Leukaemia clusters in Great Britain. 2. Geographical concentrations.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate associations between measures of neighbourhood social and material environment and self rated health. DESIGN:New contextual measures added to cross sectional study of a sample of people from the Health Survey for England and the Scottish Health Survey to provide multilevel data. PARTICIPANTS...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cummins S,Stafford M,Macintyre S,Marmot M,Ellaway A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate principles, duties and respons...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ruger JP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A promising concept in cardiovascular disease prevention (the polypill) was introduced in 2003. Although the polypill may seem as an effective intervention, data on its costs and cost effectiveness remain unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the maximum price of the polypill for it to be a cost ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Franco OH,Steyerberg EW,de Laet C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examines the contribution of lifetime smoking habit to the socioeconomic gradient in all-cause and smoking-related mortality and in cardiovascular incidence in two countries. METHODS:10,600 men aged 50-59 years were examined in 1991-4 in centres in Northern Ireland and France and followed annuall...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Yarnell JW,Patterson CC,Arveiler D,Amouyel P,Ferrières J,Woodside JV,Haas B,Montaye M,Ruidavets JB,Kee F,Evans A,Bingham A,Ducimetière P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:China has been facing nationwide air pollution at unprecedented high levels primarily from fossil-fuel combustion in the past decade. However, few studies have been conducted on the adverse effect of severe air pollution on lung development in school-age children. METHODS:Using wellness check and air pollut...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wang T,Wang H,Chen J,Wang J,Ren D,Hu W,Wang H,Han W,Leng S,Zhang R,Zheng Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with returning for second round mammography screening. SETTING:This was a population based mammographic screening programme in Melbourne, Australia. DESIGN:A cohort design was used whereby 668 women were interviewed before the screening programme began and attendance for both f...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cockburn J,Schofield P,White V,Hill D,Russell I

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the influence of sleeplessness and number of insomnia symptoms on the probability of recovery from chronic low back pain (LBP), and the possible interplay between sleeplessness and co-occurring musculoskeletal pain on this association. METHODS:The study comprised data on 3712 women and 2488 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Skarpsno ES,Mork PJ,Nilsen TIL,Nordstoga AL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several hypotheses predict that faltering fetal growth is an antecedent for common non-communicable diseases. This is the first systematic review of an emerging literature linking antenatal fetal measurements to postnatal outcomes. METHODS:Electronic databases (OVID, EMBASE and Google Scholar) and cohort st...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Alkandari F,Ellahi A,Aucott L,Devereux G,Turner S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Manitoba's The Need to Know project was presented with a unique opportunity to develop a collaborative approach to evaluation, and to explore the effectiveness of a variety of evaluation methods for assessment of university-community collaborative health research partnerships. OBJECTIVES:The evaluation wa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bowen S,Martens PJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of mortality data in the form of standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to measure the need for health care resources in the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP) formula in England has been criticised for underestimating the wider effects of adverse socioeconomic conditions on need, particularly in inner cit...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mays N,Chinn S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research suggests that first-generation immigrants have a lower suicide risk than those both born in Sweden and with both parents born in Sweden (natives), while the suicide risk in the second generation seems higher. The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent suicide risk in first-gene...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Di Thiene D,Alexanderson K,Tinghög P,La Torre G,Mittendorfer-Rutz E

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study investigated the impact of the Healthy Housing Programme in reducing acute hospitalisations in South Auckland, New Zealand. The programme involved house modifications to reduce overcrowding, insulation and ventilation improvements, and health and social service assessments, referrals and linkages....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jackson G,Thornley S,Woolston J,Papa D,Bernacchi A,Moore T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In epidemiological studies the diagnosis of a past history of myocardial infarction is made from the answer to a single question: "Have you ever had a severe pain across the front of your chest lasting for half an hour or more?" Two additional questions, which form an optional part of the London School of Hygiene and ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Yarnell JW,Sweetnam PM,Baker IA,Bainton D

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty is a way to appreciate the variable vulnerability to declining health status of people as they age. No consensus for measuring frailty has been established. This study aimed to adapt a Frailty Index (FI) to the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and evaluate its applicability in both younger...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kanters DM,Griffith LE,Hogan DB,Richardson J,Patterson C,Raina P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applying research to guide evidence-based practice is an ongoing and significant challenge for public health. Developments in the emerging field of 'translation' have focused on different aspects of the problem, resulting in competing frameworks and terminology. In this paper the scope of 'translation' in public healt...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rychetnik L,Bauman A,Laws R,King L,Rissel C,Nutbeam D,Colagiuri S,Caterson I

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistical analysis combines data with assumptions to yield a quantitative result that is a function of both. One goal of an epidemiological analysis, then, should be to combine data with good assumptions. Unfortunately, a typical quantitative epidemiological analysis combines data with an assumption for which ther...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Maldonado G

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the 'lockdown', may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown and differences across population subgroups. METHODS:Repea...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Niedzwiedz CL,Green MJ,Benzeval M,Campbell D,Craig P,Demou E,Leyland A,Pearce A,Thomson R,Whitley E,Katikireddi SV

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about how diet-related and activity-related amenities relate to residential location behaviour. Understanding these relationships is essential for addressing residential self-selection bias. METHODS:Using 25 years (6 examinations) of data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Ad...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rummo PE,Guilkey DK,Shikany JM,Reis JP,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomised controlled trial intensive individual anti-smoking advice given in parallel with hospital antenatal care did not influence the outcome of pregnancy. The belief that retardation of fetal growth caused by maternal smoking occurs in late pregnancy is not well based, and the advice may not have been given ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Donovan JW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to increased risk of hypertension, a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. How the risk is altered by intergenerational social mobility is not well known. The aim of this study is to investigate parental SES, adult SES and the intergenerational social mo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Högberg L,Cnattingius S,Lundholm C,Sparén P,Iliadou AN

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to audit, against agreed standards, the control of bacterial meningitis, in particular completeness of notification and appropriateness of distribution of chemoprophylaxis to contacts; and to implement appropriate changes and monitor their impact. DESIGN:The first phase involved determinati...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Harvey I,Kaul S,Peters TJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 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:The aim was to examine disease concurrence, using diabetes mellitus as an ullustrative example. DESIGN:The study involved a general practice morbidity survey, conducted over 12 months in 1981-82. All patients who consulted their general practitioners with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (type 1 or typ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fleming DM,Crombie DL,Cross KW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incarceration is simultaneously a public health opportunity and a public health concern. We examined the association between maternal/partner incarceration in the year prior to birth and perinatal smoking. METHODS:We pooled 2006-2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Risk ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dumont DM,Parker DR,Viner-Brown S,Clarke JG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asylum seekers are assumed to be a vulnerable group with respect to sexual and reproductive health. The objective of this study was to quantify induced abortion and teenage birth indicators for this group. METHODS:The population comprised all female asylum seekers aged 15-49 in The Netherlands between Septe...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Goosen S,Uitenbroek D,Wijsen C,Stronks K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Investigate the impact of social, economic, and family circumstances on participation in weekly leisure time exercise. DESIGN:Longitudinal regression analysis of the British household panel survey. PARTICIPANTS:9473 people (4521 men and 4952 women) giving 27,881 person years of responses across eight years...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Popham F,Mitchell R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled trial hypothesising that providing mindfulness courses to university students would promote their resilience to stress ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Galante J,Stochl J,Dufour G,Vainre M,Wagner AP,Jones PB

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore attitudes to quitting smoking and experience of smoking cessation among Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic minority communities. DESIGN:Qualitative study using community participatory methods, purposeful sampling, interviews and focus groups, and a grounded approach to data generation and analysis. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： White M,Bush J,Kai J,Bhopal R,Rankin J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have examined the effects of sample selection on the exposure-outcome association estimates in cohort studies, but the reasons why this selection may induce bias have not been fully explored. AIMS:To investigate how sample selection of the web-based NINFEA birth cohort may change the confoun...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pizzi C,De Stavola BL,Pearce N,Lazzarato F,Ghiotti P,Merletti F,Richiardi L

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00