Urbanisation and health in China
Peng Gong,Song Liang,Elizabeth J. Carlton,Qingwu Jiang,Jianyong Wu,Lei Wang,Justin V. Remais +6 more
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To address the health challenges and maximise the benefits that accompany this rapid urbanisation, innovative health policies focused on the needs of migrants and research that could close knowledge gaps on urban population exposures are needed.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2012-03-03 and is currently open access. It has received 930 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public health & Urbanization.read more
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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, and compared efforts to green US and Chinese cities and found that the distribution of such space often disproportionately benefits predominantly white and more affluent communities.
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer : a Global Perspective : 食物、栄養、身体活動とがんの予防 : 世界的展望(後篇)
TL;DR: International experts in cancer prevention analyse global research on diet nutrition physical activity cancer and make public health policy recommendations, the fractions of cancer attributable to potentially modifiable factors are analyzed.
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Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
Maigeng Zhou,Haidong Wang,Xinying Zeng,Peng Yin,Jun Zhu,Wanqing Chen,Xiaohong Li,Lijun Wang,Limin Wang,Yunning Liu,Jiangmei Liu,Mei Zhang,Jinlei Qi,Shicheng Yu,Ashkan Afshin,Emmanuela Gakidou,Scott D Glenn,Varsha Sarah Krish,Molly K. Miller-Petrie,W Cliff Mountjoy-Venning,Erin C Mullany,Sofia Boston Redford,Hongyan Liu,Mohsen Naghavi,Simon I. Hay,Linhong Wang,Christopher J L Murray,Xiaofeng Liang +27 more
TL;DR: Stroke and ischaemic heart disease were the leading causes of death and DALYs at the national level in China in 2017, and China has made substantial progress in reducing the burden of many diseases and disabilities.
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The footprint of urban heat island effect in China
TL;DR: Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, it is shown that the UHI effect decayed exponentially toward rural areas for majority of the 32 Chinese cities, and an obvious urban/rural temperature “cliff” is found.
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The primary health-care system in China
Xi Li,Jiapeng Lu,Shuang Hu,Kar Keung Cheng,Kar Keung Cheng,Jan De Maeseneer,Qingyue Meng,Elias Mossialos,Dong Xu,Winnie Yip,Hongzhao Zhang,Harlan M. Krumholz,Lixin Jiang,Shengshou Hu +13 more
TL;DR: As China deepens its health-care reform, it has the opportunity to build an integrated, cooperative primary health- care system, generating knowledge from practice that can support improvements, and bolstered by evidence-based performance indicators and incentives.
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Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective
Michael Marmot,T. Atinmo,Tim Byers,J Chen,T Hirohata,Alan Jackson,W. P. T. James,L Kolonel,Shiriki K. Kumanyika,C Leitzmann,Jim Mann,H Powers,K.S. Reddy,Elio Riboli,JA Rivera,Arthur Schatzkin,Jacob C. Seidell,D Shuker,Ricardo Uauy,Walter C. Willett,Steven H. Zeisel +20 more
TL;DR: The extent to which food, nutrition, physical activity, and body composition modify the risk of cancer, and to specify which factors are most important, is explored.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the extent to which food, nutrition, physical activity, and body composition modify the risk of cancer, and specify which factors are most important for cancer prevention.
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World population prospects
TL;DR: The author summarizes recent U.N. global population projections up to the year 2025, focusing on the rates of overall growth, the changing balance of population between the developed and developing worlds, demographic aging, and urbanization.
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer : a Global Perspective : 食物、栄養、身体活動とがんの予防 : 世界的展望(後篇)
TL;DR: International experts in cancer prevention analyse global research on diet nutrition physical activity cancer and make public health policy recommendations, the fractions of cancer attributable to potentially modifiable factors are analyzed.