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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2015

Shanghai's Track Record in Population Health Status: What Can Explain It? Comment on "Shanghai Rising: Health Improvements as Measured by Avoidable Mortality Since 2000".

Tsung-Mei Cheng

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Cities and Health: A Response to the Recent Commentaries.International journal of health policy and management · 2015
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Tsung-Mei ChengWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. In their paper "Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000," Gusmano et al suggest that Shanghai's health policy-makers have been successful in reducing avoidable mortality among Shanghai's 14.9 million (2010) registered residents through these policy measures. It is a plausible hypothesis, but the data the authors cite also would be compatible with alternative hypotheses, as the comparison they make with trends in amenable mortality-rate (AM) in large cities in other parts of the world suggests.

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Chinese Health ReformLeadershipPopulation HealthPrimary CarePublic Health in ChinaUniversal Health Coverage

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PMID26340497
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