Hai Fang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5503553 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hai Fang |
| PRENOMES | Hai |
| SOBRENOME | Fang |
| ASSINATURA | FANG H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0335-1685 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Inequality in preconception care utilization based on the opportunity inequality framework
Background: Despite the universal availability of free preconception care (PCC) in China, substantial disparities in utilization persist. It remains unclear how much of this reflects structural barriers versus individual shortfalls, and clarifying this balance is critical for designing equitable, accountable maternal health policy. Methods: We conducted a multi-center cross-sectional survey across ten medical facilities in China from July 1, 2023…
Global, regional, and national disease burden and economic costs of cervical cancer (1991–2021)
Objectives: Cervical cancer remains a significant global health concern, particularly in less developed regions. This study aims to assess the global, regional, and national burden of cervical cancer from 1991 to 2021. Methods: This study synthesizes data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2021, WHO health expenditure databases, and published cost estimates to comprehensively assess the epidemiological and economic burden of cervical c…
Primary care functional features and their health impact on patients enrolled in the Shanghai family doctor service
Background: While research in multiple countries confirms that primary care functional features significantly improve patient health, China's primary care system differs markedly due to unique structural and contextual factors. This study aims to measure and explore the functional features experienced by patients received family doctor contract service in the past year, evaluating the impacts and pathways of these primary care features on health …
Effect of traditional Chinese medicine on metabolism disturbance in ischemic heart diseases
Research on the influence of patient cost-sharing on medical expenses and health outcomes
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the changes in patient cost-sharing on the medical expenses and health outcomes of patients with heart failure in China. Methods: The claim data of patients diagnosed with heart failure enrolled in the Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI) in the Zhejiang province, China, was used, covering the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2017. The impact of the policy chan…
Vaccine pricing strategies in China
Better adherence to childhood Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination with combination vaccines compared to single-antigen vaccines
Background: The coverage of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccination remains suboptimal in China, and this study aimed to investigate the influencing factors of caregivers' Hib-containing vaccine choices and the association between combination vaccine use and adherence to Hib immunisation schedule among Chinese children. Methods: From August to October 2019, a cross-sectional survey was conducted in 148 community health care centres from t…
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a group-based intervention to improve social-emotional development of young children in poverty-stricken areas
Background: Social-emotional ability is key to the well-being and future success of children; however, disparities in social-emotional development during an individual's early age can last a lifetime, which is particularly evident among children living in poverty-stricken areas. We aimed to determine the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and feasibility of a group-based intervention called the Care Group on social-emotional development for famil…
Association between Health-Related Quality of Life and Access to Chronic Disease Management by Primary Care Facilities in Mainland China
The integration of chronic disease management (CDM) services into the essential public health services offered by primary care facilities has been a major strategy in China's healthcare reform since 2009. We aimed to measure the percentage of patients with chronic diseases in China who believed that they could easily obtain CDM services at a nearby primary care facility in mainland China and determine its association with the EQ visual analog sca…
Maternal choices and preferences for screening strategies of gestational diabetes mellitus
Aims: This study aimed to investigate maternal preferences for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) screening options in rural China to identify an optimal GDM screening strategy. Methods: Pregnant women at 24-28 gestational weeks were recruited from Shandong province, China. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted to elicit pregnant women's preferences for GDM screening strategy defined by five attributes: number of blood draws, out-of-p…
The Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccination Under Different Methods of Investigation
As Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines became available in December 2020, increasingly more surveys were organized to examine the acceptance of vaccination, while most of them were conducted online. This study aimed to explore the difference between online and traditional on-site surveys in terms of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. From November to December 2020, an online survey ( n = 2013) and an on-site survey ( n = 4,316) were conducted …
The Economic Burden of Influenza-Like Illness among Children, Chronic Disease Patients, and the Elderly in China
Background: The disease burden of seasonal influenza is substantial in China, while there is still a lack of nationwide economic burden estimates. This study aims to examine influenza-like illness (ILI) prevalence, healthcare-seeking behaviors, economic impact of ILI, and its influencing factors among three priority groups during the 2018-19 influenza season. Methods: From August to October 2019, 6668 children's caregivers, 1735 chronic disease p…
Exposure to Chinese famine in early life and the risk of sensory impairment in adulthood
Background Studies have shown that malnutrition in early life has a negative effect on midlife cognitive functions. Little is known, however, about the relationship between early-life malnutrition and visual, hearing or dual sensory impairments in adulthood. This study aims to investigate the association between exposure to the 1959–1961 Chinese famine in early life and sensory impairments in adulthood. Methods A total of 6347 adults born between…
Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccination during the Covid-19 Pandemic in China
Background: Faced with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the development of COVID-19 vaccines has been progressing at an unprecedented rate. This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination in China and give suggestions for vaccination strategies and immunization programs accordingly. Methods: In March 2020, an anonymous cross-sectional survey was conducted online among Chinese adults. The questionnaire collecte…
How Can One Strengthen a Tiered Healthcare System through Health System Reform? Lessons Learnt from Beijing, China
How one can reshape the current healthcare sector into a tiered healthcare system with clarified division of functions between primary care facilities and hospitals, and improve the utilization of primary care, is a worldwide problem, especially for the low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper aimed to evaluate the impact of the Beijing Reform on healthcare-seeking behavior and tried to explain the mechanism of the change of patient fl…
Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Hospitals in Beijing, China
Objective: With the participation of private hospitals in the health system, improving hospital efficiency becomes more important. This study aimed to evaluate the technical efficiency of public and private hospitals in Beijing, China, and analyze the influencing factors of hospitals' technical efficiency, and thus provide policy implications to improve the efficiency of public and private hospitals. Method: This study used a data set of 154-232 …
The Effect of Childhood Health Status on Adult Health in China
Childhood health in China was poor in the 1950s and 1960s because of limited nutrition. In the last three decades, China has distinguished itself through its tremendous economic growth and improvements in health and nutrition. However, prior to such growth, access to good nutrition was more variable, with potentially important implications, not only for childhood health, but also for adult health, because of its long-term effects lasting into adu…
Changes in Smoking Behaviors following Exposure to Health Shocks in China
Background : Evidence suggests that following major individual health shocks, smokers change their smoking behaviors. However, little is known about the association between spousal health shocks and smoking. This study examined the contemporaneous and long-term effects of individual and spousal health shocks on males' smoking behaviors in China. Methods : This study employed a nation-wide data base from the 1991−2011 China Health and Nutrition St…
Does Migration Limit the Effect of Health Insurance on Hypertension Management in China
Background: In China, rapid urbanization has caused migration from rural to urban areas, and raised the prevalence of hypertension. However, public health insurance is not portable from one place to another, and migration may limit the effectiveness of this non-portable health insurance on healthcare. Our study aims to investigate whether migration limits the effectiveness of health insurance on hypertension management in China. Methods: Data wer…
Strengthening health system to improve immunization for migrants in China
Economic development led to higher migrant population in China, but immunization for migrants, particularly migrant children, were poor. Fortunately various health system strengthening strategies were employed to improve immunization for migrants in China and they were rather successful. The experiences and lessons of immunization for migrant population in China might be helpful for other developing countries with a large number of migrant popula…
Financing strategies to improve essential public health equalization and its effects in China
The delivery of essential public health services was highly influenced by public fiscal policy, and the implementation of health reform since 2009 has led the public health development towards the right direction. However China still needs to increase the fiscal investments to expand service coverage as well as promote the quality of public health services and equality among regions. Independent scientific monitoring and evaluation are also neede…
Consolidating the social health insurance schemes in China
Urban-rural disparities in child nutrition-related health outcomes in China
The hukou system exacerbates urban-rural disparities in child nutrition-related health outcomes independent of the well-known disparity stemming from urban-rural residence. Fortunately, however, child health disparities due to hukou have been declining since 2000
Urban–rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006
Physician-patient Language Concordance and Malpractice Concerns
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between physician-patient language concordance and physicians' malpractice concerns. METHOD: We use a nationally representative physician data set, the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey maintained by the Center for Studying Health System Change. The Health Tracking Physician Survey includes 5 assessments of physicians' concerns about malpractice risk. Physicians are also asked the percentage of patients the…
Exposure to Chinese famine in early life and the risk of sensory impairment in adulthood
Background Studies have shown that malnutrition in early life has a negative effect on midlife cognitive functions. Little is known, however, about the relationship between early-life malnutrition and visual, hearing or dual sensory impairments in adulthood. This study aims to investigate the association between exposure to the 1959–1961 Chinese famine in early life and sensory impairments in adulthood. Methods A total of 6347 adults born between…
Health Care Access, Use of Services, and Experiences Among Undocumented Mexicans and Other Latinos
BACKGROUND: We compared access to health care, use of services, and health care experiences for Mexicans and other Latinos by citizenship and immigrant authorization status. METHODS: We acquired data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey, with 42,044 participants representative of noninstitutionalized households. Participants were differentiated by ethnicity/race, national origin, and citizenship/immigration authorization status. Outco…
Does smoking affect body weight and obesity in China
Access to and Utilization of Health Care by Subgroups of Latino Children
BACKGROUND: Latinos make up the largest group of minority children in the United States. Despite great diversity among Latino children, studies have traditionally treated them as a monolithic group. Few studies have examined patterns and determinants of access to and use of health care for different subgroups of Latino children. OBJECTIVES: To delineate differences in access and utilization patterns between white and subgroups of Latino children,…
Explaining Urban-Rural Health Disparities in China
BACKGROUND: Given strict residency controls and geographic imbalances in health care resources, China may experience serious urban-rural health disparities. OBJECTIVES: To investigate urban-rural disparities in the patterns of health status and health care utilization in China and to examine the evolution of these disparities from 1997 to 2006. SUBJECTS: This study uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 1997-2006 with a sample of 27…
The cost of crime to society
Variations in Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Mexican Immigrants
The objective of this study is to identify differences in healthcare access and utilization among Mexican immigrants by documentation status. Cross-sectional survey data are analyzed to identify differences in healthcare access and utilization across Mexican immigrant categories. Multivariable logistic regression and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition are used to parse out differences into observed and unobserved components. Mexican immigrants ages…
Physician-patient Language Concordance and Malpractice Concerns
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between physician-patient language concordance and physicians' malpractice concerns. METHOD: We use a nationally representative physician data set, the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey maintained by the Center for Studying Health System Change. The Health Tracking Physician Survey includes 5 assessments of physicians' concerns about malpractice risk. Physicians are also asked the percentage of patients the…
Urban–rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006
Consolidating the social health insurance schemes in China
Urban-rural disparities in child nutrition-related health outcomes in China
The hukou system exacerbates urban-rural disparities in child nutrition-related health outcomes independent of the well-known disparity stemming from urban-rural residence. Fortunately, however, child health disparities due to hukou have been declining since 2000
Financing strategies to improve essential public health equalization and its effects in China
The delivery of essential public health services was highly influenced by public fiscal policy, and the implementation of health reform since 2009 has led the public health development towards the right direction. However China still needs to increase the fiscal investments to expand service coverage as well as promote the quality of public health services and equality among regions. Independent scientific monitoring and evaluation are also neede…
Does Migration Limit the Effect of Health Insurance on Hypertension Management in China
Background: In China, rapid urbanization has caused migration from rural to urban areas, and raised the prevalence of hypertension. However, public health insurance is not portable from one place to another, and migration may limit the effectiveness of this non-portable health insurance on healthcare. Our study aims to investigate whether migration limits the effectiveness of health insurance on hypertension management in China. Methods: Data wer…
Strengthening health system to improve immunization for migrants in China
Economic development led to higher migrant population in China, but immunization for migrants, particularly migrant children, were poor. Fortunately various health system strengthening strategies were employed to improve immunization for migrants in China and they were rather successful. The experiences and lessons of immunization for migrant population in China might be helpful for other developing countries with a large number of migrant popula…
The Effect of Childhood Health Status on Adult Health in China
Childhood health in China was poor in the 1950s and 1960s because of limited nutrition. In the last three decades, China has distinguished itself through its tremendous economic growth and improvements in health and nutrition. However, prior to such growth, access to good nutrition was more variable, with potentially important implications, not only for childhood health, but also for adult health, because of its long-term effects lasting into adu…
Changes in Smoking Behaviors following Exposure to Health Shocks in China
Background : Evidence suggests that following major individual health shocks, smokers change their smoking behaviors. However, little is known about the association between spousal health shocks and smoking. This study examined the contemporaneous and long-term effects of individual and spousal health shocks on males' smoking behaviors in China. Methods : This study employed a nation-wide data base from the 1991−2011 China Health and Nutrition St…
Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Hospitals in Beijing, China
Objective: With the participation of private hospitals in the health system, improving hospital efficiency becomes more important. This study aimed to evaluate the technical efficiency of public and private hospitals in Beijing, China, and analyze the influencing factors of hospitals' technical efficiency, and thus provide policy implications to improve the efficiency of public and private hospitals. Method: This study used a data set of 154-232 …
Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccination during the Covid-19 Pandemic in China
Background: Faced with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the development of COVID-19 vaccines has been progressing at an unprecedented rate. This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination in China and give suggestions for vaccination strategies and immunization programs accordingly. Methods: In March 2020, an anonymous cross-sectional survey was conducted online among Chinese adults. The questionnaire collecte…
How Can One Strengthen a Tiered Healthcare System through Health System Reform? Lessons Learnt from Beijing, China
How one can reshape the current healthcare sector into a tiered healthcare system with clarified division of functions between primary care facilities and hospitals, and improve the utilization of primary care, is a worldwide problem, especially for the low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper aimed to evaluate the impact of the Beijing Reform on healthcare-seeking behavior and tried to explain the mechanism of the change of patient fl…
The Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccination Under Different Methods of Investigation
As Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines became available in December 2020, increasingly more surveys were organized to examine the acceptance of vaccination, while most of them were conducted online. This study aimed to explore the difference between online and traditional on-site surveys in terms of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. From November to December 2020, an online survey ( n = 2013) and an on-site survey ( n = 4,316) were conducted …
The Economic Burden of Influenza-Like Illness among Children, Chronic Disease Patients, and the Elderly in China
Background: The disease burden of seasonal influenza is substantial in China, while there is still a lack of nationwide economic burden estimates. This study aims to examine influenza-like illness (ILI) prevalence, healthcare-seeking behaviors, economic impact of ILI, and its influencing factors among three priority groups during the 2018-19 influenza season. Methods: From August to October 2019, 6668 children's caregivers, 1735 chronic disease p…
Exposure to Chinese famine in early life and the risk of sensory impairment in adulthood
Background Studies have shown that malnutrition in early life has a negative effect on midlife cognitive functions. Little is known, however, about the relationship between early-life malnutrition and visual, hearing or dual sensory impairments in adulthood. This study aims to investigate the association between exposure to the 1959–1961 Chinese famine in early life and sensory impairments in adulthood. Methods A total of 6347 adults born between…
Maternal choices and preferences for screening strategies of gestational diabetes mellitus
Aims: This study aimed to investigate maternal preferences for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) screening options in rural China to identify an optimal GDM screening strategy. Methods: Pregnant women at 24-28 gestational weeks were recruited from Shandong province, China. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted to elicit pregnant women's preferences for GDM screening strategy defined by five attributes: number of blood draws, out-of-p…
Research on the influence of patient cost-sharing on medical expenses and health outcomes
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the changes in patient cost-sharing on the medical expenses and health outcomes of patients with heart failure in China. Methods: The claim data of patients diagnosed with heart failure enrolled in the Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI) in the Zhejiang province, China, was used, covering the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2017. The impact of the policy chan…
Vaccine pricing strategies in China
Better adherence to childhood Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination with combination vaccines compared to single-antigen vaccines
Background: The coverage of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccination remains suboptimal in China, and this study aimed to investigate the influencing factors of caregivers' Hib-containing vaccine choices and the association between combination vaccine use and adherence to Hib immunisation schedule among Chinese children. Methods: From August to October 2019, a cross-sectional survey was conducted in 148 community health care centres from t…
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