What is already known about this topic?

Occupational stress and workplace health have become issues of significant concern for both employees and employers. The workers from electronic manufacturing services (EMS) industry in China are exposed to increasing occupational hazards and injuries. Despite the fact that it is a known health risk for psychological and medical disorders, only few studies have investigate the prevalence of occupational stress and risk factors among EMS workers.

What is added by this report?

Analysis of data from the EMS industry of Occupational Stress Surveillance Program with a sample of 21,362 participants from 20 EMS companies. Results show that the prevalence of high strain and effort-reward imbalance were 19.5% and 15.8%, respectively, which are significantly differed by selected socio-demographic and job characteristics. Participants who are migrant, or working in the assembly-line position or in shift are exposed to higher stress level.

What are the implications for public health practice?

EMS workers are liable to be at risk for occupational stress and for developing psychological disorders and diseases. The findings of this study contribute to an evidence-base which inform the development and implementation of strategies aimed at reducing occupational stress of EMS workers should be at organizational and individual level.

What is already known about this topic?

The monitoring report on nutrition and health status of Chinese residents from 2010 to 2013 reported that the participation rate of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) was 13.8% among those 6 years and older.

What is added by this report?

Among 18 years old and older, the age-standardized LTPA prevalence increased from 7.13% in 2000 to 11.79% in 2011 before dropping to 7.33% in 2015.

What are the implications for public health practice?

As levels of LTPA participation are low, further research is necessary to develop and test valid interventions to encourage people to take part in more LTPA especially for residents in rural areas and with low-income.

In the past 30 years, the prevalence of diabetes in China has been increasing, but the awareness rate, treatment rate and control rate of diabetes are relatively low, and the death rate, disability rate, disease burden of diabetes and its complications are constantly increasing, which brings heavy burden to individuals, families and social economy. The Healthy China Initiative (2019–2030) is a roadmap to a healthy China and an innovative public policy system project. The Diabetes Prevention and Control Action is one of the four chronic and noncommunicable diseases prevention and control actions in the Healthy China Initiative (2019–2030).

Based on the background, basic principles and key contents of diabetes prevention and control, this paper interpreted the diabetes prevention and control action from five aspects, that is, healthy lifestyle is the foundation, which emphasized that individuals are the first responsibility for their health, and advocates reducing the risk of diabetes by practicing healthy diet, increasing physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight; Early detection and early intervention are key links, which emphasized to pay attention to individual blood glucose level, high risk individuals regularly test blood glucose; Standardize health management is the priority, which emphasized to strengthen the implementation of graded diagnosis and treatment standards, and medical institutions provide guidance on self-management of health for patients with diabetes; The improvement of capacity in primary level is the guarantee, where emphasis is placed on improving the ability of medical personnel to screen, intervention and standardize diagnosis and treatment; And innovative health service models are the key measures which emphasized the use of information technology to improve the efficiency of health management.