China's engagement with global health diplomacy: Was SARS a watershed?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Chan, Lai Ha ^a   Chen, Lucy ^b   Xu, Jin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIC; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH; HUMAN;

CHINA; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77951749376     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000266     Document Type: Article

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