Rural Villagers and Urban Residents Exposure to Poultry in China

Rural Villagers and Urban Residents Exposure to Poultry in China

Patterns of poultry exposure in rural and urban areas in China have not been systematically evaluated and compared. The objective of our study is to investigate patterns in human exposure to poultry in rural and urban China. We conducted a two-stage household-based clustered survey on population exposure to live/sick/dead poultry in Xiuning and Shenzhen. Half of the rural households (51%) in Xi...

Income Inequality in Urban China: A Comparative Analysis between Urban Residents and Rural-Urban Migrants

Villagers Participation in Rural Public Policy Making in China

Exploring in public policy making of villagers participation is the key point in the scientification and democratization of the policy. This paper takes the deliberative governance model in Zhejiang Province as example to study why and how villagers can participate in rural public policy making and how villagers' wills are taken into account in rural governance in China nowadays. And an effecti...

Comparison of behaviors regarding live poultry exposure among rural residents in Vietnam and Thailand.

INTRODUCTION Live poultry exposure and risk behaviors are more prevalent in rural communities, increasing the risk of influenza A/H5N1 infection. We examined the economic and socio-cultural influences on poultry-related practices by comparing the poultry-related practices among Vietnamese and Thai rural residents by family income and consumption preference. METHODS Stratified cluster sampling...

Socioeconomic status and alcohol use among urban and rural residents in China.

The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and current regular alcohol use was examined separately for urban and rural residents of Hubei, China, using the third Chinese National Health Service Survey conducted in 2003. A probability sample of 15,609 respondents, ages 15 through 101 years, was selected from the study base. Alcohol use was a dichotomized variable (current regular users v...