control of maternal mortality a major challenge. This study analysed maternal mortality and causes of death in pregnant women … hospitals, and training for health professionals and health education for women were instituted. Maternal mortality in Shanghai …

Already home to 23% of the global elderly population, China will experience further demographic change in the coming … estimate healthy life expectancy at birth in 2015 for 31 province-level regions in China for both males and females. We discuss … the implications of our results for planned increases in the retirement age in China and for long-term care insurance …

(95% CI: 0.21, 1.07). This estimate is derived from quasi-experimental variation in PM10 generated by China's Huai River … entirely due to elevated rates of cardiorespiratory mortality, suggesting that PM10 is the causal factor. The estimates imply … that bringing all of China into compliance with its Class I standards for PM10 would save 3.7 billion life years …

mortality in China. Causal inference relies on changes in local pollution correlated with demand shocks from export destinations … long-term exposure to PM2.5 on cardiovascular and respiratory mortality. Mortality impacts are largest for those 65 years … concave dose-response, with diminishing marginal mortality impacts of pollution at levels beyond those in developed nations …

a study that estimates individuals' willingness to pay for cancer risk prevention in three provinces of China. The … reducing the anticipated incidence of cancer mortality by one in the population is 73,000 yuan and an average value of 795 … statistical life, which are mostly based on average willingness-to-pay values of mortality risk reduction …

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard … deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases infant mortality by 2.2 deaths per thousand live births, which is about 13 …