Jie Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jie Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jie |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3601-5402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The quality and reliability of online video resources concerning patient education for migraine treatment in China Mainland
The results of our research revealed that the quality and reliability of Chinese language online videos focused on patient education for migraine treatment were inadequate, suggesting that viewers should treat these contents with caution. However, the prospects for video-based patient education remain promising. Implementing appropriate strategies, such as strengthening regulations on health-related videos and instituting a review process conduct…
Relation of poverty with treatment-seeking behavior and antibiotic misuse among UTI patients in Pakistan
Objective The current study aimed to assess the relation between multi-dimension poverty, treatment-seeking behavior, and antibiotic misuse among urinary tract infection (UTI) patients. Method A cross-sectional approach was utilized to recruit patients who had a history of UTI in the previous month from two provinces of Pakistan. The treatment-seeking behavior and antibiotic misuse data were collected on a self-developed questionnaire, whereas th…
Dispensing of antibiotics for tuberculosis patients using standardized patient approach at community pharmacies
Background: Pakistan is among top countries for antibiotic consumption around the globe and patients often receive antibiotics directly from community pharmacies. Thus, our aim was to assess the drug dispensing practices of pharmacies for presumed and confirmed tuberculosis by using standardized patients' method in Pakistan. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we adopted two standardized patient cases in pharmacies of three cities of Punjab. …
Association of long-term exposure to various ambient air pollutants, lifestyle, and genetic predisposition with incident cognitive impairment and dementia
Exposure to air pollution was found to be a significant contributing factor to cognitive impairment and dementia, and this association was not easily modified by an individual's genetic predisposition. However, adopting a healthy lifestyle may help to manage the risk of cognitive decline related to air pollution
Scaling of multiple functional facilities covering comprehensive processes in cities
Spatial inequality of shopping opportunities under the boom of express deliveries in China
Driving Time to the Nearest Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-Capable Hospital and the Risk of Case Fatality in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Beijing
Timely arrival at a hospital capable of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is critical in treating acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We examined the association between driving time to the nearest PCI-capable hospital and case fatality among AMI patients. A total of 142,474 AMI events during 2013-2019 from the Beijing Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance System were included in this cross-sectional study. The driving time from the residenti…
Medicinal use of cannabis
We conducted a qualitative study to examine the enablers and barriers influencing the implementation of medical cannabis from the perspectives of practicing doctors and pharmacists within the African context. Interviews were conducted to investigate medical professionals' perceptions and concerns regarding medicinal cannabis. Three major themes were identified: beliefs about consequences, optimism, and environmental resources and context. Dependi…
Comparative research on the development of college students’ physical fitness based on online physical education during the Covid-19 pandemic
The pairwise comparisons of physical fitness test results from 2019 to 2021 show that online physical education is effective in improving all items except long-distance running. Future research needs to involve a larger and geographically more dispersed sample to further analyse the effectiveness of online physical education
Using street view imagery to examine the association between urban neighborhood disorder and the long-term recurrence risk of patients discharged with acute myocardial infarction in central Beijing, C…
Serious neighborhood disorder may contribute to higher recurrence risk, particularly fatal recurrence, among AMI patients. Policies to eliminate neighborhood disorders may play an important role in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Lessons learned from Covid-19 vaccination implementation
Views of Pharmacists and Government Representatives Toward the Pilot Chief Pharmacist System in Chinese Hospitals
Background: In China, the pharmacy departments of most hospitals have changed their main focus from drug procurement and distribution to providing pharmaceutical care services. Various regions of China have successively implemented the pilot Chief Pharmacist System (CPS) to help improve pharmaceutical care services and rational drug use in hospitals. This study was designed to explore the perspectives of pharmacists and government officials on CP…
Inequalities of urban green space area and ecosystem services along urban center-edge gradients
The Reader’s Visibility
Assessment of Factors Associated with Unfavorable Outcomes among Drug-Resistant TB Patients
The spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR TB) poses significant challenges to the control and successful eradication of TB globally. The current retrospective study was designed to evaluate the treatment outcomes and identify the risk factors associated with unsuccessful outcomes among DR TB patients. A total of 277/308 eligible DR TB patients were enrolled for treatment at the programmatic management unit of DR TB at the Pakistan Institute o…
Identifying the greenhouses by Google Earth Engine to promote the reuse of fragmented land in urban fringe
Depressive State in the Emergency Department During Covid-19
Chinese emergency department (ED) staff encountered significant mental stress while fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We sought to investigate the prevalence and associated factors for depressive symptoms among ED staff (including physicians, nurses, allied health, and auxiliary ED staff). A cross-sectional national survey of ED staff who were on duty and participated in combating the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted March…
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Antibiotics and Its Resistance
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is an emerging global threat to public health. Substantial evidence has indicated that community pharmacists (CPs) can play a critical role in managing the ever-increasing threat of antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practices of CPs ( n = 180) towards antibiotics and antibiotic resistance as well as to improve the rational use of antibiotics. A two-phase mixed-methods (qu…
Impact of Protracted Displacement on Delay in the Diagnosis Associated with Treatment Outcomes
Human displacement is on the rise globally, and the increase in the burden of tuberculosis (TB) is also attributed to migrations worldwide. A significant number of such displacements occur in regions with considerably higher areas of TB burden. Displacements may delay TB diagnosis and treatment, which will possibly lead to TB transmission among healthy individuals. In this study, we assessed the association of existing determinants after a protra…
Trends and Inequalities in the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction among Beijing Townships, 2007–2018
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) poses a serious disease burden in China, but studies on small-area characteristics of AMI incidence are lacking. We therefore examined temporal trends and geographic variations in AMI incidence at the township level in Beijing. In this cross-sectional analysis, 259,830 AMI events during 2007-2018 from the Beijing Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance System were included. We estimated AMI incidence for 307 consiste…
Combining and competing effects between precipitation and temperature on Holocene fire regime evolution inferred from a sedimentary black carbon record in southwestern China
Wildfires are sensitive to climate change, but their response to changes in temperature and precipitation on long timescales is still disputed. In this study, we present a ~9.4 ka black carbon mass sedimentation rate (BCMSR) record from Lake Ximenglongtan (XMLT), southwestern China, to elucidate the Holocene fire regime and its linkages to climatic conditions. The results indicate that the regional fire activity was low during the early Holocene …
City components–area relationship and diversity pattern
Prices, Availability and Affordability of Medicines with Value-Added Tax Exemption
Access to medicines in both sectors was affected by low availability. High prices of OBs influenced the affordability of medicines even with tax exemption. A review of policies and regulations should be initiated for a better access to medicines in the Philippines
Analysis of Antibiotic Use Patterns and Trends Based on Procurement Data of Healthcare Institutions in Shaanxi Province, Western China, 2015–2018
Overuse of antibiotics has caused a series of global problems, especially in the underdeveloped western regions where healthcare systems are fragile. We used antibiotic procurement data of all healthcare institutions to analyze the total amount, patterns and trends of antibiotic use in Shaanxi Province, western China between 2015 and 2018. Antibiotic utilization was quantified using the standard Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC)/Defined daily…
A quantitative temperature reconstruction of the ‘Little Ice Age’ in southern China
We present a branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs)–based mean annual temperature reconstruction covering the last millennium from a subtropical lake in Guangxi Province, southern China (23°N). We demonstrate that the pattern and absolute values of mean annual temperatures reconstructed using the eastern African lake brGDGTs calibration based on the methylation of 5-methyl branched tetraethers index provided the most reliable an…
Lessons learned from Covid-19 vaccination implementation
Nitrate in groundwater of China
Assessment of net ecosystem services of plastic greenhouse vegetable cultivation in China
Scaling of multiple functional facilities covering comprehensive processes in cities
Summer temperature variability inferred from subfossil chironomid assemblages from the south-east margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau for the last 5000 years
We present a quantitative mean July temperature record spanning the last c. 5000 years from an alpine lake in south-western China. The reconstruction is based on the application of an established chironomid-based inference model using 100 lakes from the region. The reconstructed summer temperature changes are within 2.4°C of modern throughout the record. The results suggest that the summer temperature changes in south-east margin of the Qinghai–T…
Ecosystem service value assessment for constructed wetlands
Quasi-scientific Approaches Made by Impressionist Painters (Claude Monet) and Literary Naturalists (Emile Zola)
The history of Europe witnessed the triumph of science, economic expansion, social improvement, and political progress in the middle decades of 19th Century. There emerged a new cultural trend of Positivism that matched with this progress and prosperity in the society. Naturalism in literature and impressionism in paintings, in abroad sense, both belonged to the Positivistic cultural movement. Emile Zola, a French Positivistic Realism-Naturalism …
Reactions against Historicism of German Bauhaus and the Reaction against “Passeism” of Italian Futurism
Bauhaus was a school of art and architecture in Germany. It was founded at Weimar with Walter Gropius as the first director. The faculty of the school included artists as famous as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer. (Note 1) The early years of Bauhaus were marked by a determination to reform art education as well as to create a new society. Due to the hostility from right wing politicians and academicians, the schoo…
The role of technology and policy in mitigating regional nitrogen pollution
Human activity greatly influences nitrogen (N) pollution in urbanized and adjacent areas. We comprehensively studied the N cycling in an urban-rural complex system, the Greater Hangzhou Area (GHA) in southeastern China. Our results indicated that subsurface N accumulation doubled, riverine N export tripled and atmospheric N pollutants increased 2.5 times within the GHA from 1980-2004. Agriculture was the largest N pollution source to air and wate…
Assessment of net ecosystem services of plastic greenhouse vegetable cultivation in China
Nitrate in groundwater of China
Antibiotic Self-Medication among Non-Medical University Students in Punjab, Pakistan
Background : Antibiotic resistance is a global threat. Scarce knowledge about safe and appropriate antibiotic use is coupled with frequent self-administration, e.g., in China. This repeated self-medication poses potential risk in terms of antibiotic resistance. Low-resource countries are facing an elevated burden of antibiotic self-medication as compared to developed ones. Thus, this study focused on evaluating the pervasiveness of antibiotic sel…
The Effects of Age, Period, and Cohort on Mortality from Ischemic Heart Disease in China
In contrast with most developed countries, mortality due to ischemic heart disease (IHD) continues to rise in China. We examined the effects of age, period, and cohort on IHD mortality in urban and rural populations from 1987 to 2013 to identify the drivers of this trend. Region-specific data on annual IHD mortality among adults aged 20 to 84 years and corresponding population statistics were collected. We then tested for age, period, and cohort …
Summer temperature variability inferred from subfossil chironomid assemblages from the south-east margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau for the last 5000 years
We present a quantitative mean July temperature record spanning the last c. 5000 years from an alpine lake in south-western China. The reconstruction is based on the application of an established chironomid-based inference model using 100 lakes from the region. The reconstructed summer temperature changes are within 2.4°C of modern throughout the record. The results suggest that the summer temperature changes in south-east margin of the Qinghai–T…
A 60-year historical record of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) pollution in lake sediment from Guangxi Province, Southern China
A School-Based Educational Intervention for School-Aged Children and Caregivers about Rational Use of Antibiotics in Urban Areas of Shaanxi Province
(1) Background: Antibiotic resistance is an imperative public health issue globally. Major factors that are resulting in this trend are the irrational and excessive use of antibiotics. Children account for a greater population of antibiotics use, therefore, an educational intervention on the rational use of antibiotics for children and caregivers will be beneficial. (2) Methods: A randomized controlled and parallel group study of fifth grade chil…
Patient Satisfaction with Community Pharmacies Services
Purpose : Patient satisfaction can identify specific areas of improvement in community pharmacy services. Currently in Pakistan, no evidence exists in this regard. This study was conducted to determine the needs of patients and the current standards of pharmacies. Methods : A cross-sectional study was conducted between October 2016 and June 2017. A pilot tested questionnaire was used to collected the data from 1088 patients of 544 community pharm…
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Diabetes in the General Population
Background : Low knowledge about diabetes risk factors coupled with high disease prevalence is common in low-resource countries. This study evaluated diabetes-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the general population in Punjab (Pakistan). Methods : A cross-sectional study was conducted in five districts in Punjab from January to March 2017. Data were collected from 2019 adults aged 18−90 years through face-to-face interviews using a s…
Patients’ Anticipation for the Pharmacies of Rural Communities
Background : Community pharmacies are an integrated part of healthcare systems worldwide. In low and middle income countries like Pakistan, the paradigm of pharmacy practice is shifting from dispensing medicines to clinical activities. There are disparities in these practices according to location. Pharmacies in urban localities are better than those in rural areas. This qualitative study was conducted to explore patients' expectations and curren…
Perspective of Pakistani Physicians towards Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat and the antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) is a globally used tool to combat AMR. There is little information on the views among Pakistani physicians regarding AMR and the benefits of hospital antimicrobial stewardship implementation. This study was designed to explore the physicians' views about ASP. Methods: Qualitative face-to-face and telephonic interviews were conducted by us…
Combining and competing effects between precipitation and temperature on Holocene fire regime evolution inferred from a sedimentary black carbon record in southwestern China
Wildfires are sensitive to climate change, but their response to changes in temperature and precipitation on long timescales is still disputed. In this study, we present a ~9.4 ka black carbon mass sedimentation rate (BCMSR) record from Lake Ximenglongtan (XMLT), southwestern China, to elucidate the Holocene fire regime and its linkages to climatic conditions. The results indicate that the regional fire activity was low during the early Holocene …
City components–area relationship and diversity pattern
Prices, Availability and Affordability of Medicines with Value-Added Tax Exemption
Access to medicines in both sectors was affected by low availability. High prices of OBs influenced the affordability of medicines even with tax exemption. A review of policies and regulations should be initiated for a better access to medicines in the Philippines
Analysis of Antibiotic Use Patterns and Trends Based on Procurement Data of Healthcare Institutions in Shaanxi Province, Western China, 2015–2018
Overuse of antibiotics has caused a series of global problems, especially in the underdeveloped western regions where healthcare systems are fragile. We used antibiotic procurement data of all healthcare institutions to analyze the total amount, patterns and trends of antibiotic use in Shaanxi Province, western China between 2015 and 2018. Antibiotic utilization was quantified using the standard Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC)/Defined daily…
A quantitative temperature reconstruction of the ‘Little Ice Age’ in southern China
We present a branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs)–based mean annual temperature reconstruction covering the last millennium from a subtropical lake in Guangxi Province, southern China (23°N). We demonstrate that the pattern and absolute values of mean annual temperatures reconstructed using the eastern African lake brGDGTs calibration based on the methylation of 5-methyl branched tetraethers index provided the most reliable an…
Identifying the greenhouses by Google Earth Engine to promote the reuse of fragmented land in urban fringe
Depressive State in the Emergency Department During Covid-19
Chinese emergency department (ED) staff encountered significant mental stress while fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We sought to investigate the prevalence and associated factors for depressive symptoms among ED staff (including physicians, nurses, allied health, and auxiliary ED staff). A cross-sectional national survey of ED staff who were on duty and participated in combating the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted March…
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Antibiotics and Its Resistance
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is an emerging global threat to public health. Substantial evidence has indicated that community pharmacists (CPs) can play a critical role in managing the ever-increasing threat of antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practices of CPs ( n = 180) towards antibiotics and antibiotic resistance as well as to improve the rational use of antibiotics. A two-phase mixed-methods (qu…
Impact of Protracted Displacement on Delay in the Diagnosis Associated with Treatment Outcomes
Human displacement is on the rise globally, and the increase in the burden of tuberculosis (TB) is also attributed to migrations worldwide. A significant number of such displacements occur in regions with considerably higher areas of TB burden. Displacements may delay TB diagnosis and treatment, which will possibly lead to TB transmission among healthy individuals. In this study, we assessed the association of existing determinants after a protra…
Trends and Inequalities in the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction among Beijing Townships, 2007–2018
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) poses a serious disease burden in China, but studies on small-area characteristics of AMI incidence are lacking. We therefore examined temporal trends and geographic variations in AMI incidence at the township level in Beijing. In this cross-sectional analysis, 259,830 AMI events during 2007-2018 from the Beijing Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance System were included. We estimated AMI incidence for 307 consiste…
Medicine (23 works) · Geography (14 works) · Family medicine (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · China (11 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Internal Medicine (11 works) · Population (10 works) · Antibiotic Use and Resistance (9 works) · Demography (9 works)