Strengthening China's Public Health Response System

From SARS to COVID-19

Jennifer Bouey

ResearchPosted on rand.org Apr 3, 2020Published in: American Journal of Public Health (2020). doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305654

Today, the world is experiencing a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. COVID-19 is the third disease from a coronavirus to cause a global outbreak, after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the second that emerged from China. During the 17 years between the SARS and the COVID-19 outbreaks, China has quadrupled its share of the world economy, lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and established a national health insurance system covering 95% of its 1.4 billion people. Will China's public heath response to a coronavirus epidemic be different this time?

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  • Copyright: American Public Health Association
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2020
  • Pages: 2
  • Document Number: EP-68127

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