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The health penalty of China's rapid urbanization

Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and …Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of …

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