Public health publisher
The Public Health Publishing ( Chinese 人民卫生出版社 , Pinyin Renmin weisheng chubanshe , English People's Medical Publishing House; abbr. PMPH ) is the largest medical specialist publisher of the People's Republic of China . It was founded in 1953 under the Chinese Ministry of Health. Even after privatization in 2000, it still enjoys general approval from the Chinese government.
PMPH is a WHO collaborating center for the dissemination and translation of World Health Organization (WHO) publications . In particular, he publishes the Chinese version of the ICD-10 for the WHO .
In 2007 PMPH published over 2,000 titles and had sales of approximately $ 100 million. The publisher is trying to expand in the English language book market. In 2007, he formed a strategic alliance with the publishing division of the American Psychiatric Association . In 2008, he set up a subsidiary in the United States and acquired the rights to medical texts from Canadian publisher BC Decker. He was represented at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 and also appeared at the London Book Fair 2010.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ APPI Explores Joint Projects With Chinese Publisher , in: Psychiatric News 42, October 19, 2007, p. 20
- ↑ Information from the World Health Organization ( Memento from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information from the World Health Organization (PDF file; 82 kB)
- ^ People's Medical Publishing House Takes Off . cptoday.cn, May 6, 2009 ( Memento of October 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information from the London Book Fair on PMPH ( Memento from January 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )