Lancet
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The so-called selective two-child policy was introduced on December, 27, 2015 in China to allow Chinese couples nationwide to have up to two children if either parent is an only child. This study aims to explore Chinese women's intention to have a second child. ⋯ Medjaden Academy & Research Foundation for Young Scientists (Grant No. MJR20150047) and Summer Social Practice Project of School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University.
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Breastfeeding is the gold standard for infant and young child feeding. Increased rates of breastfeeding could reduce morbidity and mortality for both children and mothers. In addition, breastfed children could have better cognitive development, persisting through later life. However, quantitative data are scarce on the effect of improved breastfeeding rates in China. The objectives of this study were to assess current breastfeeding rates and to analyse the potential effect of improved breastfeeding rates in China. ⋯ Chinese Central Government.
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China aims to eliminate malaria by 2020. In 2012, China launched its 1-3-7 malaria surveillance strategy, which refers to case reporting within one day, case investigation within three days, and focus investigation and public health actions within seven days. The aim of this study was to identify operational challenges to the 1-3-7 surveillance strategy. ⋯ Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20150001), and Jiangsu Science and Technology Department (BM2015024).
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Both ketamine and methamphetamine have been used for studying the positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms, and dopaminergic and GABAergic dysfunction observed in acute schizophrenia. We aimed to explore and compare the prevalence and factor structure of psychotic symptoms in chronic ketamine and methamphetamine users. ⋯ Natural Science Foundation of China (81100996 to YL, and 81371480 to JT). The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding authors had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
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Recent studies on MRI-based discrimination of schizophrenia have shown promise. Considering that, in general, pathological changes should display characteristic markers in both brain function and anatomy, machine-learning methods using multimodal MRI features of brain networks might provide a deeper insight into the pathological mechanism of schizophrenia. We aimed to assess the discriminative power of multimodal MRI features and to extract these features of high discriminative information for classification of patients with schizophrenia. ⋯ National Natural Science Foundation of China (81401473). Data collection by the Mind Research Network was funded by a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant (5P20RR021938/P20GM103472) from the National Institutes of Health.