neonatal hepatitis B vaccination 3 Qing-Qing Yao, Xiao-Lian Dong, Xue-Cai Wang, Sheng-Xiang Ge, An-Qun Hu, 4 Hai-Yan Liu, Yueping Alex Wang, Quan Yuan, Ying-Jie Zheng 5 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, the Key Laboratory on Public 6 Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China 7 2 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Deqing County,...

Chan Yee Kwan, Pirkka Kirjavainen, PhD, Chen Yan, PhD and Hani El-Nezami, PhD* School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, Hong Kong, China; Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, Hong Kong, China; Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, Hong Kon...

doi: 10.3967/bes2014.127 This study was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2012M520774, No. 2013T60393) and Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Science Foundation (LBH-Z12156). 1. Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Public Health College, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, Heilongjiang, China; 2. The 1 affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, ...

This paper examines the determinants that influence health care demand decisions in rural areas of Gansu province, China. This represents the first effort to identify and quantify the effect of price of care on choice of provider in China, and is the first quantitative examination of this topic focusing on poor rural areas in China. In the three-tier health care system in rural China, we furthe...

introduction: psychological and social health is the main problems of workers population, which can increase productivity at work and physical and mental health and provide or decline in these aspects. materials and methods: this study was descriptive and crosses - sectional and has been performed on 388 iranian central iron ore company workers. the tool of study was standard ghq-28 question ar...

Newspapers are one of the most important sources of health information for the public in China, yet little is known about the coverage of health issues in Chinese newspapers. Using the theories of agenda setting and framing, we explored research questions such as what health-related topics were covered and how they were covered in Chinese newspapers. This study used a sample of two constructed ...

Public health concerns underlie a considerable portion of the global burden of disease, increasing the utility and need for promoting and assessing the knowledge about public health issues. Health literacy is generally agreed upon as a means to find, understand, analyze and use information to make better decisions about health and to ultimately reduce inequities in health. A public health liter...

BACKGROUND In China, there was a pressing need to establish a governmental agency to oversee the organizations that provide public health and medical services. The Chinese Health Inspection Authority (HIA), a relatively independent organization functioning at each administrative level (provincial, municipal, and county), was mandated to conduct 11 health inspection functions to maintain efficie...