Survival after initial hospitalisation for heart failure: a multilevel analysis of patients in Swedish acute care hospitals.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In addition to conventional indicators of socioeconomic position, material conditions such as economic difficulties are associated with mental health. However, there has been little investigation of these associations. This study aims to examine the association of current economic difficulties with common me...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Laaksonen E,Martikainen P,Lallukka T,Lahelma E,Ferrie J,Rahkonen O,Marmot M,Head J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To estimate the cost per woman participating in a mammographic screening programme, and to describe methods for measuring costs. DESIGN:Expenditure, resource usage, and throughput were monitored over a 12 month period. Unit costs for each phase of the screening process were estimated and linked with t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hurley SF,Livingston PM,Thane N,Quang L

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:(1) To assess the association between birth weight and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in a cohort of post-menopausal women, (2) to determine the combined effects of birth weight and adult body mass index on CHD, (3) to assess the role of insulin resistance as a mediating factor in the associations. DESIG...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lawlor DA,Davey Smith G,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Injuries have been recognised as important public health concerns, particularly among adolescents and young adults. Few studies have examined injuries using a multilevel perspective that addresses individual socioeconomic status (SES) and health behaviours and local socioeconomic conditions in early adolesce...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Schmidt S,Sparks PJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To develop a self administered Chinese (mainland) version of the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) for use in health related quality of life measurements in China. DESIGN:A three stage protocol was followed including translation, tests of scaling construction and scoring assumptions, validation, and nor...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Li L,Wang HM,Shen Y

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the worldwide population has aged, the number of surgical procedures performed on older patients has increased. It is not known whether this increase has been proportional to growth in the elderly population. The aim of this study was to assess the population-adjusted incidence of acute and elective gener...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Deng C,Mitchell S,Paine SJ,Kerse N

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to estimate the likely burden of cervical cancer in New Zealand over the next two decades, according to whether cervical screening services are made more effective. DESIGN:The study was based on national mortality and incidence data for the periods 1954-87 and 1954-86, respectively. An age-...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cox B,Skegg DC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a smoke free programme implemented at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1996. This programme included a prohibition to smoke in university buildings everywhere except in limited areas, and a smoking cessation counselling service. METHODS:Surve...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Etter JF,Ronchi A,Perneger T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Avoidable Mortality (AM) describes causes of death that should not occur in the presence of high-quality and timely medical treatment and from causes that can be influenced at least in part by public policy/behaviour. This study analyses black-white disparities in AM. METHODS:Mortality under age 65 was anal...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Macinko J,Elo IT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies from the USA and Europe suggest an association between an individual's political ideology and their health status, with those claiming to be conservatives reporting better health. The presence of this association is examined in Japan. METHODS:Individual-level data from the 2000-3, 2005 and 20...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Subramanian SV,Hamano T,Perkins JM,Koyabu A,Fujisawa Y

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis attempts to fill the gap in the epidemiological evidence about the relation between dietary salt and hypertension. Changes in the purchase of salt in England and Wales are compared with changes in mortality from cerebrovascular disease (1958-78). Stroke mortality, a major sequel of hypertension, has decl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cummins RO

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the association between own education, adult and parental circumstances and the risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country. DESIGN:Population based case-control study. SETTING:General population of five districts of the Czech Republic in the age group 25-64 years. PARTICIPANTS:Ran...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bobák M,Hertzman C,Skodová Z,Marmot M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respirator symptoms, and health attitudes was administered to 10 498 secondary schoolchildren in 1975. The results reported in this paper indicate that children who smoke regularly have a higher prevalence of upper respiratory tract infections and a higher incidence of the r...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rawbone RG,Keeling CA,Jenkins A,Guz A

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to estimate the health and social costs of tobacco use in Ontario, Canada. DESIGN:This was a cost-benefit analysis based on cross sectional data in 1988, stratified by age and sex, using an attributable risk model. The total cost of the consequences of tobacco use in the society includ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Choi BC,Pak AW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight hundred and ninety-nine men were studied, aged 16-65 inclusive, who underwent an elective inguinal herniorrhaphy during 1970 and 1971 in eight hospitals in Wessex, and under nine consultant surgeons. There was a significant variation in postoperative inpatient stay and total sickness absence between hospitals an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Griffiths M,Oblin ME,Acheson ED

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Polio Eradication Initiative to eradicate polio completely by the year 2000 has been successful, except for three endemic and some non-endemic countries. Pakistan, one of the three endemic polio reservoirs, is posing a serious threat to the success of the initiative. Currently, the expanded programme on imm...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Khan T,Qazi J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evidence on mortality patterns by education in Spain comes from regional areas. This study aimed to estimate these patterns in the whole Spanish population. METHODS:All citizens aged 25 years and over and residing in Spain in 2001 were followed during 7 years to determine their vital status, resulting i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Reques L,Giráldez-García C,Miqueleiz E,Belza MJ,Regidor E

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To assess the completeness and accuracy of notification of cancers by the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) for England and Wales. DESIGN:Comparison of 720 cancer registrations ascertained from NHSCR up to May 1999 with those ascertained for the same cohort from six other sources and a p...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dickinson HO,Salotti JA,Birch PJ,Reid MM,Malcolm A,Parker L

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess evidence for residential mobility in childhood having an adverse association with health outcomes through the life course. METHODS:A systematic search of medical and social sciences literature was undertaken to identify research defining residential mobility as an independent variable and in which ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jelleyman T,Spencer N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to assess the differences in suicide data obtained from different database sources. DESIGN:Death certificate based data on suicidal deaths were compared with the information obtained from the non-natural death investigation files at the Public Prosecutor's Office. SETTING:The study was con...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： van de Voorde H,Hooft P,Mulkers U

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical students in Nottingham all complete an honours Bachelor of Medical Sciences course in one department including a research project. The honours programme in community health is described, with results from a survey of the 122 graduates since the medical school started. The 98 (80%) responses showed high levels ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Elwood JM,Pearson JC,Madeley RJ,Logan RF,Beaver MW,Gillies PA,Little J,Langham A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESI...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Vu HD,Heller RF,Lim LL,D'Este C,O'Connell RL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of moderate to heavy exposure to alcohol and tobacco on the risk of cancer of the hypopharynx is estimated in a case-control study. All incident hypopharyngeal cancer patients in Denmark who were under 75 years of age were compared with incident cases of laryngeal cancer and population sampled controls. The...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Olsen J,Sabroe S,Ipsen J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the validity of a self administered physical activity questionnaire to be used as part of a screening device for postmenopausal osteopaenia (with additional questions on medical history and calcium intake). DESIGN:A questionnaire was posted to 86 perimenopausal women to enquire about weekl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Suleiman S,Nelson M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality risk is lower in married than in unmarried men and women. However, little is known about the association between mortality and relationship status in South Africa where marriage rates are low, migration is common, many couples are not co-resident and HIV prevalence is high. METHOD:Using demographi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Channon M,Hosegood V,McGrath N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are complex mixtures of persistent contaminants that are widespread in the environment. Newborns are exposed across the placenta and through breast feeding. Experimental animal studies have indicated that PCBs are neurotoxic. The neurological effects of these compounds on chi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ribas-Fitó N,Sala M,Kogevinas M,Sunyer J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ecological perspective on health emphasises both individual and contextual systems and the interdependent relations between the two. Origins of this approach have emanated from multiple disciplines over the past century or more. This article provides a glossary of perspectives, processes, and settings that pertain ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McLaren L,Hawe P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a house-to-house study of 994 urban Zulus the prevalence of hypertension according to WHO criteria was 25% (23% men, 27% women). In a rural Zulu study of 987 the prevalence age corrected to the urban distribution was 9.4% (8.7% men, 10% women). Thus there was a pronounced difference between the prevalence of hypert...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Seedat YK,Seedat MA,Hackland DB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00