Understanding the regional pattern of population aging in China enables rational policy making to address the challenges of inequity in social welfare and care resources among the east–central–west regions and rural–urban...
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Progress in tobacco control in Singapore: lessons and challenges in the implementation of the framework convention on tobacco control
Singapore has implemented tobacco control policies since the 1970s, more than three decades before it became party to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control—the first evidence-based global...
The state of tobacco control in ASEAN: framing the implementation of the FCTC from a health systems perspective
Government and governance | Asia
Using a tobacco control framework that combines demand-reduction and selected supply-reduction measures according to a health system’s building blocks, this article aims to assess the state of Framework Convention on Tobacco...
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure—universal health coverage to strengthen health security
The Sustainable Development Goal 3 targets aim to ensure that individuals achieve universal health coverage and that the capacity of countries, to identify early warnings, implement risk reduction plans and to...
Sustainable development in four East Asian countries’ agricultural sectors post-World War II: measuring nutrient balance and estimating the environmental Kuznets Curve
The purpose of this study is to measure agricultural waste and estimate the environmental Kuznets curve in four East Asian countries using time series data from the 1960s to the 2010s....
Location or Hukou: what most limits fertility of urban women in China?
China’s fertility rate is below replacement level. The government is attempting to increase this rate by relaxing the one-child policy. China faces a possible tradeoff because further urbanization is needed to...