Studying seasonality by using sine and cosine functions in regression analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined whether higher effort-reward imbalance (ERI) and lower job control are associated with exit from the labour market. METHODS:There were 1263 participants aged 50-74 years from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing with data on working status and work-related psychosocial factors at baseline (w...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hintsa T,Kouvonen A,McCann M,Jokela M,Elovainio M,Demakakos P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate an intervention designed to curtail an outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men, especially the young and sexually active, by promoting their free vaccination. DESIGN:The study analysed routine passive surveillance data, carried out questionnaire and serological surveys of vaccinees, and surve...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Allard R,Beauchemin J,Bédard L,Dion R,Tremblay M,Carsley J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Road traffic casualties show some of the widest socioeconomic differentials of any cause of morbidity or mortality, and as yet there is little evidence on what works to reduce them. This study quantified the current and potential future impact of the introduction of 20 mph zones on socioeconomic inequalities...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Steinbach R,Grundy C,Edwards P,Wilkinson P,Green J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although working smoke alarms halve deaths in residential fires, many households do not keep alarms operational. We tested whether theory-based education increases alarm operability. METHODS:Randomised multiarm trial, with a single arm randomly selected for use each day, in low-income neighbourhoods in Mary...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Miller TR,Bergen G,Ballesteros MF,Bhattacharya S,Gielen AC,Sheppard MS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of extreme temperatures. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between extreme temperatures and paediatric emergency department admissions (EDAs) in Brisbane, Australia, during 2003-2009. METHODS:A quasi-Poisson generalised linear model combined with a di...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Xu Z,Hu W,Su H,Turner LR,Ye X,Wang J,Tong S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the United Kingdom on childhood leukaemia and childhood cancer in twins and from the United States on leukaemia in twins are analysed by a new method. The method distinguishes determinants occurring before the stage of pregnancy corresponding with the cleavage of MZ pairs, from determinants occurring after t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Knox EG,Marshall T,Barling R

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the extent to which poorer self assessed health in men in whom an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is detected at screening is a consequence or a predictor of screening outcome. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Community based screening. PARTICIPANTS:23 654 men who attended for AAA screeni...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Marteau TM,Kim LG,Upton J,Thompson SG,Scott AP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study whether women having had caesarean sections (index women) have more subsequent health problems, measured by hospital admissions, than women having had vaginal deliveries (control women). DESIGN:The study involved comparison of hospital admissions before (2-5 years) and after (7-10 years)...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hemminki E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To clarify concepts and methodological problems in existing multidimensional health status measures for children. DESIGN:Thematic review of instruments found by computerised and manual searches, 1979-95. SUBJECTS:Nine health status instruments. MAIN RESULTS:Many instruments did not satisfy criteria o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pal DK

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier investigations have shown mortality effects of community socio-economic resources. However, the sex differences have not been clear, and the estimates may well have been biased because of inadequate control for community factors affecting both the socio-economic resources and mortality. The objective...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kravdal O

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of a community based bicycle helmet programme aimed at children aged 5-12 years (about 140,000) from poor and well off municipalities. METHODS:A quasi-experimental design, including a control group, was used. Changes in the risk of bicycle related head injuries leading to hospitalisatio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Farley C,Laflamme L,Vaez M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses working in selected departments of general hospitals in Finland were collected from a central register on health personnel in Finland. Using the Hospital Discharge Register and the Register of Congenital Malformations, case nurses were selected who had had a spontaneous abortion (N = 217) or a malformed child (...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hemminki K,Kyyrönen P,Lindbohm ML

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 150 hotel prostitutes in Lagos was undertaken to determine their socioeconomic identity and, through an assessment of their health knowledge, attitude, and practice, their probable impact on public health. The subjects were selected from 15 hotels, representing 20% of the estimated hotel universe in Lagos a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Oleru UG

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neighbourhood resources may preserve functional independence in older adults, but little is known about whether benefits differ for individuals with normal and impaired memory. We evaluated the extent to which neighbourhood context was related to onset of instrumental and basic activities of daily living (I/...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nguyen TT,Rist PM,Glymour MM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. DESIGN:Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in three time periods: 1990-1991, before the recession; 1993, worst slump during the recession; and 1993-1997, a period after change...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Vahtera J,Kivimäki M,Pentti J,Theorell T

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that birth weight is positively associated with education, but it remains unclear whether this association is explained by familial environmental factors, genetic factors or the intrauterine environment. We analysed the association between birth weight and educational years within twin pair...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jelenkovic A,Mikkonen J,Martikainen P,Latvala A,Yokoyama Y,Sund R,Vuoksimaa E,Rebato E,Sung J,Kim J,Lee J,Lee S,Stazi MA,Fagnani C,Brescianini S,Derom CA,Vlietinck RF,Loos RJF,Krueger RF,McGue M,Pahlen S,Nelson

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic differences in health are a major challenge for public health. However, realistic estimates to what extent they are modifiable are scarce. This problem can be met through the systematic application of the population attributable fraction (PAF) to socioeconomic health inequalities. METHODS:The ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hoffmann R,Eikemo TA,Kulhánová I,Dahl E,Deboosere P,Dzúrová D,van Oyen H,Rychtaríková J,Strand BH,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV incidence estimates are crucial in understanding and predicting the HIV/AIDS epidemic and identifying sub-populations and regions most at risk for the epidemic. However, incidence estimation is a challenge due to the nature of the disease and type of data available. This paper aims to present a simple an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rajan SS,Sokal D

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the use of deprivation indices in relation to health. DESIGN:This paper reviews selected publications which illustrate the diversity of use of deprivation indices in the past decade. Most of this work is based in the major routine databases which exist in this country: the census, population...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Carstairs V

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effects of neighbourhood level socioeconomic status (SES) and convenience store concentration on individual level smoking, after consideration of individual level characteristics. DESIGN:Individual sociodemographic characteristics and smoking were obtained from five cross sectional surveys (19...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chuang YC,Cubbin C,Ahn D,Winkleby MA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of self-reported health (SRH) with the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, life stress, and sociobehavioural factors in adults aged 55 and over. DESIGN:Secondary analysis of data from the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS) in Taiwan in 2000, comprising 1023 individu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Zhang F,Lewis M,Yang G,Iriondo-Perez J,Zeng Y,Liu J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Active ageing is a key to healthy ageing; shopping behaviour is an economically relevant activity of the elderly. METHODS:Analysis was based on the NAHSIT 1999-2000 dataset. A total of 1841 representative free-living elderly Taiwanese people were selected and information included demographics, socioeconomic...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chang YH,Chen RC,Wahlqvist ML,Lee MS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the characteristics of elderly populations associated with variations in their use of community health and personal social services and to test the hypotheses that the variations are related to: (a) the age structure of an elderly population; (b) the population's socioeconomic composition...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Warnes AM,Armstrong GK,Peters D

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aims of this study are to generalise the concept of gap length between partners and to estimate the duration of four types of measures for heterosexual partnerships, called status lengths: (1) time spent as single before becoming monogamous (S-M, positive gap), (2) duration of concurrency before monogamy...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Castillo-Guajardo D,García-Ramos G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to identify any social class differences in health and care in the year before death emerging from a wider study of life before death. DESIGN AND SETTING:Data were collected at interviews, mainly of close relatives, with those who knew most about the people's lives in the year before they d...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cartwright A

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immigrants are sometimes found to have better health than locally born populations. We examined the mortality experience of South Asian origin and white European origin individuals living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. METHODS:A linked 17-21 year mortality follow-up of a cross-sectional study of European (n=82...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hayes L,White M,McNally RJQ,Unwin N,Tran A,Bhopal R

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Health inequalities can be observed in early life as unfavourable birth outcomes. Evidence indicates that neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances influence health. However, studies looking into temporal trends in inequalities in birth outcomes including neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions are scarce. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bertens LCM,Burgos Ochoa L,Van Ourti T,Steegers EAP,Been JV

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The adverse health and environmental effects of poor housing quality are well established. A central requirement for evidence-based policies and programmes to improve housing standards is a valid, reliable and practical way of measuring housing quality that is supported by policy agencies, the housing sector...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Keall M,Baker MG,Howden-Chapman P,Cunningham M,Ormandy D

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates declined in Europe between 2004 and 2010. We hypothesised that declines might be greater for countries with higher mortality in 2004 and disproportionally affect very preterm infants at highest risk. METHODS:Data about live births, stillbirths and neonatal deaths by g...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Zeitlin J,Mortensen L,Cuttini M,Lack N,Nijhuis J,Haidinger G,Blondel B,Hindori-Mohangoo AD,Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee.

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol misuse, especially binge drinking in young people, and alcoholic liver disease are major public health concerns. However, alcohol misuse in older people is underestimated and often goes undetected. OBJECTIVE:To document alcohol consumption and clinical presentation of alcohol misuse in hospital inpa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mehta MM,Moriarty KJ,Proctor D,Bird M,Darling W

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00