Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center, Department of Health, Executive Yuan and National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Taiwan Anti-malaria Advisory Mission in the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Ministry of ...

This paper briefly introduces the main ideas of Machine Translation (MT) techniques,then discusses the application of MT in the ChinaAmerica Digital Academic Library (CADAL)

The order of author affiliations is listed incorrectly. Division of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China should appear first. The correct list of affiliations is below. Tao He, Jian Sa, Ping-Shou Zhong, Yuehua Cui, * 1 Division of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China 2 Department ...

the paper published in the january 2015 issue of this journal by gusmano and colleagues entitled “shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000” has spurred this commentary. we discuss controversial issues surrounding the concept of avoidable mortality in health service research in general and gusmano’s study in particular. the impact of overall social devel...

The global health issue is not a shortage of capital or technology, but a shortage of health manpower. Health human resource (HHR), an important component of health resources, determines the quantity, quality and effectiveness of health service, thus greatly impacting on health service to the citizens. In China, providing free basic public health services for urban and rural residents is a spec...

From the MOE Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children’s Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; and Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shan...

BACKGROUND Due to the rising standard of living environment and advances in public health and medical care in China, it has been a tendency in recent years that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been increasingly acknowledged in community health management. However, large-scale population-based study on evaluating HQRoL in northeast of China was not conducted. This article aims to inve...

BACKGROUND Each year, 540 million Chinese are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS), resulting in more than 100,000 deaths. Smoke-free policies have been demonstrated to decrease overall cigarette consumption, encourage smokers to quit, and protect the health of nonsmokers. However, restrictions on smoking in China remain limited and ineffective. Internal tobacco industry documents show that transn...