One country, two systems: Public health in China

SummaryThis paper, presented in Lisbon in May 2007, uses the framework of the three domains of public health practice—namely, health protection, health improvement and health services—as a reference to outline some of the main current public health challenges in Hong Kong and Mainland China [Griffiths S, Jewell T, Donnelly P. Public health in practice: the three domains of public health. Public Health 2005;119:907–13.1].