March 15th, 2021
Between 2002 and 2003, a coronavirus epidemic broke out in China and spread across the world, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing about 800.
The 2002-2003 epidemic drastically changed the structure of China’s health services. The book Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic, by Katherine A. Manson published in 2016 analyzes the these transformations and their impacts on public health in that country.
The book investigates local Chinese public health institutions in Southeastern China, examining how the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) re-imagined public health.
Researchers of Unicamp, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Jonatan Sacramento and Maria Conceição da Costa reviewed the book in HCSM (vol.27 no.4 Oct./Dec. 2020).
Read in HCS-Manguinhos:
Sacramento, Jonatan and Costa, Maria Conceição da. Reinventing Chinese public health after a SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)/Coronavirus epidemic. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Oct 2020, vol.27, no.4, p.1377-1379. ISSN 0104-5970
