Talk:Hepatitis B in China

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[edit] PRC vs. China - any sources?

Are there any sources to say that the WHO recognises the disease as an endemic in "mainland China" or "China"?

That would put help put the dispute to rest. --- Hong Qi Gong 22:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

WHO recognizes China as all of the PRC and the territory controlled by the ROC, including HK and MO. WHO doesn't care about internal boundaries and doesn't recognize the ROC. Whether specific programs and such are applied in the SARS or TW aren't clear, but statistics and such are going to cover the entire "China". When it's useful for the WHO to break out a Chinese area by political region, it uses the following:

• China
• China (Beijing Municipality)
• China (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region)
• China (Macao Special Administrative Region)
• China (Province of Taiwan)
• China (Shanghai Municipality)
• China (Shenzen Municipality)

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by SchmuckyTheCat (talk • contribs) 23:18, July 29, 2006 (UTC).

Any evidence? Sources from the WHO website ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]) doesn't seem to suggest " [it] doesn't care about internal boundaries .. , but statistics and such are going to cover the entire "China". " The National Bureau of Statistics [7], which is linked from [8], says " 本年鉴所涉及的全国性统计数据，除行政区划、国土面积和森林资源外，均未包括香港、澳门特别行政区和台湾省数据。 " [9] (translation: National statistics in this yearbook do no include statistics of the Hong Kong and the Macao special administrative regions, and the Taiwan Province, except for administrative units, surface area and forest resources ). — Instantnood 07:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

In light of the links User:Instantnood provided, I have to agree with him that the WHO is only talking about the PRC.

However, I'd like to suggest that we either 1) move the article to Hepatitis B in the PRC or 2) include different sections in the article covering Taiwan, and HK & Macao. The hepatitis B issue is not exactly on the same level of seriousness in regards to these regions. I don't know about Taiwan, but I know that HK started giving Hep B vaccinations at birth starting in the mid 80s. I'm not sure when they started doing that in the PRC, but the problem as it stands even today is that many people in the rural areas do not get vaccinations at birth. There are problems that are specific to the PRC. --- Hong Qi Gong 15:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

The PRC also started vaccinating for HepB in the 80s, but it was not widespread, and not free.

Yes, there should be different sections for the regions, no objection to that. No need for a name change. SchmuckyTheCat 16:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

China for the purpose of this article refers to mainland China. The creator of this article categorised the article to category:mainland China [10] [11]. The WHO uses China to mean mainland China, or at least, the PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macao [12], [13] [14] [15]. This article should be renamed to reflect its content. — Instantnood 18:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I just took a look at this article, and it is not clear what region/area/place/country is included or excluded. I think it would be clearer to just rename Hepatitis_B_in_Mainland_China or Hepatitis_B_in_the_PRC Wenzi 02:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)