The impact of National Centralised Drug Procurement policy on the use of policy-related original and generic drugs in China.

Aims: To evaluate the effects of the first round of National Centralised Drug Procurement pilot (so-called '4+7' policy) on the use of policy-related original and generic drugs.

Methods: This study used drug purchasing order data from the Centralised Drug Procurement Survey in Shenzhen 2019, covering 24 months from January 2018 to December 2019. '4+7' policy-related drugs were selected as study samples, including 25 drugs in the '4+7' procurement list and 69 alternative drugs that have an alternative relationship with '4+7' List drugs in clinical use.

Trends and Associated Factors of Dietary Knowledge among Chinese Older Residents: Results from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 2004-2015.

Promoting a healthy diet of the elderly is an important task in the current "Healthy China Action". This study aimed to describe the changing trends of the dietary knowledge elderly Chinese during 2004-2015 and to examine the associated factors of dietary knowledge. Elderly people aged ≥60 years were included as study subjects from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 2004-2015.