Determinants of health poverty vulnerability in rural areas of Western China in the post-poverty relief era: an analysis based on the Anderson behavioral model by Wenlong Wang, Kexin Chen, Wenwen Xiao, Jiancai Du, Hui Qiao

“…This study aimed to assess the health poverty vulnerability of rural households in western China and decompose its determinants. Methods Based on survey data from 2022, the three-stage feasible generalized least squares method was used to calculate the health poverty vulnerability index. …”
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Knowledge of HPV, its vaccines, and attitudes toward HPV vaccines among obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians and immunization services providers in Western China by Jianqiao Ma, Xi Zhang, Wei Wang, Rong Zhang, Mei Du, Li Shan, Yucong Li, Xiaohui Wang, Yijun Liu, Wen Zhang, Xiaoling Li, Youlin Qiao, Mengna Wei, Hui Chen, Jing Zhou, Jing Li

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Notes on Carex (Cyperaceae) from China (VIII): five new species and a new variety from southern and south-western China by Yi-Fei Lu, Xiao-Feng Jin

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Evaluating access to oral anti-diabetic medicines: A cross-sectional survey of prices, availability and affordability in Shaanxi Province, Western China. by Caijun Yang, Shuchen Hu, Yanbing Zhu, Wenwen Zhu, Zongjie Li, Yu Fang

“…OBJECTIVES:To assess the availability and affordability of oral anti-diabetic medicines in Shaanxi Province, Western China. METHODS:In 2015, the prices and availability of 8 anti-diabetic medicines covering 31 different dosage forms and strengths were collected in six cities of Shaanxi Province. …”
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Remote Sensing Monitoring and Evaluation of the Temporal and Spatial Changes in the Eco-Environment of a Typical Arid Land of the Tarim Basin in Western China by Lingxiao Sun, Yang Yu, Yuting Gao, Jing He, Xiang Yu, Ireneusz Malik, Malgorzata Wistuba, Ruide Yu

“…This paper takes Hetian, which is located in the Tarim Basin of Western China and has typical features of an arid (or a hyper-arid) region, as the research area. …”
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Academic expectations among international students from North-Western China: A case of technology use during and post COVID-19 by Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri, Salah A. M. Ahmed, Mohammed A. E. Suliman, Mohammad H. Al-khresheh, Azzeddine Boudouaia, Wei Zhao, Wenlan Zhang

“…This study examines the influence of the COVID-19 crisis on academic expectations among international students from north-western China. According to past studies, academic expectations are multifaceted, making it critical to test the methods employed to assess this fundamental trait. …”
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Epidemiological analysis of respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases in three counties of Sichuan: the baseline survey of Disaster Mitigation Demonstration Area in western China by Zhiqiang Xue, Zhenbo Yang, Hui Sun, Jinghuan Ren, Mengzi Sun, Jiagen Li, Anning Zhang, Pingping Zheng, Pan Pan, Jing Dou, Li Shen, Yang Chen, Kexin Li, Tianyu Feng, Yaogai Lv, Chunli Bi, Lina Jin, Zhe Wang, Yan Yao

“…Methods Data were collected from the local Centers for Disease Control infectious disease reports from Lu, Shifang and Yuexi counties from 2011 to 2015 and from the baseline survey of the Disaster Mitigation Demonstration Area in Western China in 2016. Principal component regression was used to explore the main influencing factors of respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs). …”
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Assessment of self-reported financial toxicity among patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy: A cross-sectional study in western China by Hua Jiang, Wenxuan Mou, Jianxia Lyu, Luxi Jiang, Ying Liu, Yu Zeng, Aiping Hu, Wei Zheng, Qinghua Jiang, Shuang Yang

“…Objective Using the Comprehensive Score for Financial Toxicity (COST) tool to measure financial toxicity (FT) among nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) patients in western China and investigate the association between FT and psychological distress.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study of survivors with NPC in a tertiary oncology hospital in China. …”
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Retrograde metamorphism of the eclogite in North Qaidam, western China: Constraints by joint 40Ar/39Ar in vacuo crushing and stepped heating by Rongguo Hu, Jan Wijbrans, Fraukje Brouwer, Linghao Zhao, Min Wang, Huaning Qiu

“…Two amphiboles and a syn-metamorphic quartz vein from the Yuka terrane, North Qaidam, western China, have been analyzed by joint 40Ar/39Ar crushing in vacuo and stepwise heating techniques. …”
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Developing a Systematic-Dynamic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis: A Study Protocol in the Context of the Doctor–Patient Relationship in Western China by Longtao He, Yan Qin

“…This protocol article proposes a research design that constructs a systematic-dynamic CDA approach in the context of the doctor–patient relationship in western China in order to incorporate the aforementioned factors that previous Chinese scholarship has ignored. …”
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Spatial Pattern of Large-Scale Agricultural Land and Spatial Heterogeneity of Influencing Factors in the Mountainous Areas of Western China—Wuling Mountains as an Example by Yu Chen, Wenhui Zhang, Yilian Liu, Weisong Li, Chengwu Liu, Shengfu Yang

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Association of socioeconomic status with glycated haemoglobin level and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy: a cross-sectional study in Sichuan, western China by Xin Zhang, Wei Yang, Xianping Wu, Yin Deng, Jing Zeng, Xinyin Xu, Ting Dong, Lingling Liu, Chengxu Long, Ji Kui

“…This study aimed to add evidence from socioeconomic factors.Design A cross-sectional survey of people with diabetes conducted in 2019 was analysed by using logistic regression to evaluate the association of socioeconomic factors with the glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) level and DR.Setting Five counties/districts of western China (Sichuan) were included.Participants Registered participants with diabetes aged from 18 to 75 years were selected, and at last 2179 participants were included in the analysis.Results In this cohort, 37.13% (adjusted value 36.52%), 19.78% (adjusted value 19.59%) and 17.37% of participants had HbA1c<7.0%, DR (24.96% of those in the high-HbA1c group) and non-proliferative DR, respectively. …”
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What Prompted the Adoption of Self-Protective Behaviors in Response to COVID-19? Evidence From Women Living in the Rural Areas of Western China by Ruixue Ye, Yuju Wu, Chang Sun, Qingzhi Wang, Yuping Mao, Wei Chang, Huan Zhou

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Community social capital and the health-related quality of life among empty-nest elderly in western China: moderating effect of living arrangements by Huan Zhu, Lei He, Jiayi Peng, Xingyue LI, Bo Gao, Huan Zhou, Yang Wan

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Association between the Infant and Child Feeding Index (ICFI) and nutritional status of 6- to 35-month-old children in rural western China. by Pengfei Qu, Baibing Mi, Duolao Wang, Ruo Zhang, Jiaomei Yang, Danmeng Liu, Shaonong Dang, Hong Yan

“…The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the quality of feeding practices and children's nutritional status in rural western China.A sample of 12,146 pairs of 6- to 35-month-old children and their mothers were recruited using stratified multistage cluster random sampling in rural western China. …”
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The Effects of a New Public Medicine Procurement Policy on Medicine Price in Shaanxi Province, Western China: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis by Shuchen Hu, Shuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chen Chen, Shengfang Yuan, Shengfang Yuan, Fei Xue, Fei Xue, Li Shi, Li Shi, Yu Fang, Yu Fang, Caijun Yang, Caijun Yang

“…Objectives: To assess the effects on medicine price, a new public medicine procurement policy (NPMPP) undertaken in western China in 2015.Methods: An interrupted time series analysis was used to evaluate the impact of NPMPP on the prices of emergency medicines, gynaecological medicines, and paediatric medicines in Shaanxi Province, western China. …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of medication and its influencing factors among residents in western China: a large-scale cross-sectional study by Hong-xia Shi, Xue Tan, Jian-qin Shu, Jun Zhou, Si-yuan Dan, Lin Yang, Ze-lian Chen

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Driving Forces for the Spatial Reconstruction of Rural Settlements in Mountainous Areas Based on Structural Equation Models: A Case Study in Western China by Jia Zhong, Shaoquan Liu, Min Huang, Sha Cao, Hui Yu

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Association between birth season and physical development in children under 3 years old residing in low-income counties in western China. by Fangliang Lei, Shanshan Li, Baibing Mi, Danmeng Liu, Jiaomei Yang, Pengfei Qu, Ruo Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jia Ying, Shaonong Dang, Hong Yan

“…To explore the association between birth season and physical development and provide a necessary reference value to inform the implementation of public health services.Cross-sectional study.Forty-five counties in ten provinces in western China in 2005.A sample of 13,387 children under 3 years old and their mothers were recruited using a stratified, multistage, cluster random sampling method.The results of the circular distribution analysis suggested that stunting and underweight exhibited time aggregation (Z = 32.57, P<0.05; Z = 10.42, P<0.05) among children under 3 years old. …”
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Systematic comparison of InSAR and seismic source models for moderate-size earthquakes in Western China: implication to the seismogenic capacity of the shallow crust by Luo, Heng, Wang, Teng, Wei, Shengji

“…To further improve the resolution of earthquake source parameters, we use Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images to derive source solutions of 33 moderate-size (Mw 4.1–6.6) earthquakes that occurred at shallow depths (<20 km) from November 2014 to July 2020 in western China. After evaluating the uncertainties of the InSAR solutions, we systematically compare the location, centroid depth, focal mechanism and magnitude from InSAR models with that from seismic catalogs. …”
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