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Hong Kong's medical infrastructure consists of a mixed medical economy, with 12 private hospitals and more than 50 public hospitals. There are also polyclinics that offer primary care services, including dentistry.
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Medical schools
Hong Kong has two medical schools, one with the University of Hong Kong (the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine) and the other with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Medical graduates obtain the MBChB or MBBS, based upon the British model. There are also schools of nursing, both public and private, and training for professions allied to medicine, including a school dedicated to dentistry.
Hospital Authority
The Hospital Authority is a statutory body established on 1 December 1990 under the Hospital Authority Ordinance to manage all 38 public hospitals and institutions in Hong Kong. It is mainly responsible for delivering a comprehensive range of secondary and tertiary specialist care and medical rehabilitation through its network of health care facilities. The Authority also provides some primary medical services in 74 primary care clinics.1
Hospitals
Hong Kong's 12 private hospitals have partnered with the United Kingdom for international healthcare accreditation. All 12 private hospitals are "Trent Hospitals", having been surveyed and accredited by the United Kingdom's Trent Accreditation Scheme.2 The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine is an independent institution with the statutory power to organise, monitor, assess and accredit all medical specialist training and to oversee the provision of continuing medical education in Hong Kong.3 In addition, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has also accredited the postgraduate medical education (1994-present) in Hong Kong and allowed these graduates from the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine seeking RCPSC Certification and practising in Canada.4
Government
The Department of Health, under Food and Health Bureau (Secretary for Food and Health, York Chow), is the health adviser of Hong Kong government and an executive arm in health legislation and policy. Its main role is to safeguard the health of the community through promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services in Hong Kong.5 The main function of the department includes child assessment service, immunisation programmes, dental service, forensic pathology service, registration of healthcare professionals etc, though boards and councils (i.e. Medical Council of Hong Kong, Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong) are independent statutory bodies established under the relevant ordinances that operate independently to discharge their statutory functions.6
Indicators
Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world.7 Because of its early health education, professional health services, and well-developed health care and medication system, Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 84 for females and 78 for men,8 which are the second highest in the world, and 2.94 infant mortality rate, the fourth lowest in the world.910
Hong Kong has high standards of medical practice. It has contributed to the development of liver transplantation, being the first in the world to carry out adult to adult live donor liver transplant in 1993.11
Emergency medical services
See also
- List of hospitals in Hong Kong
- Immunisation Programme in Hong Kong
- Medical education in Hong Kong > Faculties of Medicines in Hong Kong
- Auxiliary Medical Service
- Health Info World
- Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics
- Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
- Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
- Personal Emergency Link
References
- ^ "About Hospital Authority". The Organisation of Hospital Authority. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "Accreditation Details of Hong Kong Hospitals". Trent Accreditation Scheme. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
- ^ "The homepage of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine". HKMA. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "Postgraduate Medical Education systems (PGME) for International Medical Graduate (IMG) applicants seeking RCPSC Certification". The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "Homepage of the Department of Health, the Government of Hong Kong SAR". Hong Kong government. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "list of main services of the Department of Health, the Government of Hong Kong SAR". Hong Kong government. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "Hong Kong health indices among world's best". Government of the Hong Kong SAR (2003-01-28). Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "Healthy life expectancy in Hong Kong". World Health Organization. Retrieved on 7 June 2008.
- ^ "Rank Order - Life expectancy at birth". The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency (2008-01-24). Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision" (PDF). United Nations (2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ Live Donor Liver Transplantation: Current Status
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