TY - JOUR ID - 3045 TI - Shanghai’s Track Record in Population Health Status: What Can Explain It?; Comment on “Shanghai Rising: Health Improvements as Measured by Avoidable Mortality Since 2000” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Cheng, Tsung-Mei AD - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 4 IS - 9 SP - 631 EP - 632 KW - Population Health KW - Primary Care KW - Public Health in China KW - Universal Health Coverage KW - Leadership KW - Chinese Health Reform DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.117 N2 - Health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. In their paper “Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000,” Gusmano et al suggest that Shanghai’s health policy-makers have been successful in reducing avoidable mortality among Shanghai’s 14.9 million (2010) registered residents through these policy measures. It is a plausible hypothesis, but the data the authors cite also would be compatible with alternative hypotheses, as the comparison they make with trends in amenable mortality-rate (AM) in large cities in other parts of the world suggests. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3045.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3045_5450af37bad98d35f60d40efdb2d1384.pdf ER -