This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of village doctors based on current national policies and to explore factors determining their roles in the directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS) strategy and tuberculosis (TB) control in rural China. In this cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, we interviewed a total of 1,824 village doctors from 36 vil...

one of the innovations of councils law is the assignment of an executive officer is responsible of implementing legislations of islamic council of the village. the performances of assistants we classified in three classes of social, economical and environmental- structural indices. the objective of the current research is to evaluate the indices effective on the performance levels of village as...

Context: China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens and to correct distortions in rural Chinese health care. However, little is known about the effects of its individual policy features or its impact on village clinics (the primary care backbone of rural China). Objective: The objective of this study is to determine whether...

^Sohjarang is a Khasi village in the jungle 12 miles west of the Shillong-Gauhati Road. It consists of 29 houses and 161 inhabitants. The main village has 24 houses clustered on the slopes of a hill and a smaller part consists of 5 houses on a neighbouring hill. This portion is referred to as U. Pher's village. The people of Nongsier are related to families in Sohjarang and, though ten miles se...

BACKGROUND Overuse of antibiotics contributes to the development of antimicrobial resistance. OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess the condition of antibiotic use at health facilities at county, township and village levels in rural Guangxi, China. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in 2014 for children aged 2-14 years with upper respiratory in...

BACKGROUND Smoking prevalence is high in China and even higher among rural residents. The aims of this study were: 1) to gain insights into the motivations of tobacco use and barriers to smoking cessation among rural village residents; 2) to understand the current tobacco control measures in the rural villages and barriers encountered or perceived for implementation. METHODS Qualitative semi-...

Iknow what you’re thinking—“it takes a village” is a hackneyed phrase, and what is it doing in P&T? Perhaps you missed a critically important report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) last winter on an approach for preventing and controlling hypertension.1 It certainly appears that it does take a village to manage high blood pressure in the U.S. As our readers probably know, nearly 73 million...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to examine the effect of household and community characteristics on financial catastrophe and impoverishment due to health payment in Western and Central Rural China. METHODS A household survey was conducted in 2008 in Hebei and Shaanxi provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region using a multi-stage sampling technique. Independent variables included village ch...

We have shown previously that anti-fecundity immunity can be induced experimentally against recombinant 26 kDa glutathione S-transferase (reSjc26GST) in Chinese water buffaloes (Bos buffelus), important reservoir hosts for Schistosoma japonicum in China. In the field study described here, we immunized buffaloes with reSjc26GST to induce protective immunity against S. japonicum and to evaluate i...