Overview
- Investigates the importance of national, regional and local environmental factors affecting smoking and tobacco control in China
- Documents and reviews the latest research on smoking and tobacco control in China
- Situates smoking trends in China in a broader global context
Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Health Geography (GPHG)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Ross Barnett is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury. He is a senior international consultant for the Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. His research focuses on links between social and physical environments and health, health behaviour and policy making, with a particular focus on smoking and tobacco control.
Dr.Tingzhong Yang is the Director of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University. His research has encouraged “tobacco control advocacy capacity” in medical schools in China. He served as an expert in updating the 2013-2020 version of the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs. Professor Yang's primary academic focus is health behaviour but he also has research interests in tobacco control, mental stress, and obesity.
Dr. Xiaozhao Yousef Yang is a medical sociologist at Sun Yat-sen University. He studies at-risk healthbehaviours and health inequities across changing socioeconomic contexts. His research aims to reach out to policy makers and the public to inform about the fundamental social causes of health problems and their impacts on disadvantaged populations.
Dr Pauline Barnett is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Canterbury. Her research focuses on public health policy and ways in which health services can be designed and managed to benefit the community. She has special interests in primary health care, mental health, disability and ageing.
Dr. Shuhan Jiang is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Management, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University in Hangzhou. She is also a research member in the Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University. Her research interests focus on health behaviour, especially on tobacco use.
Dr. Sihui Peng is an instructor in the School of Medicine at Jinan Universityin Guangzhou and a researcher at the Centre for Tobacco Control, Zhejiang University. Her main research interests are tobacco control, smartphone addiction and uncertainty stress. Her research work underlines the importance of Chinese cultural influences on health behaviour.
Dr Weifang Zhang is a senior health administrator and academic. She is currently Senior Vice President of the Stomatology Hospital, Zhejiang School of Medicine and previously served as the Vice President of the Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang School of Medicine. She has been actively involved in establishing funds for child health and recently became the Principal of the Zhejiang University Women’s Health Foundation. Her research interests focus on social medicine, health care and health policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smoking Environments in China
Book Subtitle: Challenges for Tobacco Control
Editors: Ross Barnett, Tingzhong Yang, Xiaozhao Y. Yang
Series Title: Global Perspectives on Health Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76143-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76142-4Published: 10 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76145-5Published: 11 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76143-1Published: 09 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-8005
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 353
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Geography, Public Health, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Health Economics