Quality of housing plays one of the key roles in a public health research, since inadequate housing may have direct or indirect negative impact on health. Higher satisfaction with housing was shown to be associated with higher income, higher age, a smaller family, higher education, being female...

In recent years, researchers and health care professionals have shown an increasing interest in the health gain associated with breastfeeding and in the problems arising from bottle feeding. It seems that there has been an ideological shift towards the belief that breastfeeding is beneficial and...

Männer und Frauen sind unterschiedlich und handeln unterschiedlich. Diese Erkenntnis bildet das Fundament des Gender Marketing, das sowohl in der Theorie als auch in der Praxis zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung dieser Disziplin ist für Unter-nehmen eine wichtige...

This paper considers a simple step-stress accelerated life test model under progressive Type-I hybrid censoring scheme. The progressive Type-I hybrid censoring scheme and statistical method in synthetic accelerated stresses are provided so as to decrease the lifetime and reduce the test cost. An...

The authors report the results of a review of the Chinese-language and English-language literatures on service delivery in China, asking how well China's health care providers perform, what determines their performance, and how the government can improve it. They find current performance leaves...

We report the results of a review of the Chinese- and English-language literatures on service delivery in China, asking how well China's health-care providers perform and what determines their performance. Although data and methodological limitations suggest caution in drawing conclusions, a...

Objectives The objectives of this paper are: (1) to estimate the transition probabilities among self-rated health status for the oldest Chinese aged 80 and above; (2) to project the future need of long-term care due to changes in demography and health status among the oldest Chinese.Methods...