BACKGROUND The diabetes epidemic in China imposes an increasing burden on the health care system and the economy. We derived prospective diabetes prevalence rates in China until 2016 from a systematic review of the published literature in the period 1987-2007. The results could help to guide resources of the Chinese health care system in order to address the diabetes epidemic. METHODS We sele...

BACKGROUND Female smoking prevalence in China is very low but may rise with increased tobacco marketing towards women and changing norms. However, little is known about current perceptions of women smoking in China. OBJECTIVE This study sought to examine smokers' and non-smokers' perceived acceptability of female smoking and how it changed over time in China. METHODS Data come from Waves 1 ...

t his paper investigates the gain of bilateral trade between china and u.s. in manufacturing sectors when both countries play a role in asymmetric (biased) growth of  international trade. our model includes a special case of biased growth theory in international trade. we collected labor productivity, export and import data by using classification of manufacturing industries, for u.s. and china...

The lack of health human resources is a global issue. China also faces the same issue, in addition to the equity of human resources allocation. With the launch of new healthcare reform of China in 2009, have the issues been improved? Relevant data from China Health Statistical Yearbook and a qualitative study show that the unequal allocation of health human resources is getting worse than before.

China has seen a massive higher education expansion, which the literature dated to 1999–2008 period with quantitative and qualitative outcomes. However, consequences for publication success of Chinese authors worldwide are not well studied. We review respective policies document dramatic rise in success, focus on field Economics. A substantial set regressions robustness checks confirm understan...

This study provides the first set of estimates on schooling returns over a long time span in urban China. There has been a dramatic and consistent increase in returns to education in urban China. In 1988, the rate of return to education was only 4.7%. By 1999, it has risen to 11.5%. Most of the rise in returns to education occurred after 1992 and reflected in the wage premium for college (or ab...