Healthcare reform in China is absolutely pushed along by people, not politicians
Over on China/Divide I received a few comments about my post "Healthcare Knowledge as a Catalyst for Change in China". I submitted a response to one of the comments worthy of a stand alone post.
The yellow tie Gravatar that the commenter, King Tubby, is referring to has been replaced with a cleaner suit. I've attached the offending picture here, however, so that it does not appear I am overly sensitive to friendly internet banter.
Talkin’ about Peer Review
I haven't yet had the pleasure of going through the peer review process but my wife has been trying to get a paper published for the last three years - a time period that is perfectly normal for a medical science paper - and she must have gone through at least a dozen or so final drafts of the paper.
Better healthcare knowledge could be a powerful agent of societal change in Asia
Last week the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health published a study based on data in the 2008 National Health Services Survey of China, which found that falls in the home are the leading cause of injury among elderly in China. The findings in of themselves are not the kind of thing that will make the front page of a major newspaper, but the study is an example of quite a remarkable trend.
India Should Further Study Superbug Claims, Not Blame UK Scientists
Sorry Indian MPs, claims like this are not made lightly by scientists or one of the most highly respected medical journals in the world. And, if for some strange reason the Lancet decided it was going to publish study findings based on maliciously distorted information just so that the UK could somehow claim political superiority [...]
WSJ: China’s Smoking Habit Wrap Up