Lancet
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Health literacy is important in public health and health care, particularly in effective communication between patients and nurses. The aim of this study was to explore the health literacy level and its influence factors in undergraduate nursing students. ⋯ This project was supported by the Humanity and Social Science Foundation of China's Ministry of Education (15YJA860020).
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The rate of increase in prevalence of childhood obesity in mainland China exceeds the trends observed in other countries. Effective, culturally appropriate prevention interventions are urgently needed to control the epidemic. However, previous programmes lacked rigorous development and evaluation. Using the framework set out by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), we developed a complex childhood obesity prevention intervention for Chinese primary school children. ⋯ University of Birmingham, Zhejiang Yong Ning Pharmaceutical.
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Enormous efforts have been made to decentralise HIV service delivery in China, gradually developing a network of thousands of Centres For Disease Control And Prevention (CDCs) with or without local hospitals providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to every village or equivalent. However, in the Guangdong Province, China, most infected patients from CDCs delivering HIV services have been switched to sentinel hospitals, providing an opportunity to examine this shift on linkage to care, retention, and mortality among people living with HIV. We examined long-term outcomes of people living with HIV who accessed services through sentinel hospitals and CDCs in the Guangdong Province. ⋯ This study was supported by Twelve Fifth Key Research grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China (2012ZX10001003-003), Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201300000092), and the US National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center Global Infectious Diseases Training Grant (1D43TW009532-01). These fundings had no role in study design and data analyses.
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Previous studies have shown that health insurance type affects patient outcomes, but empirical research on the effect of health insurance on quality and efficiency of care in China is scarce. This study aimed to determine whether there are health insurance-related differences in hospital care for acute myocardial infraction. ⋯ None.
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Critics argue that traditional Chinese medicine should focus on a personalised patient experience, and that standardised practices risk killing the traditional art. The development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for Chinese medicine, which began 30 years ago, has risen remarkably over the years. However, for individual practitioners for whom these guidelines are recommended, the impact of the CPGs on clinical practice and their acceptability remain unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate acceptability of standardisation guidelines in traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in China, and the effect of CPGs on clinical practice. ⋯ Chinese Ministry of Finance (number ZYYBZ-2012).