The China Health and Nutrition Survey, 1989-2011

Summary The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) began in 1989 with the goal of creating a multilevel method of data collection from individuals and households and their communities to understand how the wide‐ranging social and economic changes in China affect a wide array of nutrition and healt...

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Published in:Obesity reviews 2014-01, Vol.15 (S1), p.2-7
Main Authors: Zhang, B., Zhai, F. Y., Du, S. F., Popkin, B. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
China
China - epidemiology
Educational Status
Family Characteristics
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Health Surveys
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
longitudinal survey
Male
nutrition
Nutrition Surveys
Nutritional Status
Obesity - epidemiology
Obesity - prevention & control
Prevalence
Preventive Health Services - organization & administration
Public Health
Sex Distribution
Socioeconomic Factors
urbanicity
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Summary:Summary The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) began in 1989 with the goal of creating a multilevel method of data collection from individuals and households and their communities to understand how the wide‐ranging social and economic changes in China affect a wide array of nutrition and health‐related outcomes. Initiated with a partial sample in 1989, the full survey runs from 1991 to 2011, and this issue documents the CHNS history. The CHNS cohort includes new household formation and replacement communities and households; all household members are studied. Furthermore, in‐depth community data are collected. The sample began with eight provinces and added a ninth, Heilongjiang, in 1997 and three autonomous cities, Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing, in 2011. The in‐depth community contextual measures have allowed us to create a unique measure of urbanicity that captures major dimensions of modernization across all 288 communities currently in the CHNS sample. The standardized, validated urbanicity measure captures the changes in 12 dimensions: population density; economic activity; traditional markets; modern markets; transportation infrastructure; sanitation; communications; housing; education; diversity; health infrastructure; and social services. Each is based on numerous measures applicable to each dimension. They are used jointly and separately in hundreds of studies.
ISSN:1467-7881
1467-789X
DOI:10.1111/obr.12119