China&#39;s rise in wealth brings fall in health
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China&#39;s economic transformation is damaging the health of many of its people, with millions of urban professionals suffering from stress and the change to more fatty western diets.
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ATLANTA - A new study has found that 15 medical conditions accounted for about half of the US$200 billion (S$342 billion) rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million people in the 10 years to 2002 with diseases related to an unhealthy diet and lifestyle also on the rise, the government said.
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Since the Chinese government made pre-marriage medical check-ups optional, the number of birth defects has risen, government officials said.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's blistering economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.
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Income inequality is near record levels in many countries, and the worldÂs wealth has become even more narrowly concentrated than income.
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China&#39;s spending on fixed assets such  as roads and power plants accelerated in the first five months  of the year, prompting predictions of imminent monetary  tightening to slow the world&#39;s fourth-largest economy.
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The politically sensitive gap in incomes between China's booming cities and the poor countryside is widening
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As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation.
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Despite significant gains in medical science, disparities in public health persist between rich and poor countries, the World Health Organization said in a report released here on Wednesday.
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods, as well as the beginning of Chinaâs rise from the lowest rungs of global manufacturing.
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China's more than 700 million farmers are happier than before despite a growing wealth gap, while poor urban residents are being squeezed by rising food and property prices, a top government think tank said on Thursday.
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China&#39;s population, already the largest in the world, will peak at 1.46 billion in 30 years, straining the country&#39;s healthcare system, putting pressure on jobs, and gobbling up a greater share of the world&#39;s food and energy resources.
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China&#39;s hike in interest rates was a double-edged sword for many investors and economists. At one level, it suggested that Chinese growth is
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The gap between rich and poor has widened sharply in China and other Asian countries, research suggests.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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The number of strokes caused by brain blood clots rose by almost 9 percent each year in Beijing in the two decades to 2004, researchers say, blaming the trend on economic prosperity and lifestyle changes.