ArticleFrontiers in sociology2026
The line is drawn, the fate is cast: urban-rural inequalities in the timing of initial health check-ups in China.
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- Proactive Screening Beliefs in Chinese High-Risk Patients of Panvascular Disease from the Perspective of Health Belief Model: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Introduction: Despite sustained advances in medical innovation and expanded access to healthcare services, inequalities in the uptake of health check-ups persist, pointing to enduring mechanisms in the reproduction of health inequalities. Although Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) has been widely used to examine such inequalities, it has largely been operationalized at the individual level, with limited attention to institutional arrangements and insufficient consideration of how mechanisms of inequality shift over time. Methods: Drawing on the 2014 life history data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this research employs accelerated failure time (AFT) models to assess how China's Results: The results indicate that urban Discussion: This research reveals a dynamic substitution of mechanisms through which health inequalities are reproduced, highlighting the enduring institutional influence of the
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