Background: In China, rapid urbanization has caused migration from rural to urban areas, and raised the prevalence of hypertension. However, public health insurance is not portable from one place to another, and migration may limit the effectiveness of this non-portable health insurance on healthcare. Our study aims to investigate whether migration limits the effectiveness of health insurance o...

BACKGROUND The last decade has seen enormous advances in HIV treatment and care, but how to implement scaled up HIV testing, prevention, and treatment in low-income areas still presents a formidable public health challenge. South China faces expanding syphilis and sexually transmitted HIV epidemics, but health systems characteristics important for scaling up syphilis and HIV testing have not be...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a strong independent risk factor for osteoporosis and pathologic fractures: a population-based cohort study S.-J. Chen, W.-C. Liao, K.-H. Huang, C.-L. Lin, W.-C. Tsai, P.-T. Kung, K.-H. Chang and C.-H. Kao Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Pharmacy, China Medical University Hospital, T...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to reveal the latest evidence on salt reduction initiatives in China in order to identify the contextual cost-effective interventions, as well as the barriers encountered during China's long march to reach its population salt reduction goal. BACKGROUND Population-based salt reduction has been considered as one of the most cost-effective strategies in the world for t...

BACKGROUND In the past 25 years, China has experienced remarkable economic growth and rapid agricultural-to-industrial and rural-to-urban transitions. As a consequence, China now faces many daunting environmental challenges that are significantly affecting human health and quality of life, including indoor and outdoor air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, loss of agricultural land, and...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan 2 Department of Healthcare Administration, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan 3 Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 4 Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 5 Department of Intern...

each community , due to differences in climatical , social economical and cultural peculiarities has a different sort of public health problems . in planning and executing public health programs , health workers should first be concerned with the problems of the locality and then with the program.