The fact that educational systems for health care personnel
are distinctively separate for each role category and
that the location of nursing is limited predominantly to hospital
settings, seem to have relevance to the structure of
nursing curricula, beside the fact that nursing education is
controlled by medicine. The curriculum structure of the 10 Baccalaureate programs in China, shown in table 2, seems
to exemplify this relationship. Even though there were subjects
such as public health and health statistics in basic sciences
courses, there were no public health/community nursing
subjects or related subjects in nursing major courses to
foster the capacity for community field work. This may signify
the fact that the area of public health comes under the
prerogative of separate personnel categories