BACKGROUND Although many studies have suggested social participation (SP) has beneficial effects on elderly people's health, most of them failed to deal with paid work. Additionally, few studies have focused on the age effect between SP and older people's health. To investigate whether the association between SP, including paid work, and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), exhibits ...

BACKGROUND Gender difference and life-course socioeconomic inequalities in functional disability may exist among older adults. However, the association is less well understood among Chinese older population. The objective is to provide empirical evidences on this issue by exploring the association between gender, childhood and adult socioeconomic inequalities in functional disability. METHODS...

Abstract Fine-scale characteristics of summer precipitation over Cang Mountain, a long and narrow mountain with quasi-north-south orientation in Southwest China, are studied based on station radar data. Three kinds rainfall processes classified according to the initial stations regional events (RREs) by utilizing minute-scale rain gauge RREs initiating western part Mountain exhibit eastward evo...