北京市卫生局 (Beijing Municipal Health Bureau)
  1. 1. What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
The government agency is called Beijing Municipal Health Bureau. The BMHB is a city government department responsible for the health work of the city
  1. 2. What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
Throughout the year the municipal government has invested 1.189 billion yuan (including 20 million yuan from national budget) in public health projects, wherein 627 million yuan goes to infrastructure projects of units affiliated to or governed by the municipal government, 426 million yuan to those of 541 community health service centers or stations under districts or counties, and 136 million yuan to other 12 public health projects of districts or counties.
  1. 3. What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
The BMHB formulates and implements the medical science, technology and education development, also the organization of the breakthrough of key medical and health R&D work. The BMHB works on the development plan on the city’s medical talents and the ethical standards for health officers, and the implementation of qualification standards for the national medical technical personnel and the introduction of medical talents.
  1. 4. Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
The BMHB is being responsible for the drafting of local health laws and regulations, formulation and implementation of the overall planning and development objectives of the city’s health reform and development, technical standards, health standards, and supervision of their implementation.
  1. 5. What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
The BMHB has established municipal Public Health System control and command department (center) for public health emergencies. It is for the first time that BMHB has incorporated public health emergencies into the macro-management of the municipal government. As the coordinating mechanism is continuously improved between governmental departments and regions, the municipal control and command department (center) for public health emergencies has further intensified the cooperation with the municipal animal disease control department, the municipal traffic injury control department, the municipal anti-terrorist control department, the municipal fire control department, the border health quarantine department and the civil aviation administration, and established a linking mechanism with Hong Kong and Macao for information exchange and joint prevention of emergencies. There is an obvious growth of ability to jointly prevent and control emergencies.
  1. 6. What research has the organization produce or draw on on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
In 2006, there are 12 large infrastructure projects of units affiliated to or governed by Beijing Bureau of Public Health. Among these projects, there are 4 projects under construction, including 3 resuming projects (relocation of Beijing Ditan Hospital, reconstruction and expansion of Beijing Youan Hospital in the first phase, and reconstruction and expansion of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital in the first phase) and 1 newly started project (additional floors built on the operation building of Beijing Children’s Hospital First-aid Center); the total floor area is 199.4 thousand square meters and the actualized investment makes up 381.44 million yuan, including the government investment 315 million yuan. There are 8 infrastructure projects which proposals are approved and pro-construction preparations are under way, including construction of Beijing Children’s Blood & Tumor Center, construction of Huilongguan section of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, construction of clinic & emergency treatment ward building and subsidiary buildings of Beijing Anding Hospital, project of cadre health-care building of Beijing Youyi Hospital, reconstruction and expansion of Xuanwu Hospital in the first phase, reconstruction of Being First-aid Center, the new clinic building of Beijing Anzhen Hospital, and expansion of the clinic building of Beijing Chest Hospital. The pre-construction preparations have cost 315.74 million yuan (inclusive of 220 million yuan used as the requisitioned land compensation), including 312 million yuan arranged by the government.
  1. 7. What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
The BMHB has finished transforming the public health supervision institutions from public service units to executive and law-enforcing units, and the public health supervision personnel are all turned into civil servants or executives. The number of personnel in all health supervision institutions increases to 2011, 574 more as against the previous year. The electronic information technology is used to facilitate joint enforcement of laws, and BMHB also kept refining the information system of integrated management on health supervision and law enforcement.
  1. 8. What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
The statistic platform for the health information has been further improved, so as to bring into existence 3 databases of human resources in health institutions across the city, equipment of some health institutions, and discharged patients from the medical institutions rated as 2-grade or better. Some special system projects are approved, initiated and moved into construction in succession in the first half of the year, including the information system of integrated management on Beijing community medical service, the management system of new rural cooperative medical service, the management system of blood information, the information system of integrated management on health supervision and law-enforcement. Beijing is the first city in the country that puts into use the service telephone of public health, that is, 12320, on November 30.
The asthma research can bases on health information has been profiled into the database. The online doctors also offer help for the asthma patients.
  1. 9. What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
Basic Information In 2006 there exist 4,861 medical service institutions at all levels in Beijing, 43 more than that in 2005. Among these institutions there are 541 hospitals, 22 more than that in the previous year; and there are 81,137 sickbeds, 2,060 increased as against the previous year, including 81202 in the hospitals, which includes 8,873 increased as compared with the previous year. The public health personnel numbers 164,331, an increase of 7362 over the previous year. Within the personnel there are 125,115 health care technology professionals, 5,172 increased as compared with the previous year. The percentage of such professionals in the total personnel is 76.14%; number of rural doctors are 3672, a decrease of 120 as compared with the previous year. The medical practitioners total 51,467, and the registered nurses 45,355. On average, every thousand citizens in the city have 6.83 hospital beds, 4.33 medical practitioners and 3.81 nurses. In 2006, every outpatient is charged 243.28 yuan on average for each clinical treatment and every patient spends 12,527.96 yuan on average for medical treatment at the government-run medical institutions.
In 2006, the budgetary expense on health care of Beijing reaches 2,325,064,300 yuan, 41.9% up than the previous year (when the expense was 1,638,511,700 yuan). And the fixed assets to the health care sector amount to 9,837,277,000 yuan.
The BMHB has established a mechanism of first-aid materials reserve for public health emergencies, and further improved the public health emergency warning mechanism, which, with the implementation of zero-case report, daily report, monthly report and yearly report systems, has noticeably enhanced the timeliness and sensitivity of reports on major emergencies that happened in critical places at critical moment.
  1. 10. What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The tasks of BMHB are designated by Beijing Municipal Government, and managing Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine according to Reform Program on Beijing Party and Government Institutions.
  1. 11. What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
The BMHB works with WHO (World Health Organization) to understand more about how to implement the principle of giving equal importance to CTM (Chinese Traditional Medicine) and western medicine”, also promoting the inheritance and innovation of Chinese medicine and cooperation between organizations.
  1. 12. What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
The BMHB has formulated Beijing Health Sector’s Surveillance Scheme on Governing Briberies in purchase and selling medicines, and established a level-to-level surveillance mechanism. Any difficulties or problems that crop up in the work are duly solved. The BMHB has established and perfected the case-handling work system featuring hierarchical responsibility, and other relevant mechanisms such as information exchange, clues handover, and case investigation with prosecutorial institution or public security. Through the information exchange, the BMHB has strengthened the investigation into and handling of cases.
  1. 13. What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
The BMHB has finished transforming the public health supervision institutions from public service units to executive and law-enforcing units, and the public health supervision personnel are all turned into civil servants or executives. The number of personnel in all health supervision institutions increases to 2011, 574 more as against the previous year. The electronic information technology is used to facilitate joint enforcement of laws, and we have established and kept refining the information system of integrated management on health supervision and law enforcement.

  1. 14. How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma Files can help the BMHB complete the section of Beijing’s health static in the database. Also it can help BMHB build their disease control and prevention system.



市园林绿化(Beijing Gardening and Greening Bureau)
  1. 1. What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
The government agency is Beijing Gardening and Greening Bureau.Beijing Gardening and Greening Bureau is an agency of Beijing Municipal Government, taking the responsibility of ecological and environmental protection work such as strategic research, urban-and-rural greening project planning and implementation.
  1. 2. What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
The Bureau is composed of 20 divisions and 36 affiliated institutions. All Beijing’s 18 districts and counties have respectively set up specialized agencies responsible for gardening activities and most of their communes or townships have established grass-root forestry institutions. These agencies and institutions have made a great contribution to greening and beautifying Beijing’s territory.
  1. 3. What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
Following the spirit and guidelines on ecology development and environment construction put forward by the CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee and the State Council, Beijing Municipal government has made tremendous efforts in greening and beautifying Beijing, resulting in remarkable achievements in setting up high-standard forestry ecosystem, relatively developed forest industry and high-level forest resources safeguarding system.
  1. 4. Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
The BGGB drawn up municipal standards and norms on forestry management and gardening activities and worked out classified protection criteria for ancient and rare trees. Moreover, they developed forest logging quota and formulated construction criteria and management norms for parks, scenic spots and nature reserves which refer to forest, wildlife or wetland reserves.
  1. 5. What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
The BGGB is responsible for the management of gardening activities and forest resources. While in charge of forest resources inventory, evaluation, dynamic monitoring, statistical analysis, they also take charge of registration management of forest ownership. In addition, the BGGB is supervising the use of specialized fund allocated for municipal-level forestry projects.
  1. 6. What research has the organization produce or drawn on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
The BGGB is taking biological measures in soil and water erosion control, and also responsible for the supervision and management of key afforestation or forest management projects.
  1. 7. What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
The BGGB works on the mid and long term program, annual plans, technical know-how and criteria of the municipal ecological forest, also supervises their implementation. They organize in establishing the 3-belt ecological defense around Beijing and carry out various work on providing technical guidance, professional training and supervision on the establishment, management and protection of ecological forest.
  1. 8. What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
If more ecological defense around Beijing has been established, the sand storms will be decreased, and the air quality can be improved. This is a better environment for people who has inspiratory system diseases to live in.
  1. 9. What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
In 2006, the budgetary expense on health care of Beijing reaches 2,325,064,300 yuan, 41.9% up than the previous year (when the expense was 1,638,511,700 yuan). And the fixed assets to the health care sector amount to 9,837,277,000 yuan. Such huge expense on health care motivated people to concern the environment problems.
10.What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The BGGB cooperates with the Division of Science and Technology, the Division of Wildlife Conservation and the Division of Greenery Land Management, etc. to implement laws, regulations and policies on gardening and forestry development.
11.What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
The BGGB is an agency of Beijing Municipal Government, taking the responsibility of ecological and environmental protection work such as strategic research, urban-and-rural greening project planning and implementation. These agencies and institutions have made a great contribution to greening and beautifying Beijing’s territory. As the capital of China, Beijing is not only an ancient city but also full of green. Beijingers love green and enjoy life. With its rapid development which has brought about new changes everyday, Beijing is now full of vitality.
12.What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
The achievements of BGGB have provided Beijing city an ecological defense which includes 3 greenery belts, i.e. the inner belt of buffer zone, the in-between belt of plains and the outer belt of mountains. Such efforts have laid a good foundation for building Beijing a harmonious society between human beings and nature as well as a social and economic sustainable development city with green mountainspurified rivers, fresh air, beautiful environment and sound ecology.
13.What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
For example, the Division of Urban Greening, the Division of Afforestation and Forest Management and the Division of Forestry Policy and Forrest Resources Management.
14.How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma Files include different air quality situation in various countries. The BGGB can incorporate with the country which has efficient ways of solving environmental issues. This cooperation not only good for people in Beijing, but can benefit people national wide.