The Association between the Availability of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage in School Vending Machines and Its Consumption among Adolescents in California: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
Les études chinoises et la professionnalisation : la filière LEA a-t-elle un avenir ?
Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child, Science and Policy in Deng's China
Access to food outlets and children's nutritional intake in urban China: a difference-in-difference analysis
Abstract
Background
In recent years supermarkets and fast food restaurants have been replacing those “wet markets” of independent vendors as the major food sources in urban China. Yet how these food outlets relate to children’s nutritional intake remains largely unexplored.
M...
Excessive recreational computer use and food consumption behaviour among adolescents
Abstract
Introduction
Using the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data, we explore the association between excessive recreational computer use and specific food consumption behavior among California's adolescents aged 12-17.
Method
The adolescent component...
"Risk homeostasis"or "teachable moment"? the interaction between smoking behavior and lung cancer screening in the Mayo Lung Project
Abstract
The chest X-ray lung cancer screening program of Mayo Lung Project (MLP) yielded mixed results of improved lung case survival but no improvement in lung cancer mortality. This paper analyzes the smoking patterns of study participants in order to examine possible behavioral ramific...