The book can be used by medical students as a supplementary textbook. It is also of great value as a reference for health professionals and physicians. Multiple copies of this valuable book should also be on the shelves of all universities,medical schools and research establishments where these subjects are studied.

A Brief Introduction

Foreword

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER I China and its peoples

  1.1 Chinese population demographics

  1.2 The Han and the ethnic minorities

  1.3 Geographical characteristics

  1.4 Population size and growth

  1.5 Population age structure

  1.6 Migration

  1.7 Urbanization

  1.8 Marriage patterns

  1.9 Fertility patterns(including the One-Child-Family programme)

  1.10 Maternal mortality

  1.11 Mortality patterns

  1.12 Conclusion

  References

CHAPTER 2 Single gene disorders

  2. 1 Introduction

  2. 2 Amino acid (and/or other) disorders

  2. 3 Hemoglobinopathies

  2.4 The influence of nutritional factors on the expressions of genetic

   disorders

  2. 5 Conclusion

  References

CHAPTER 3 Chromosomal disorders

  3.1 General overview

  3. 2 Down syndrome

  3. 3 Symptoms and comorbidities

  3.4 Etiology

  3. 5 Factors

 3. 6 Treatments and prevention

 3.7 Conclusion

 References

CHAPTER 4 Congenital disorders

 4. 1 Introduction

 4. 2 Congenital heart disease

  4. 3 Neural tube defects

  4.4 Oral and facial clefts

  4. 5 Case study:congenital deafness

  4. 6 Conclusion

  References

CHAPTER 5 Psoriasis and eczema

  5.1 Introduction

  5.2 Epidemiology

  5.3 Etiology and pathogenesis

  5.4 Symptoms

  5.5 Treatments and prevention

  5.6 Eczema

  5.7 Conclusion

  References

CHAPTER 6 Essential epilepsy

  6. I Introduction

  6.2 Symptoms

  6.3 Epidemiology

  6. 4 Etiology

  6.5 Treatment and prevention

  6.6 Conclusion

  References

CHAPTER 7 Behavioral and psychiatric disorders

  7.1 General overview

  7. 2 Case study 1

  7.3 Case study 2

  7.4 Conclusion

  References

CHAPTER 8 Cardiovascular disease

  8. 1 Overview

8. 2 Case study:hypertension

8. 3 Epidemiology

8.4 Cardiovascular disease as the primary cause of death and hyperter

    the main simply treatable risk factor

8. 5 Etiology

8. 6 Treatments and prevention

  References

CHAPTER 9 Epidemiology and risk factors of common cancers

  9. 1 Breast cancer

  9. 2 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

  9.3 Lung cancer

  9. 4 Stomach cancer

  9.5 Colorectal cancer

  9. 6 Liver cancer

  9.7 Case study:esophageal cancer

  References

CHAPTER 10 Dietary deficiency disorders

  10. 1 Overview

  10. 2 Iodine deficiency

  10.3 Symptoms

  10. 4 Etiology

  10. 5 Pathogenesis

  10. 6 Pathology of endemic goiter

  10. 7 Prevention and treatments

  10. 8 Conclusion

  10. 9 Keshan disease

  10. 10 Epidemiology

  10. 11 Pathology

  10 12 Etiology

  10 13 Pathogenesis

  10 14 Clinical and laboratory investigations

  10 15 Diagnosis

  10. 16 Treatment

  References

CHAPTER 11 Environmental toxicity disorders

  11.1 Endemic fluorosis

  11.2 Epidemiology

  11.3 Pathology

  11.4 Symptoms and stages

  11.5 Clinical diagnosis and differential diagnosis

  11.6 Prevention

  11.7 Conclusion

  11.8 Endemic arsenic poisoning

  11.9 Epidemiology

  11.10 Etiology

  11.11 Pathology

  11.12 Pathogenesis

  11.13 Clinical manifestations

  11.14 Clinical diagnosis and differential diagnosis

  11.15 Endemic arsenic poisoning prevention and treatment

  References

CHAPTER 12 Combined deficiency-toxicity disorders

  12.1 Kashin-Beck Disease

  12.2 Symptoms

  12.3 Geographical distribution

  12.4 Population prevalence

  12.5 Family occurrence

  12.6 Etiology

  12.7 Pathology

  12.8 Pathogenesis

  12.9 Prevention and treatment

  12.10 Differential diagnosis

  12.11 Conclusion

 References

CHAPTER 13 Bioethical and legislative restrictions in China

  13.1 Family planning programs

  13.2 Eugenics laws and sex selection

  13.3 Disabled people and moral protection in China

  13.4 Sex ethnic

  13.5 Sexually transmitted diseases

  13.6 Confucian ethics and the market economy

  References