Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data and opportunities to improve and/or enable research decision-support applications with unprecedented value for digital earth including business, sciences engineering. At same time, presents challenges store, transport, process, mine serve data. Cloud computing provides fundamental support address shared resources computing, storage, networking analytical software; application of these fostered impressive...

Background Inequalities in early childhood development (ECD) tend to persist into adulthood and amplify across the life course. To date, little research on inequalities care low/middle-income countries has been available guide governments, donors civil society identifying which young children families should be targeted by policies programmes improve nurturing that could prevent them from being left behind. Methods Using data 135 Demographic Health Surveys Multiple Indicator Cluster between...

The rapid development of digital platform businesses has facilitated the expansion gig work in China and elsewhere recent years. Now that IT-powered platforms have been used part to free capital from taking employer responsibilities, capital’s toolkit for labor control significantly limited. Drawing on qualitative field research supplemented by quantitative data Uber China, this article provides a novel empirical account platforms, more importantly, their effects different types workers....

Abstract Hypertension is a disease closely related to inflammation, and the systemic immunity-inflammation index (SII) new easily detectable inflammatory marker. We aimed investigate association between SII hypertension risk in adult population US. utilized data from National Health Nutrition Examination Survey spanning 1999 2018, incorporating comprehensive information adults reporting hypertension. This included details on blood pressure monitoring, complete cell counts, standard...

Against the achievement of nearly universal coverage for social health insurance elderly in China, a problem inequity among different schemes on outcomes is still big challenge care system. Whether various have divergent effects outcome puzzle. Empirical evidence will be investigated this study.This study employs nationally representative survey database, National Survey Aged Population Urban/Rural to compare changes before and after reform. A one-way ANOVA utilized detect disparities...

Background Rabies in China remains a public health problem. In 2014, nearly one thousand rabies-related deaths were reported while rabies geographic distribution has expanded for the recent years. This report used surveillance data to describe epidemiological characteristics of human including determining high-risk areas and seasonality support national prevention control activities. Methods We analyzed incidence cases mainland using notifiable from 1960–2014, which includes detailed...

Abstract Escalating health costs have incentivized many countries to adopt mixed payment systems. This study investigates how different prospective methods—including global budgets, capitation, per diem, single disease payment, diagnosis‐related groups, and diagnosis intervention packet—interact affect in China. Using a novel policy database, we applied supervised machine learning techniques gauge prefectural efforts implementing these methods. By matching data with nationally representative...

To elucidate the clinical, radiological and laboratory profiles of renal abscess (RA) perinephric (PNA), along with related treatment outcome.Ninety-eight patients diagnosed RA or PNA using primary discharge diagnoses identified from International Statistical Classification Diseases Related Health Problems Tenth Edition (ICD-10) codes (RA: N15.101, PNA: N15.102) between September 2004 December 2014 in West China Hospital were selected. Medical records including patients' characteristics,...

Big consumer data promises to be a game changer in applied and empirical marketing research. However, investigations of how big helps inform consumers’ psychological aspects have, thus far, only received scant attention. Psychographics has been shown valuable market segmentation path understanding preferences. Although the context e-commerce, as component psychographic segmentation, personality proven effective for prediction e-commerce user preferences, it still remains unclear whether is...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with shocks. Exploiting rollout a universal program rural China, I find that total household income and consumption are fully insured against shocks even without access to insurance. Household labor supply is an important mechanism Access helps households maintain investment children's human capital during negative shocks, which suggests one benefit could arise from...

China uses both social health insurance (SHI) programs and a medical financial assistance (MFA) program to protect the poor from illness-induced risks. The MFA provides dual benefit package targeting low-income families: subsidizing these families' participation in SHI programs, providing cash aid them catastrophic expenditure (CHE). This study aims investigate: (1) association between subvention for enrollment enrollment; (2) CHE; (3) CHE households China. Using nationally representative...

To study the validity of an artificial intelligence (AI) model for measuring fetal facial profile markers, and to evaluate clinical value AI identifying abnormalities during first trimester.This retrospective used two-dimensional mid-sagittal images taken singleton pregnancies at 11-13+ 6 weeks gestation. We measured including inferior angle (IFA), maxilla-nasion-mandible (MNM) angle, facial-maxillary (FMA), frontal space (FS) distance, line (PL) distance using manual measurements. Semantic...

Many developing countries have implemented social health insurance programmes to protect their citizens against the financial risks of seeking healthcare. While many studies explored how individual enrolments affect catastrophic spending (CHS) in short term, there is a lack evidence on long-term macro-level effects CHS low- and middle-income countries. This study examines Basic Medical Insurance (BMI) China, country that has witnessed one highest worldwide increases rates despite its...

Although previous research ignores other subsidy groups, we conduct a comprehensive study. In our closed-loop supply chain model, the manufacturer can produce either new products or remanufactured of end-of-life recycled by independent recyclers. Our core objective is to explore production and recycling strategies two under different government plans which groups should target. Considering consumers’ discount perception uncertainty quantity, construct four game scenarios: (1) no (Scenario N...

Subnational disparities in most health systems often defy 'one-size-fits-all' approach policy implementation. When local authorities implement a national decentralized context, they behave as strategic actor specifying the central mandates, selecting appropriate tools and setting key implementation parameters. Local discretion leads to diverse mixes across regions, thus complicating evidence-based evaluations of impacts. measuring complex reforms, mainstream evaluation methodologies have...

Social insurance promotes progressive redistribution through risk pooling and cross‐subsidy. However, in C hina, risks protection are mismatched, with benefits accruing to the privileged while high‐risk groups inadequately protected. This article reports on a study of sources regressive hinese pension, health unemployment programmes, discusses possible cause this paradox. It argues that government has adopted different strategies for welfare reform towards socioeconomic groups. For core...

Large and increasing numbers of rural-to-urban migrants provided new challenges for tuberculosis control in large cities China increased the need high quality care delivered by clinics urban migrant communities. Based on a household survey communities, we selected separated into those that mainly serve local residents. Using standardized patients, this study an objective comparison both types examined factors related to care. Only 27% (95% confidence interval (CI) 14⁻46) cases were correctly...

Ensuring equal access to care and providing financial risk protection are at the center of global health agenda. While Rwanda has made impressive progress in improving outcomes, inequalities medical utilization household catastrophic spending (HCHS) between impoverished non-impoverished populations persist. Decomposing will help us understand factors contributing design effective policy instruments reducing inequalities. This study aims decompose among those reporting illnesses HCHS poverty...

Summary The notion of strategic purchasing has gained increasing currency in the global health policy discourse. It is believed that an active prudent purchaser able to act best interest both government and consumers as a third party negotiating with providers for cost‐effective care. would be wrong, however, assume formation third‐party automatically leads such desired outcomes. A variety agency problems relating incompetence often prevent purchasers from fulfilling their mandates,...