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The Centre for Health Protection is an agency under the Department of Health in Hong Kong responsible for disease prevention and control. CHP plays the same role and function as the Centers for Disease Control in the United States, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in the European Union (EU).
The Center for Environmental Health was an outgrowth of CDC's heavy involvement in recent environmental health incidents such as chemical contamination in Triana, Alabama and Love Canal, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens; it also inherited existing programs in rat control, lead, dental disease, cancer ...
HPSC produces annual epidemiological reports covering all areas of infectious and communicable disease surveillance carried out in Ireland. It is the designated Competent Body for liaison with European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and is Ireland's national World Health Organization International Health Regulations (IHR) focal point for communicable diseases.
Chuang Shuk-kwan (Chinese: 張竹君; born 11 July 1967) is a Hong Kong doctor specialising in public health medicine, currently serving as the head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong.
Directorate of Health (Embætti landlæknis; Iceland) [26] Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH; Switzerland) Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL; Finland) [27] Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC; Ireland) Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII; Spain) Higher Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) (ISS; Italy)
The agency's main goal is the protection of public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and worldwide. [4] The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention.
The national public health institutes (NPHI) model, exemplified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), [7] Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública of Mexico (INSP Mexico), [8] Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil (FIOCRUZ Brazil) [9] and others, is an effective and cost ...
National Centre for Disease Control; National Centre for Infectious Diseases; National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment; National Institute of Health, Islamabad; National Institute of Public Health of Japan; Nigeria Centre for Disease Control