BACKGROUND China is facing a significant tuberculosis epidemic among rural-to-urban migrants, which poses a threat to TB control. This study aimed to understand the health seeking behaviour of and health systems responses to migrants and permanent urban residents suffering from chronic cough, in order to identify the factors influencing delays for both groups in receiving a TB diagnosis in urba...

BACKGROUND The salutogenic model states that coping resources are defined within sociocultural and historical contexts and that various social and historical factors influence the availability of such resources. Though previous studies have suggested the need for an interregional comparison of psychological and social resources, few studies have undertaken such an investigation. The aim of this...

Research on happiness determinants began in the 1970s such fields as psychology and economics. While they tended to focus individual variables, have recently expanded built environment. Regarding environment, transportation systems—as opposed land use—were mostly studied relation transient of satisfaction from one trip rather than overall based life satisfaction. By controlling for well-researc...

living in satisfying urban environments is important for an individual’s well-being. in order to create such environments, planners, designers, and policy makers need to understand the structures that cause residents to feel satisfied with their environments. this paper focuses on the perceived quality of urban residential environments: dwellings and neighborhoods. first, literature review was ...

BACKGROUND Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of injury-related mortality on life expectancy in Zhejiang Province. METHODS Our study used standard life tables to calculate life expectancy and cause-removed life expectancy based on mortality data from the Zhejiang Chronic Disease Sur...

BACKGROUND Suicide intervention programs have been guided by findings that attitude towards suicide and suicidal behavior may be causally linked. These findings also make it imperative to identify the factors that influence attitudes towards suicide. However, there has been little research on attitudes towards suicide among the general population, especially in low-income and middle-income coun...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in north and south, and urban and rural residents of China. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey conducted in 2000-2001. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A multistage cluster sampling method was used to select a nationally representative sample of 15 540 men and women aged 35-74 years from the general Chinese populatio...

OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with the use of selected medical services near the end of life in cognitively impaired residents of rural and urban nursing homes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrative data for 1998 through 2002. SETTING Minnesota and Texas nursing homes. PARTICIPANTS Nursing home residents aged 65 and o...