Hepatitis A vaccination during an outbreak among gay men in Montréal, Canada, 1995-1997.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare common health experiences of a South Asian (predominantly Punjabi) population with that of the general population, according to sex, and to related patterns of health in the fourth decade of life to the pattern of hospital admission and mortality documented in the published reports. DESIGN AND SET...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Williams R,Bhopal R,Hunt K

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence from longitudinal studies on the influence of neighbourhood socioeconomic factors in older age on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality is limited. We aimed to investigate the prospective association of neighbourhood-level deprivation in later life with CVD mortality, and assess the underlying role...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ramsay SE,Morris RW,Whincup PH,Subramanian SV,Papacosta AO,Lennon LT,Wannamethee SG

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To report on the development of computer assisted methods for linking medical records and record abstracts. DESIGN:The methods include file blocking, to put records in an order which makes searching efficient; matching, which is the process of comparing records to determine whether they do or do not relate ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Gill L,Goldacre M,Simmons H,Bettley G,Griffith M

更新日期：1993-08-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper aims to assess whether 7-year-olds' physical activity is associated with family and area-level measures of the physical and socioeconomic environments. METHODS:We analysed the association of environments with physical activity in 6497 singleton children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study with re...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pouliou T,Sera F,Griffiths L,Joshi H,Geraci M,Cortina-Borja M,Law C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the short term health effects of improving housing. DESIGN:Randomised to waiting list. SETTING:119 council owned houses in south Devon, UK. PARTICIPANTS:About 480 residents of these houses. INTERVENTION:Upgrading houses (including central heating, ventilation, rewiring, insulation, and re-roofin...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barton A,Basham M,Foy C,Buckingham K,Somerville M,Torbay Healthy Housing Group.

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Northern Ireland has the highest standardised mortality ratios for colon cancer in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has some of the highest mortality rates for cancer in the world. The aim of the study therefore was to investigate trends in colorectal cancer in the north and south of Irela...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kee F,Patterson C,Collins B

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to estimate health and economic consequences of interventions aimed at reducing the daily intake of salt (sodium chloride) by 6 g per person in the Norwegian population. Health promotion (information campaigns), development of new industry food recipes, declaration of salt content in food an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Selmer RM,Kristiansen IS,Haglerod A,Graff-Iversen S,Larsen HK,Meyer HE,Bonaa KH,Thelle DS

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A reduction in sex ratio at live birth has been proposed as a sentinel health indicator that can be used to monitor the health of populations. OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that a lower sex ratio is associated with adverse national population health using the prevalences of HIV and tuberculosis as measur...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Shifotoka A,Fogarty AW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:There is little information on the potential benefit of immunising all patients with chronic lung disease in the community against influenza. The clinical effectiveness and economic benefit was established of the influenza vaccination programme in a general practice based cohort of adult patients with c...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hak E,van Essen GA,Buskens E,Stalman W,de Melker RA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relation between questionnaire answers concerning living conditions during childhood and coronary risk factors in 7405 men and 7247 women. Poverty during childhood was positively associated with age-adjusted levels (p less than 0.05) of total cholesterol and percentage of current smokers (men only) and...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Arnesen E,Forsdahl A

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to explore the relationships between five socioeconomic variables and three main cardiovascular diseases (ischaemic heart disease, hypertensive disease, and cerebrovascular disease) in Hong Kong. DESIGN:This cross sectional study used data from the 1986 by-census and registered death data f...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wong SL,Donnan SP

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:A recent review of the literature identified several common methodological weaknesses in studies of the effects of occupational exposures on male and female reproductive processes. This paper suggests a strategy which addresses these problems, by the use of a standard method. The potential benefits include increased m...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Joffe M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to test a large set of childhood leukaemia and lymphoma registrations for the presence of short radius spacial clusters. DESIGN:The study was a geographical cluster analysis. SETTING:England, Wales and Scotland. PATIENTS:All registrations for leukaemia and lymphoma between 1966 and 1983 i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Knox EG,Gilman E

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011 had a short-term influence on the increase in emergency department visits and hospital admissions due to various diseases. However, it remains unclear whether the earthquake and tsunami disaster affected the long-ter...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sasabuchi Y,Matsui H,Yasunaga H,Fushimi K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies show contradictory findings on the relationship between health and intergenerational living arrangements (ILAs), which may be due to variation in who selects themselves into and out of ILA. Addressing the selectivity into ILA and the health of the older generation, we assess whether there is...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Permyakova NV,Billingsley S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dangerous distortion of priorities seems to be currently apparent in the dominant approaches to major public health problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer and some infectious diseases. Relevant examples suggest an apparently inappropriate tendency to prioritise technocratic, partial so...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Carlos S,de Irala J,Hanley M,Martínez-González MÁ

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:It is not a point of debate that the Stockholm Convention for the prevention of further accumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) should be ratified and implemented by all countries. However, in their article, Schafer and Kegley present an unbalanced "worst case scenario". Approximately 20% of the food supp...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Damstra T,Page SW,Herrman JL,Meredith T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The acceptability of domestic violence against women (DVAW) plays an important part in shaping the social environment in which the victims are embedded, which in turn may contribute either to perpetuate or to reduce the levels of DVAW in our societies. This study analyses correlates of the acceptability...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Gracia E,Herrero J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of migraine and non-migrainous headaches (NMH) was investigated in a community survey in a neighbourhood of western Jerusalem in 1969-71. Diagnoses were based on histories taken by physicians. Prevalence rates among persons aged 15 and over were 10.1% for migraine (including classical migraine, 2.1%) ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Abramson JH,Hopp C,Epstein LM

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1999 a great multi-site clinical trial known as the randomised Aldactone evaluation study (RALES) showed that the use of spironolactone importantly reduced complications attributable to chronic heart failure without major negative side effects. Recently, RALES has been questioned by a large scale observational stud...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Koch E,Otarola A,Kirschbaum A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data from primary care records could potentially provide more comprehensive population-level information on smoking prevalence at lower cost and in a more timely fashion than commissioned national surveys. Therefore, we compared smoking prevalence calculated from a database of primary care electronic medical...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Szatkowski L,Lewis S,McNeill A,Huang Y,Coleman T

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To describe the differences in health behaviours in disparate marital status groups and to estimate the extent to which these can explain differences in health associated with marital status. DESIGN:Baseline data of a prospective cohort study were used. Directly age standardised percentages of each mar...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Joung IM,Stronks K,van de Mheen H,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Examine the association between county occupational structure, services availability, prevalence of risk factors, and coronary mortality rates by sex, for 1980-96, in New York state. DESIGN:New York's 62 counties were classified into three occupational structure categories; counties with the lowest per...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Armstrong DL,Strogatz D,Wang R

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolescent drinking in Western countries has been associated with older age and high socioeconomic status, but the association with family structure was inconsistent. METHODS:In a 2012-2013 school-based survey in Hong Kong, 23,096 students (mean age 14.7 years, SD 1.8 years) completed an anonymous questionn...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Huang R,Ho SY,Wang MP,Lo WS,Lam TH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol policies around the world seek to delay the initiation of drinking. This is partly based on the influential idea that earlier initiation is likely to cause adult alcohol problems. This study synthesises robust evidence for this proposition. METHODS:Systematic review of prospective cohort studies in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Maimaris W,McCambridge J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Even though persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are well-known neurotoxicants, there is no previous study, even cross-sectional, on the association between background exposure to POPs and clinically significant developmental disorders, such as learning disability (LD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD), amo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lee DH,Jacobs DR,Porta M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study provides reliable mortality data by a much wider range of characteristics than are available for other national sources. Although it is based on only a 1% sample of the population, it broadens the scope of mortality analysis and permits study of changes ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fox AJ,Goldblatt PO,Adelstein AM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00