ICS-CSMCH Public Health Research Portal

The Resource Portal on Public Health in China is a repository of materials consisting of peer-reviewed articles, working papers, primary sources, books, and reports. It has been compiled to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students and established scholars interested in exploring and researching public health in China. Most of the references pertain to the period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It covers the Mao period and later developments that include liberalization and health sector reforms from the late 1970s. The resource portal will include all the published materials that have been put together in the ICS health unit and as a part of the course on Comparative Health Systems offered by Prof Baru at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

This database, compiled under the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) and the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, focuses primarily on resources on public health and medicine in China. This portal is dedicated to expanding the scope of China Studies in Public Health and assisting scholars interested in engaging with this area. The portal has tried to address a variety of domains in public health research which include the following:

1. Introduction to Public Health

2. History of Medicine: 

- Role of Medical Missionaries

3. Health System:

- Health Inequalities

- Insurance

- Health Sector Reform

- Health Financing

- Services

4. Gender and Health

5. Elderly Care

6. Urbanization and Health

7. Population Control and Family Planning

8. Non-Communicable Diseases

9. Communicable Diseases:

- Hookworm

- Malaria

- Tuberculosis

10. Role of Foreign Funding to the Health Sector

11. Other Resources: 

- CSMCH/Doc Cell Repository

- JNU