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Covers an up-to-date publication on public health strategies, service delivery, and policies
Features contributions by academics and practitioners in areas of public health and the social sciences
Is an essential tool for students, interns, and professionals in public health services, planning, and development
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Review of “Health for all by 2000”
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Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement
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The All for Health Strategies
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement from Hong Kong and Beyond
Book Subtitle: All for Health
Editors: Ben Yuk Fai Fong, William Chi Wai Wong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4491-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4490-3Published: 14 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4493-4Due: 28 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4491-0Published: 13 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 524
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Health Care Management, Public Health, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development