Diet, life-style, and mortality in China: a study of the characteristics of 65 Chinese counties

Abstract

This report presents data from a number of recent surveys undertaken in China including the 1983 ecological survey the 1973-1975 mortality survey and the 1984 nitrosamine survey. The chief purpose of the present monograph is simply to describe [population heterogeneity in China] by studying 65 rural counties and providing for each of them information on about 367 characteristics (82 standardized mortality rates from specific diseases and 285 biochemical and other characteristics chiefly from a special 1983 survey of adult blood urine diet and lifestyle in two randomly chosen villages in each of those 65 counties). (EXCERPT)

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ChinaLife styleStyle (visual arts)HistoryDemographyGeographySociologyArchaeology

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Year: 1991
Type: article
Volume: 28
Issue: 11
Pages: 28-5997
Citations: 186
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                                    Jian‐Min Chen, 
                                
                                    Campbell Tc, 
                                
                                    Li J
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1991). 
                            Diet, life-style, and mortality in China: a study of the characteristics of 65 Chinese counties. 
                            Choice Reviews Online
                            , 28
                            (11)
                            , 28-5997.
                            https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.28-5997
                        

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DOI: 10.5860/choice.28-5997