Health Of Chinese People Research Articles

Mortality and disease burden of oral cancer in China: a time-trend analysis on the China Death Surveillance Database from 2006 to 2021

BackgroundOral cancer is one of the most common cancers in China and seriously threaten life and health of Chinese people. We analysed the trends and disparities of oral cancer mortality rates and the disease burden of oral cancer in China from 2006 to 2021 to provide a reference for its prevention and control.MethodsAnnual death data for oral cancer was gleaned from the China Death Surveillance Database. The age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), annual percentage change (APC), and average APC (AAPC) were used to analyze the trend of mortality. Loss of life expectancy (LLE) and years of life lost (YLL) were adopted to assess disease burden.ResultsFrom 2006 to 2021, the overall ASMR of oral cancer lightly declined (AAPC: − 0.97%; 95% CI: − 1.89%, − 0.04%), and the similar trend was observed among females (AAPC: − 1.22%; 95% CI: − 1.89%, − 0.55%). The ASMR of males was 2.31–3.16 times higher than that of females per year. The median of LLE for overall, males and females caused by oral cancer from 2006 to 2021 were 0.05, 0.06 and 0.03 years, respectively. There was a decrease of standardized YLL rate from 2006 to 2021 for overall (AAPC: − 1.31%, 95% CI: − 2.24% ~ − 0.37%) and for female (AAPC: − 1.63%, 95% CI: − 2.30% ~ − 0.95%). ASMR in urban areas was 1.02–1.28 times higher than that in rural areas from 2006 to2011, but 0.85–0.97 times lower in urban areas than that in rural areas from 2018 to 2021. The disease burden was higher in urban areas than in rural areas in 2006, whereas the reverse was observed in 2021.ConclusionsThere are severe health gaps and disparities in trends between sexes and different areas in China. Males and rural populations need to be focused on targeted interventions for the main influencing factors.

A Study on Payment Willingness and Influencing Factors of Elderly People under the Home Community Elderly Care Model

The aging situation in our country is severe, and the aging process is accelerating. It is expected that by 2040, the proportion of elderly people aged 65 and above will reach 20% of the total population in the country. The number of elderly people is growing at a rate of 5% every year, and the proportion of elderly care will reach about 28%. The pressure of elderly care is heavy. And with the change of Chinese people's health concepts, the social family model is increasingly inclined towards miniaturization, and the living standards are constantly improving, which has put forward more diverse demands for the functions and operation of the new elderly care service model. This article takes elderly people aged 60 and above as the research object, adopts field research method, starts from the willingness of elderly people to pay for home-based community elderly care services, further understands the current situation of home-based community elderly care service models, and finally analyzes the questionnaire results and interview content, discusses the factors affecting the overall willingness to pay of elderly people, hoping to provide scientific basis for the pricing of current home-based community elderly care service projects.

The interpretation of human body in traditional Chinese medicine and its influence on the characteristics of TCM theory.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a long history of serving the Chinese people's health since its birth, including playing an important role in treating and preventing COVID-19 in 2020. The fact that TCM has been used in China for thousands of years shows the value and reason why it must exist. Although TCM has been or is being questioned, there is no doubt about its importance in terms of efficacy. This article focuses on how TCM understands the human body in comparison with anatomy knowledge in western medicine and discusses the development and advances of TCM in terms of the body view and the theory innovation. The purpose is to let foreign scholars get better understanding of TCM from this perspective.

The Impact of Information on Mental Health of Chinese People in the COVID-19

As a sudden public event, COVID-19 had caused a great impact on the physical and mental health of people. During this period, people paid great attention to the information of COVID-19. This study investigated the emotional and mental health conditions of 511 residents in the early stage of COVID-19. The results showed that most people were nervous and panic in this period. Individuals who were exposed to more positive information had a lower degree of negative emotional experience; people got more positive and mixed information had significantly better mental health and sleep conditions than people received more negative emotions.

Neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced gastric cancer

Gastric cancer is the second most common and the second leading cause of cancer related mortality in China, which seriously endanger the lives and health of Chinese people. Due to the lack of typical symptoms and screening system of early gastric cancer, about 70% patients with gastric cancer are diagnosed as locally advanced disease in China. Radical resection is the main approach for locally advanced gastric cancer (LAGC), however, the clinical effect of gastrectomy alone or gastrectomy plus adjuvant treatment is limited. As a result, there has been increasing interest in the neoadjuvant treatment, which could potentially downstage tumor, eliminate tumor micrometastasis, reduce intraoperative dissemination and postoperative recurrence, thus improve the prognosis of patients with LAGC. The exploration and application of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy of neoadjuvant treatment in LAGC have made continuous progress in recent years. To date, neoadjuvant therapy has been developed as a part of multimodality treatment for patients with LAGC.

Challenges and countermeasures on Chinese malaria elimination programme during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak

Since the end of 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been extensively epidemic in China, which not only seriously threatens the safety and health of Chinese people, but also challenges the management of other infectious diseases. Currently, there are still approximately three thousand malaria cases imported into China every year. If the diagnosis and treatment of malaria cases as well as the investigation and response of the epidemic foci are not carried out timely, it may endanger patients'lives and cause the possible of secondary transmission, which threatens the achievements of malaria elimination in China. Due to the extensive spread and high transmission ability of the COVID-19, there is a possibility of virus infections among malaria cases during the medical care-seeking behaviors and among healthcare professionals during clinical diagnosis and treatment, sample collection and testing and epidemiological surveys. This paper analyzes the challenges of the COVID-19 for Chinese malaria elimination programme, and proposes the countermeasures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, so as to provide the reference for healthcare professionals.

Epidemic Trend and Transmission Risk of SARS-CoV-2 after Government Intervention in the Mainland of China: A Mathematical Model Study

Background: The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 had seriously endangered the lives and health of Chinese people and brought heavy economic burden to China We predicted

Dramatic achievements in infectious disease prevention and treatment in China during the past 70 years

At the beginning of the founding of People's Republic of China, infectious diseases, such as smallpox, plague, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, measles, diphtheria, pertussis, meningitis, mumps, schistosomiasis, Kala Azar, hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, encephalitis B, typhus, malaria, Kala Azar, leprosy, scarlet fever and pinkeye, remained as epidemic in the country and endangered people's health. During the past 70 years, the Chinese government spent huge efforts in infectious disease prevention and treatment by promulgating and implementing series of relative policies, laws and strategies, and also encouraged all Chinese people to participate in. The achievements of these efforts in controlling infectious disease epidemic were extremely successful. Today, the outbreaks and epidemic of infectious diseases in China were rarely happened with the rapid decreases in incidence and mortality rates of all notifiable infectious diseases. Smallpox was eradicated, and polio, filariasis, leprosy and neonatal tetanus were nearly eradicated. In addition, the incidence rates of vaccine-preventable diseases, i.e. measles, diphtheria, pertussis, meningitis, encephalitis B, hepatitis A, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis, were dramatically decreased and remained at relatively low levels for years. The incidence and prevalence rates of hepatitis B infection in Children decreased significantly and reached the phase objectives. Moreover, incidence rates of natural iatrogenic infectious diseases, i.e. diarrhea, typhoid and other intestinal infectious diseases, leptospirosis and schistosomiasis, and vectorborne diseases, i.e. typhus, malaria, Kala Azar, reached the lowest and some even closed to be eliminated in China. In general, infectious diseases dropped to the tenth from the top one leading cause of all deaths, which means that the achievement of Chinese infectious disease prevention and treatment strategies contributed tremendously in improving Chinese people's health status and life expectancy.

New strategies to improve the health of Chinese people by 2030.

In October 2016, the leadership team of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted a plan aiming to build a healthy China over the next 15 years. The strategic tasks, mainly focused on promoting healthy lifestyles, optimising health services, improving health protection, building a healthy environment and developing the health industry, were proposed to deal with the health problems faced by China. According to the plan, China's health plan is likely to undergo a major change.

Exploration of Chinese style management for stroke prevention and treatment

With the acceleration of the aging process, chronic diseases have become the major threat to Chinese people's health. Stroke is in particular and has become the first death cause in China in recent years. However, there are still obvious deficiencies in the management system of stroke. An effective prevention and control model of stroke has not yet been established on national scale. The prevention and treatment of stroke is still in a low level in China. Good effects of stroke prevention and intervention have been achieved in several western modern countries. In order to establish a brand new stroke management system suitable for China's national condition, National Health and Family Planning Commission has launched stroke prevention and treatment project to explore the experience of stroke prevention and management. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2016.04.011

The Relationship between the Meaning of Life and Mental Health of Junior Middle School Students of Tujia and Hmong in Xiangxi, China

This paper chooses groups of middle school students of the Tujia and the Hmong who both live in ethnic groups and have history of intermarriage and cultural identity between each other as subjects to study the relationship between meaning of life and mental health based on the Xiangxi culture, which aims to provide evidence for the mental health education for middle school students in ethnic regions. Firstly, to resort to the method of Literature Collection: Pay attention to the influence of Xiangxi culture on the meaning of life and the relationship between meaning of life and mental health during the analysis of the material, trying to find out the true meanings; Secondly, using the Purpose-in-Life Test (PIL) and Mental Health Test (MHT), 913 junior high school students were investigated by cluster random sampling method. The results of the study indicated that the total score of meaning of life was significantly correlated with anxiety in people, isolation tendency, allergic tendency and tendency to impulsive (p 0.05). In addition, stepwise regression analysis showed that the value of life was the most important factor to predict mental health in meaning of life, and the second was the quality of life and the freedom of life. Therefore, junior high school students’ meaning of life and their mental health levels has a certain relationship. Introduction of empirical investigation helps to better research and analyze the relationship between meaning of life and mental health of Chinese people in junior high school in Xiangxi area and provides the basis in the practice of junior high school students’ mental health education and life education.

Schizophrenia nursing research in China from 2010 to 2014: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract Objective This study used a bibliometric analysis to explore the research development of schizophrenia nursing in China from 2010 to 2014. Methods The CNKI, VIP, and CBM databases were used to retrieve articles in China describing schizophrenia nursing that met the predefined criteria from 2010 to 2014. Altogether, 1486 articles were included and analyzed by bibliometric methods. Results The area of schizophrenia nursing had an annual average publication of 351 papers. The most productive institutions in schizophrenia nursing were located in Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Shandong, followed by Henan and Zhejiang. The papers were mainly published in the Medical Journal of Chinese People's Health and then in the International Journal of Nursing and the Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing. The study subjects mainly were on schizophrenics and then caregivers of schizophrenics (including families, nursing assistant, nurse). The most often used study designs in schizophrenia nursing research were a quasi-experimental study followed by experience reports and an investigational study. The research topics mainly focused on nursing intervention and rehabilitation training, followed by psychological, quality of life and social function. Conclusions The schizophrenia nursing research has rapidly developed, with extensive content and abundant study topics, over the past 5 years.

Offline: What Adam Smith can (and cannot) teach China

“Our goal is to improve the social role of doctors and to make their income higher than the average”, pledged Li Bin, China’s Minister of Health, last week. The authority she quoted for her statement? Adam Smith, who argued that doctors’ “reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in the society which so important a trust requires”. And, referring to the recent scandal over allegations of corruption by GlaxoSmithKline, she made her government’s position clear: “We should handle corruption in a very fi rm manner. We must cut it out like a tumour in a patient.” * Western perspectives on China are often shaped by perceptions of threat. Industrial growth that has created the second most powerful economy in the world. Diplomatic interventions designed to quell anticipated dangers to China’s national security. Diff erent and disputed views about media freedom and human rights. But viewed through a diff erent lens, China’s current status is far more vulnerable than most western commentators like to acknowledge. China is a nation passing through the largest and fastest economic and social transition of any country in the world today. 600 million people taken out of poverty since the 1970s. A 94% fall in under-5 deaths from 3·86 million in 1970 to 239 000 in 2013. These successes have raised huge expectations among a new, aspirational middle-class. Managing those expectations is no easy task. The goal of China’s government today is to preserve a peaceful and stable society at a time of unprecedented change. Strengthening the health system is a crucial domestic policy measure to ensure the fruits of China’s economic transition are translated into tangible advantages for its citizens. Instead of seeing China as a threat, the West might view China as a country that seeks strong and trusted partnerships to help solve its greatest challenges. When our Asia editor, Helena Wang, and I met China’s new Minister of Health, Li Bin, a year ago, she understandably had little to say about her achievements. But when we met her again last week, with our colleague Bill Summerskill, we discovered a very diff erent minister. Her fi rst priority had been to establish the newly created National Health and Family Planning Commission, which she directs, as the lead authority for health policy making— deepening health-care reform, refi ning the country’s birth policy, improving management of hospitals, strengthening public health services and the quality of care. Her objective was to advance the health of Chinese people through what she called “balanced development”. There had been progress. Health insurance was being widened with better subsidies to improve fi nancial risk protection. Childhood leukaemia, congenital heart disease, and renal dialysis are now included in basic packages of care. The least advantaged are covered through a Disease Emergency Relief Fund. The combination of these insurance schemes has achieved over 95% health coverage in urban and rural populations. A national essential drugs list has been expanded to include 520 medicines. Training of doctors has been standardised. 500 million people have benefi tted from gradual reforms to county hospitals. Triage is critical to these improvements. China cannot sustain a system where the hospital is the fi rst port of call for patients. Proper referral systems are needed, where primary and secondary care providers work more closely together. Here, China shares the same challenge as many higher income countries.

A new program to promote injury prevention and its application in China

To create Safe Community is considered a new methodology to promote Harmonious Society in China. Safe Community (SC) is centralized by “injury prevention” which is a concept involved from occupational safety and health in process industry. In this paper, it first examined the definition and elements of SC. Then, it introduced a Safe Community program in Honey Lake of Futian District of Shenzhen in detail to depict the actual procedure to create a desired Safe Community in China. In this application, Occupational Safety and Health Council in Hong Kong played an important role to instruct the design and execution of SC principle and suggest ways to crystallize a culture of safety within a Chinese community. From the SC program in Honey Lake of Futian District of Shenzhen, China has found out a new way to promote injury prevention in a community. Also, using these experiences from this program, more SC could be constructed that is beneficial to the safety and health of Chinese people.

Traditional Confucian Concepts of Mental Health: Its Implications to Social Work Practice with Chinese Communities

Traditional Confucian concept of mental health has a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. It stresses submissiveness of individuals to achieve harmony of the collective. Harmony is defined by the social order and authority figures in various social systems. It encourages people to restrain their emotions, avoid interpersonal conflicts and suppress individual rights so as to maintain a good harmony with others. Social workers should be aware of this cultural difference when working with the Chinese communities. They should recognise the dilemmas in, empowerment versus tolerance, changing of social environment versus suppressive collective harmony, cognition and emotional change versus rigid moralisation, self-actualisation versus self-sacrifice, emotional ventilation versus emotional restraint, self-determination versus self-defined by others, and mutual support versus egocentric preservation.

Neurological Letter From China

GENERAL HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT CHINA China has the largest population in the world: 1.2 billion people. Due to the extensive and effective effort to improve the public health since 1949,...

The mental health of Chinese people in Britain: An update on current literature

Research evidence concerning the mental health (including learning disability) of the Chinese population in Britain is much more limited than for other British ethnic groups. Chinese people do not have higher rates of psychiatric disorder but are underrepresented in service uptake on account of poor access. This is due to inadequate linguistic support in dealings with mainstream professionals, a lack of culturally competent practitioners and poor community awareness of mental illness issues. Information for service users and their carers in accessible Chinese is very limited. Younger Chinese people show partial identification with mainstream British society and experience of racism is pervasive. It is suggested that services for Chinese people are best developed through community organisations involving culturally and linguistically competent mental health practicioners linked to mainstream services and trained community workers.

Outcome measures of clinical effectiveness for traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been developed and practiced for thousands of years. It has made great contributions to the health of Chinese people. Facing the new development of modern sciences and technologies, there are certain different views regarding how to make greater progress in TCM and to evaluate its effectiveness. One point of view holds that there is no need to reassessment the effectiveness of TCM, since it has been practiced for many centuries, and its effectiveness has already been proven. The second point of view insists on adopting the methods and indices of modern medical sciences to evaluate the effectiveness of TCM. The third is to integrate the theories and experiences of TCM and modern medicine to design a new program to evaluate the effectiveness of TCM, The last one is the view with which I agree.