Guo Yuqi, Sims Omar T
a The University of Alabama, School of Social Work , Tuscaloosa , Alabama , USA.
b Department of Social Work , College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , Alabama , USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2017 Feb 17;32(2):77-81. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2016.1188745. Epub 2016 Jul 26.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) kills 366,000 people worldwide and 17,000 people in the United States each year. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a national viral hepatitis action plan to control and combat HCV in the United States. This article provides a brief update of HCV health policy developments that have emerged since publication of HHS's national viral hepatitis action plan and concludes with a discussion of the public health impact of these recent HCV health policy developments.
丙型肝炎病毒（HCV）在全球每年导致36.6万人死亡，在美国每年导致1.7万人死亡。2011年，美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）发布了一项全国病毒性肝炎行动计划，以在美国控制和抗击HCV。本文简要介绍了自HHS全国病毒性肝炎行动计划发布以来出现的HCV健康政策发展情况，并在结尾讨论了这些近期HCV健康政策发展对公共卫生的影响。
