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cord-008926-ntv18e1s	Han, Qide	China and global health	2008-10-17		.txt	text/plain	1902	108	54	China is a substantial part of virtually all global health challenges: the prevalence of chronic cardiovascular diseases and cancers; re-emergence of infectious threats such as avian infl uenza; nutritional transitions due to changing food, diet, and physical activity; and new environmental and behavioural threats. Finally, China's customary reserved role in international institutions is changing as the country assumes more global responsibilities, especially in peace and social sectors such as health. 1 The Chinese Government recognises these challenges and has announced the Healthy China 2020 initiative to reform disease prevention and health promotion, health-care services, pharmaceutical policies, and health insurance. 5, 6 China has a unique opportunity to mobilise its resources and to harness global knowledge to achieve advances in health, compressing the time and reducing the scale of the disease burden that many other developed countries have had. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] How China fares is important not only for Chinese people but also for the global health community.	./cache/cord-008926-ntv18e1s.txt	./txt/cord-008926-ntv18e1s.txt