Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement from Hong Kong and Beyond

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context. The WHO declaration of "Health for All by the Year 2000" mapped out a road towards primary health care for all people and demarcated it as essential for human progress in terms of economic development and social justice. However, 45 years have gone by, and most societies and countries have yet achieved 'health for all', despite so much having changed in technology, disease patterns, and population demographics. In promoting community health and improving service delivery, the book advocates the development and implementation of "All For Health" strategies to steer stakeholders in the right direction towards universal health care. The book covers the gaps and actions in health improvements, the 'All For Health' strategies, and the Health in All Policies (HiAP), reviewing and discussing issues through both Asian and international examples. Contributors include both academics and practitioners from diverse professional backgrounds including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, dietetics, social sciences, life sciences, education, business, administration, law, and public policy. Essential to scholars in public health and related disciplines, this book is also useful to policymakers, community and public health practitioners, and health care executives and interns.

Auteur

Dr. Ben Yuk Fai Fong had his medical training at the University of Sydney, where he had also completed a Master's in Public Health. He is a specialist in Community Medicine and is currently the Professor of Practice (Health Studies) and Associate Division Head of the Division of Science, Engineering, and Health Studies, and Director of the Centre for Ageing and Healthcare Management Research of the College of Professional and Continuing Education at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the two local medical schools in Hong Kong, the School of Chinese Medicine and the Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine as well as an Honorary Research Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. Dr. William Chi Wai Wong is a family medicine specialist as well as an educator and untiring advocate in Family Medicine and Primary Care.He has worked extensively in hospitals and local communities in the UK, Australia, China, and Hong Kong for over 25 years. He is currently Chairperson and Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, the University of Hong Kong with concurrent appointments at Department of Family Medicine at Hospital Authority, Hong Kong and HKU-Shenzhen Hospital. A well-recognised world leader in Family Medicine, Dr. Wong actively engaged with the WHO and WONCA- contributed to the Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections as well as a number of WHO guidelines on HIV/ sexual health issues.