摘要 : Two U.S. specialists (on the governance and foreign policy aspects of China'spublic health issues as well as its human and medical geography) examine how two dif-ferent sets of policies implemented by the government of China have ... 展开 Two U.S. specialists (on the governance and foreign policy aspects of China'spublic health issues as well as its human and medical geography) examine how two dif-ferent sets of policies implemented by the government of China have affected both thegeography and political ecology of pandemic disease outbreaks (HIV/AIDS, SARS, andHIN1) over the past two decades. More specifically, they argue that: (I) broad develop-ment and reform policies largely responsible for China's rapid modernization/urbaniza-tion and increasingly successful perfomance in the global economic arena have generatedunexpected side-effects in terms of the location, incidence, and spread of pandemics aswell as the state's capacity to mount an adequate health care response; and (2) politicallymotivated public health policies implemented in response to the spread of specific pan-demics in China have had unanticipated impacts on the progression of disease outbreaksand their outcomes. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H510, H750,1180.3 figures, 2 tables, 76 references. Key words: China, pandemics, public health, HIV/AIDS, SARS, H IN I, herd community effect, urban consumption, quarantine, vaccination,political intervention. 收起