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IJE Advance Access published online on November 3, 2009
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyp322
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Cohort Profile: The China Health and Nutrition Survey—monitoring and understanding socio-economic and health change in China, 1989–2011

Barry M Popkin1,*, Shufa Du1, Fengying Zhai2 and Bing Zhang2

1Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
2National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.

* Corresponding author. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, 123 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA. E-mail: popkin@unc.edu

Accepted 24 September 2009

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   How did the study come about?
 
This study began with the desire of the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill (CH) Principal Investigator (PI) to be able to examine across space and time the ways economic and social change affected a range of health behaviours in a large country. China was selected because of its unique opening up of its economic and social system. In 1986 no longitudinal surveys existed in China and all surveys were either very narrow health, economic or demographic surveys. Furthermore, no raw data from any survey had been allowed out of the country. Since China's reform and open policy, the country was being transformed from one facing famine and extreme food shortages to one where the food supply addressed basic needs and the initial states of a major transformation of the food distribution and marketing system was occurring. With this as background, two UNC faculty members, Barry Popkin and Gail . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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