- Title
- Perspectives on the training of Chinese Primary Health Care Physicians to reduce chronic illnesses and their burden
- Creator
- Sun, Wenmin; Li, Yang; Hu, Yitting; Rao, Xin; Xu, Xingzhi; Browning, Colette; Thomas, Shane
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/170495
- Identifier
- vital:14183
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00168
- Identifier
- ISBN:2296-2565
- Abstract
- This paper is a commentary on the training of Chinese Primary Health Care Doctors to reduce chronic illness and its burden. First, we will consider the policy position of the Chinese government concerning the development of a competent and enlarged primary physician workforce to deliver the proposed primary health care system reforms. We then turn to a review of the drivers of the high burden of chronic illnesses especially in older people in China. We argue that the curriculum for the training of primary health care medical practitioners should match the demonstrated high prevalence chronic illnesses and their risk factors and that there needs to specific competencies in prevention and mitigation of the diseases and their risk factors.
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A.
- Relation
- Frontiers in Public Health Vol. 7, no. (2019), p. 1-7
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2019 Sun, Li, Hu, Rao, Xu, Browning and Thomas. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Chinese primary health care physicians; Training; Chronic illness; China; Burden of disease
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