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ReviewGlobal health journal (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2019

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity.

Ernest Tambo, Christopher Khayeka-Wandabwa, Grace Wagithi Muchiri, Yun-Na Liu, Shenglan Tang, Xiao-Nong Zhou

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Review in Global health journal (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Ernest TamboAfrica Disease Intelligence and Surveillance, Communication and Response (Afric DISCoR) Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Christopher Khayeka-WandabwaSchool of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Health Science Platform, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Grace Wagithi MuchiriInternational College of Business and Technology, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China.
Yun-Na LiuInternational College of Business and Technology, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China.
Shenglan TangDuke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Xiao-Nong ZhouNational Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unprecedented globalization of trade, travel, climate change, protectionism, and geopolitical populism, as well as pandemic health threats are no longer issues for a single nation. In the field of public health, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers immense opportunities for partnership and collective actions involving multiple countries to combat globalization-linked infectious and/or chronic diseases, emerging pandemics, and outbreaks of potential threats to both laboratory information management systems and health information management. The national and global health challenges have increasingly proved that economic prosperity cannot be achieved when huge knowledge and capacity gaps exist in health systems. There is thus a need for public health initiatives aimed at strengthening the health systems beyond sovereign borders to influence global geo-economics. We highlight situational insights that offer approaches and strategies for increasing public health investment and capacity development in the countries along the Belt and Road, enhancing public and global health cooperation alongside participation in disease control and elimination, promoting public health governance and data sharing for pandemic threats, and building shared values and benefits in public health through Sino-African cooperation and the BRI. Our approach also examines the values of the China's BRI in relation to public health, projections and initiatives for increasing new investment and development capacity in public health systems, and enhanced public and global health cooperation and participation toward the BRI's framework and scope.

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AfricaBelt and Road InitiativeChina aidCooperationPublic health

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