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Urbanisation and health in China

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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.
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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.

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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)

富雄 廣畑
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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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

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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The second expert report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective

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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A theory of migration

Everett S. Lee
- 01 Mar 1966 - 
TL;DR: The concept of migracion abarca una serie de fadores sobre lugar de origen and de destino, obstaculos intervinientes and caracteristicas personales as discussed by the authors.
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World population prospects

Parant A
- 01 Mar 1990 - 
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)

富雄 廣畑
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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