、饮酒与呼吸系统疾病、职场社会资本与吸烟行文，以及代谢综合症。
政策与新闻栏目提供了包括民资进入养老服务业将获扶持、县级公立医院改革试点评估、新农合基金购买大病保险试点、河北与北京签署卫生合作协议、安徽农民省外定点医院住院政策、国家新农合信息平台试点等6个方面的最新消息。
在CHPAMS之声栏目，我们向您介绍王友发教授和陈希教授的近期工作和学术活动信息，以及CHPAMS成员近期发表的文章。
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