Overview of Foreign Public Health Emergency Management

Author: Yang Kaizhong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: A nation can learn more in a disaster than in ordinary times. Facing a new infectious disease like SARS, the Chinese government did not complain about fate but always placed the health and safety of the people in the first place, taking a series of decisive measures to prevent the spread of the disease within the country and to its overseas expansion. In the fight against SARS, we paid a significant price but also gained many insights. The book before the readers is a collection of our findings, studies, and discussions on emergency public health systems in foreign countries. We hope it will help more people understand the emergency public health systems of major countries abroad better, which in turn will benefit the establishment and improvement of our country's emergency public health system. The book consists of ten chapters. The first chapter introduces the basic concepts of emergency public health management, while the remaining chapters describe the emergency public health systems of major countries abroad.