Design and Development of a Big Data Platform for Disease Burden Based on the Spark Engine.

Objective: This study attempts to build a big data platform for disease burden that can realize the deep coupling of artificial intelligence and public health. This is a highly open and shared intelligent platform, including big data collection, analysis, and result visualization.

Methods: Based on data mining theory and technology, the current situation of multisource data on disease burden was analyzed.

Time trends in the burden of stroke and subtypes attributable to PM2.5 in China from 1990 to 2019.

Background: Increasing studies have found that PM2.5 has large adverse effects on stroke mortality. We want to investigate the long-term trends in the mortality of stroke attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution and household air pollution to provide evidence facilitating the design of policy.

Life satisfaction and its influencing factors of middle-aged and elderly stroke patients in China: a national cross-sectional survey.

Objectives: This study reports the life satisfaction of middle-aged and elderly patients who had a stroke in China, and explores its association with patients' sociodemographic characteristics, health status, lifestyles and family relationship.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting And Participants: The samples of this study were selected from the data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2018, which covered 28 provinces, 150 countries/districts and 450 village/urban communities.

[Prostatitis studies in China from 2000 to 2020: A Knowledge Atlas-based study on the development trend of contemporary disciplines].

Objective: To review and analyze the trend of researches on prostatitis in China in the past two decades.

Methods: We searched the core collection of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) for studies on prostatitis, and analyzed the data obtained using Excel, Citespace and VOSviewer.

Results: Totally, 1 216 original articles were identified, with 3 271 keywords, ≥3-time high-frequency keywords accounting for 12.

Quality of Health Economic Evaluations in Mainland China: A Comparison of Peer-Reviewed Articles in Chinese and in English.

Objective: Our objective was to assess the incidence and quality of reporting of published health economic evaluations in mainland China and compare the quality of peer-reviewed articles in Chinese and English.

Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted for economic evaluations pertaining to China published from 2006 to 2015 using the PubMed, CBM, CMCC, CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang databases. All studies in English that met the inclusion criteria were included.

Delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients with diabetes mellitus co-morbidity and its associated factors in Zhejiang Province, China.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global public health problem. China has the second highest TB burden in the world. With a growing TB population with diabetes mellitus (DM), the TB control system faces mounting challenges.

Educational attainment and mortality: results from the Sixth Population Census in China.

Background: Health and education are two closely related factors that affect human development. A limited number of studies have been conducted in China, most of which have been based on small sample sizes and with inconsistent results. The study investigates the association between mortality rate and educational level in China based on the sixth national population census in 2010.

MiR-199a-3p enhances breast cancer cell sensitivity to cisplatin by downregulating TFAM (TFAM).

Chemotherapy resistance is the major obstacle to the effective therapy of cancer. While the mechanism of chemotherapy resistance is still not fully understood. Increasing evidences demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) may have a crucial function in chemotherapy resistance through modulating intracellular pathways.

How to overcome violence against Healthcare professionals, reduce medical disputes and ensure patient safety.

Background & Objective: In recent years there have been many cases of violence against healthcare professionals (HCPs) in China leading to the death of some doctors as well as nurses by patient's relatives. Our objective was to identify the causative factors for these violent acts and address these isssues which is vital to ensure patient safety.

Methods: A multidisciplinary research task force was formed to do a root cause analysis of the violent acts against the healthcare professionals.

Measuring the burden of disease using disability-adjusted life years in Shilin County of Yunnan Province, China.

Background: Few studies calculating burden of disease (BOD) have been carried out in China. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) is one of the useful methods used to estimate BOD. This study aims to use DALY for evaluating BOD and to provide useful information for health planning for residents in Shilin Yi Nationality Autonomous County (Shilin County) of Yunnan Province, China.

Assessing the disease burden of Yi people by years of life lost in Shilin county of Yunnan province, China.

Background: Years of Life Lost (YLL) is one of the methods used to estimate the duration of time lost due to premature death. While previous studies of disease burden have been reported using YLL, there have been no studies investigating YLL of Yi people in rural China. Yunnan Province ranks first in terms of Yi people in China.