User:SSchlhmr

Hi, I'm Sophie and I am currently a student at Rice University. I'm majoring in Philosophy and Asian Studies, and am hoping to learn more about other fields and the way they overlap with my own majors by exploring Wikipedia. I am especially interested in Chinese studies, bioethics and public health. I'm excited to be learning more about topics that interest me, contribute to articles, and better understand the behind-the-scenes world of Wikipedia! I'm currently in my second semester of Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities, and I'm looking forward to the process of editing another Wikipedia article.

Selected topic for Spring '20
I've chosen to work on the Health in China article for this semester. Pleas go to my sandbox to see the details of my proposal: User:SSchlhmr/sandbox

Proposed Topics for Spring '20
Health in China:

I’m interested in this topic because I’ve spent a lot of time studying China and spent the summer in China through a US State Dept. Chinese language program. Additionally, in high school, I spent a month working at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in rural China. I did a health-related topic on China last semester, and would love to learn more by going a bit more broad. I would be expanding on an already existing article, which is rated Class C. The article contains good information, sections, and a fair number of sources. However, it could certainly be expanded. Specifically, citations seem to be missing for much of the information presented. Additionally, Some sections, such as “Dependency Ratio”, “smoking”, and “Hepatitis B” need to be expanded. I think a section on health prior to 1949 would also be interesting, as well as a section on environmental effects on health. Other sections like “One Child Policy” need to be updated. Sections like “epidemiological studies” may need to be removed. Overall, I think revision of this article would mainly involve polishing, expanding, and trimming rather than a huge overhaul. I think doing so could turn it from perhaps a subpar article to an easily understandable and informative piece.

Talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Healthcare_reform_in_China

References

1. Campbell, Cameron. "Public Health Efforts in China before 1949 and Their Effects on Mortality: The Case of Beijing." Social Science History 21, no. 2 (1997): 179-218. Accessed January 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/1171273.

2. Hesketh, Therese, and Wei Xing Zhu. "Health in China: Traditional Chinese Medicine: One Country, Two Systems." BMJ: British Medical Journal 315, no. 7100 (1997): 115-17. Accessed January 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25175141.

3. Huang, Yanzhong. "The Sick Man of Asia: China's Health Crisis." Foreign Affairs 90, no. 6 (2011): 119-36. Accessed January 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/23039634.

4. Gong, Peng, Song Liang, Elizabeth J Carlton, Qingwu Jiang, Jianyong Wu, Lei Wang, and Justin V Remais. “Urbanisation and Health in China.” The Lancet 379, no. 9818 (2012): 843–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)61878-3.

5. Kan, Haidong. “Environment and Health in China: Challenges and Opportunities.” Environmental Health Perspectives 117, no. 12 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0901615.

6. Lampton, David M. "Public Health and Politics in China's past Two Decades." Health Services Reports 87, no. 10 (1972): 895-904. Accessed January 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/4594695.

7. Liu, Jihong, and Stella M. Yu. “Prioritizing Top Health Issues in China Beyond 2018: A Health Equity Perspective.” American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 12 (2018): 1599–1601. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304776.

8. Liu, Wenling, Ziping Xu, and Tianan Yang. “Health Effects of Air Pollution in China.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 7 (December 2018): 1471. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071471.

9. Sun, J., Hu, C.J., Stuntz, M. et al. A review of promoting access to medicines in China - problems and recommendations. BMC Health Serv Res 18, 125 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2875-6

10. Yang, Gonghuan, and Xia Wan. “Measuring Progress in Health in China and Its Provinces.” The Lancet 394, no. 10204 (2019): 1115–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31343-1.

11. Zhou, Maigeng. “Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” The Lancet 394, no. 10204 (June 24 2019)

Prisons in North Korea: This article focuses on the current kind of prisons in North Korea and what they are being used for. I would be expanding on a current article. I’m interested in this topic due to my major in Asian Studies, where I have already learned a bit about North Korea. In the US, we hear many rumors and shocking information about the treatment of prisoners in North Korea. I want to explore, from a more academic perspective, what the actual state of things is in North Korea. The article already has some helpful information, but very little comes from scholarly sources, from what I can tell. In addition, there is only information about two kinds of prisons. I propose the addition of further subsections. For example, treatment/punishment of prisoners while in prison, penal starvation, and further elaboration on the work the prisoners do as part of being imprisoned. Additionally, according to a comment on the talk page, 49% of the article was written by someone who was banned for plagiarizing, so I’d like to look into this and fix it up.

Talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prisons_in_North_Korea (note: this is a topic I was also considering last semester, so my comment is a bit old, but still relevant)

References

Cohen, Roberta. “Human Rights in North Korea: Addressing the Challenges”. International Journal of Korean Unification Studies 22, no. 2 (2013): 29–62 https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/RCohen_north_korea_Dec2013.pdf

Goedde, Patricia. “Legal Mobilization for Human Rights Protection in North Korea: Furthering Discourse or Discord?” Human Rights Quarterly 32, no. 3 (2010): 530-574 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40784055.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%252Ftest&refreqid=excelsior%3A13b73af29e0b7525f04a605ee1d74cbf

Haggard, Stephen and Marcus Noland. “Repression and Punishment in North Korea: Survey Evidence of Prison Camp Experiences” East-West Center Working Papers, no. 20 (2009) https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/13411/pswp020.pdf

Hilpert, Hans Günther and Frédéric Krumbein. “Human Rights in North Korea: A European Perspective.” The Journal of East Asian Affairs 30, no. 1 (2016) 67-92 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43829410.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%252Ftest&refreqid=excelsior%3A0e4cc89baa3a5fd0693b7919a9a561fb

Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E. “State-Induced Famine and Penal Starvation in North Korea” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 7, no. 2 (2012): 147-165

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1035&context=gsp

Liang-Fenton, Debra. “Failing to Protect: Food Shortages and Prison Camps in North Korea.” Asian Perspective 31, no. 2 (2007): 47-74

http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=a554ce77-34fe-4df9-a9b1-5affc4aedf68%40pdc-v-sessmgr05&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=26357082&db=sih

Ulferts, Gregory and Terry L. Howard. “North Korean Human Rights Abuses and Their Consequences.” North Korean Review 13, no. 2, (Fall 2017): 84-92 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26396124?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Fahy, Sandra. “Rights Based TB Programs for Migrants and Prisoners Needed in North Korea” Health and Human Rights 18, no. 1 (2016): 109-114 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/healhumarigh.18.1.109.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%252Ftest&refreqid=excelsior%3A594bbe03bed4e38d5cc52fdd951c8d32

Park, Robert. “THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE: North Korea’s Prison State.” World Affairs 176, no. 2 (2013): 64–71. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.rice.edu/stable/43554782?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Tudor, Daniel, and Pearson, James. North Korea Confidential : Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors / Daniel Tudor & James Pearson. Tokyo; Tuttle Publishing, 2015.

Evaluation
The barefoot doctors were minimally trained doctors who served China’s rural populations up until the cultural revolution. A wiki article already exists, and I would be expanding on it. Because I’m very interested in Asian Studies (especially China) and also interested in medicine and public health, the barefoot doctors seem like a fascinating fusion of the two. While the article is fine and has quite a few scholarly sources,  I think much of the information contained within needs to be further explained. Furthermore, certain sections, such as “International development with NGOs” need to be removed as they make no sense in the context of this article.

Proposal
Please go to User:SSchlhmr/sandbox to see some key points of my proposal along with an annotated bibliography!