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Epidemic transition of environmental health risk during China’s urbanization
- Source :
- Science Bulletin. 62:92-98
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- China has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades along with dramatic economic growth. Previous studies have shown that urbanization has both positive and negative effects on health. However, there is a lack of research on the overall effects of urbanization on the epidemic transition of environmental health risks considering various pathways in China. In the present study, we studied the contributions of different aspects of urbanization in China to epidemic transitions using provincial and multi-year (1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010) panel data. Statistical models with fixed and random effects were developed to explore the impacts of different urbanization indicators on the overall epidemic transition of environmental health (general model) and the changes in cause-specific mortality rates of typical diseases (cause-specific models). The results show that the impacts of non-communicable diseases continue to grow during the urbanization process in China. The ratio of communicable disease-related mortality to non-communicable disease-related mortality continues to decrease over time. The general model shows that the improved medical conditions (coefficient = −0.0011, P = 0.037), the improved urban infrastructure (e.g., tap water supply) (coefficient = −0.00065, P
- Subjects :
- Multidisciplinary
Mortality rate
Urban infrastructure
010501 environmental sciences
Random effects model
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Geography
Urbanization
Environmental health
030212 general & internal medicine
China
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Panel data
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20959273
- Volume :
- 62
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........66691bd651b916f7e940302d50ba42d1