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  2. Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Wikipedia

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    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( PolyU or HKPU) is a public research university in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded in 1937 as the first Government Trade School, it is the first institution to provide technical education in Hong Kong.

  3. Medical education in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Medical education in Hong Kong. Modern medical education in Hong Kong started with the founding of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (Chinese: 香港華人西醫書院) in 1887. Currently, six institutes of higher education are engaged in the training of medical practitioners in Hong Kong.

  4. Polyclinic - Wikipedia

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    Look up polyclinic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A polyclinic (where poly means "many"; not to be confused with the homonym policlinic, where poli means "city" and which is sometimes used for a hospital's outpatient department) is a clinic or health care facility that provides both general and specialist examinations and treatments for a ...

  5. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Description. Queen Elizabeth Hospital was officially opened on 6 September 1963 by then-Governor of Hong Kong, Robert Black. At the time, it was the largest general hospital in the British Commonwealth, built at a cost of HK$70,300,000. [4] Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh laid the hospital's foundation stone on 7 March 1959.

  6. Community health centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The community health center ( CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...

  7. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .cpp .edu. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ( Cal Poly Pomona, CPP, or Cal Poly [Note 1] ), is a public polytechnic university in Pomona, California. It is the largest (by student body) of the three polytechnic universities in the California State University system. Cal Poly Pomona began as the southern campus of the ...

  8. Siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Wikipedia

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    The siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University [2] [3] occurred during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). [4] [5] The event was preceded by a similar conflict at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was precipitated by the setting-up of a roadblock at the Cross-Harbour Tunnel ...

  9. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...