Infectious change: reinventing Chinese public health after an epidemic | Katherine A. Mason

Between 2002 and 2003, a coronavirus epidemic broke out in China and spread across the world, infecting more than 8,000 people and causing approximately 10% of this contingent to die. In the months when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was active in China, severe sanitary measures were adopted, such as quarantines, isolation, the closing of public places, the use of large-scale diagnostic tests, and the construction of isolated health units in record time. The world has witnessed very similar protocols in China’s current fight against the SARS-Cov-2 epidemic in 2020.

The 2002-2003 epidemic drastically changed the structure of China’s health services. And the book Infectious change: reinventing Chinese public health after an epidemic , by Katherine A. Mason, published in 2016 by Stanford University Press, was written to bring to light and analyze these transformations and their impacts on public health in that country. Leia Mais