"The public health benefits of giving city dwellers increased opportunities to lead physically active lifestyles are well known to urban planners, public health scholars, and government officials. Moreover, increases in "active living," such as walking and cycling, help the environment, support...

"In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government and the ‘imperialist’ West. For the next thirty years under Mao’s leadership, the People’s Republic of China made improving the health of...