The rapid social change in China is seeing a raft of problems associated with Health Risk Behaviours. There have been several papers on HIV rates and the Lancet have just published a paper on syphillis.
bbc report here
Added to the this, the gender ratio is making life difficult for Chinese bachelors.
bbc report here
Im sure the above will probably generate some joky editorials but if ever a country was a good case study for the new well-being literature it is China. Huge growth, coupled with major social change and barriers to forming relationships.
John Knight, whose earlier paper on South Africa I posted has written a paper on some of this that is worth looking at
here
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Hmm, John Knight, forming couples, China...Remind me to tell you something folks, but not here!
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