%0 Journal Article %T 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” %J International Journal of Health Policy and Management %I Kerman University of Medical Sciences %Z 2322-5939 %A Cheng, Tsung-Mei %D 2015 %\ 09/01/2015 %V 4 %N 9 %P 631-632 %! 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” %K Population Health %K Primary Care %K Public Health in China %K Universal Health Coverage %K Leadership %K Chinese Health Reform %R 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.117 %X 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. %U https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3045_5450af37bad98d35f60d40efdb2d1384.pdf