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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 Health Bureau (Chinese: 醫務衞生局) is a policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong. They are responsible for the health portfolios. They are responsible for the health portfolios. The agency was established on 1 July 2022.
A new organisation, initially to be called the Centre for Health Protection, was proposed by Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in July 2020 to combine NHS Test and Trace, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and the health protection functions of Public Health England (PHE). [5]
In April 1989, the Medical and Health Department was split into the Department of Health and the Hospital Services Department. [2] The Hospital Authority was set up in 1990. In March 2021, the Department of Health terminated a vaccination agreement with a private clinic, after its doctor claimed that the Sinovac vaccine had a bad reputation and ...
Chuang Shuk-kwan JP DCH FFPH [2] (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 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 ...
Centre for Food Safety is the food safety authority under the Food and Health Department. Established in 2006, it replaced the role formerly under Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (created 1999) and Urban Services Department (pre 1999).