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Integrating Chinese Medicine in Public Health: Contemporary Trend and Challenges

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Health service delivery has become one of the major concerns for the government and citizens in China, not only because of the poor condition compared to developed countries but also for the slow pitch of improvement.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This information was based on the programs offered by Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. Retrieved from the following link: http://www.bucm.edu.cn/portal/media-type/html/group/en/page/default.psml/js_pane/P-1270a6cdfd7-1000e Accessed on December 26, 2014.

  2. 2.

    Retrieved from the http://www.gfmer.ch/TMCAM/Hypertension/Education_Traditional_Chinese_Medicine_China.htm Accessed on December 11, 2014.

  3. 3.

    Ibid, Retrieved from the following link: http://www.bucm.edu.cn/eapdomain/ViewNote?ptid=2&nid=32642&unchecked=true Accessed on December 26, 2014.

  4. 4.

    State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国国家中医药管理局). (2012). The statistics of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Retrieved from the following link:http://www.satcm.gov.cn/1999-2011/atog/2012/B02.htm Accessed on March 19, 2014.

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    Ibid.

  7. 7.

    Name of the practitioner has not been disclosed because of the privacy policy.

  8. 8.

    Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China Web page. Retrieved from the http://yss.mof.gov.cn/ Accessed in March 22, 2014.

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    This calculation was done by the author based on the above figure.

  11. 11.

    Name of the practitioner has not been disclosed because of privacy reason.

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Acknowledgment

I acknowledge my student assistants WANG Jieyu from 2008 cohort; TAN Yue from 2010 cohort; LIN Weitong and FENG Zhanjun from 2011 cohort for their sincere cooperation and hard work during data collection, transcription, and translation. I also acknowledge Miss ZHANG Yuanhong from Guangzhou city for her kind support and arranging conversations with Chinese Medicine students. This project could not move forward without their assistance and sincere effort. I also acknowledge United International College, a consortium of the Beijing Normal University–Hong Kong Baptist University for providing a college research grant for the pursuance of this study.

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Islam, M.N. (2016). Integrating Chinese Medicine in Public Health: Contemporary Trend and Challenges. In: Islam, M. (eds) Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47753-3_5

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