External validation, repeat determination, and precision of risk estimation in misclassified exposure data in epidemiology.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:A chemical spill from an oil refinery exposed the local community to more than 40,000 lb of highly toxic and corrosive hydrofluoric acid. A community based symptom prevalence study found an association between exposure and physical symptoms: the psychological impact of the disaster and its potential eff...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dayal HH,Baranowski T,Li YH,Morris R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of non-fatal war related injuries on physical disability in a group of war wounded civilians and to assess their needs. DESIGN:Cross sectional study. Home interviews were conducted using a structured interview schedule around one month after the injury, to assess impairments, disa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mehio Sibai A,Sameer Shaar N,el Yassir S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to compare the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) notification system for congenital malformation surveillance and the Liverpool Congenital Malformations Registry (LCMR) with respect to efficiency and uniformity of ascertainment, diagnostic accuracy, and overreporting of minor ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dutton SJ,Owens JR,Harris F

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although trouble sleeping is a common problem among women at mid-life, patterns in trouble sleeping relating to social and health-related risk factors are unclear. This analysis describes the dynamics of trouble sleeping among women at mid-life. METHODS:The National Survey of Health and Development is a nat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tom SE,Kuh D,Guralnik JM,Mishra GD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among different ethnic groups and the influence of deprivation on the prevalence of diabetes among Māori and New Zealand Europeans was investigated. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional survey on all patients registered with 10 practices in the Rotorua General Practice Gro...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Joshy G,Porter T,Le Lievre C,Lane J,Williams M,Lawrenson R

更新日期：2009-05-01 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:Despite a clear impact on the Canadian economy, little is known about the subsequent health impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) in this country. This study fills this gap in knowledge by conducting a repeated cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). METHODS:Data...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nour S,Labonté R,Bancej C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-year age-specific incidence rates were shown to produce small but systematic errors in the calculation of the expected number of tumours in a hypothetical but realistic study population. Underestimates occurred at younger ages (under 55) and overestimates at older ages, with a small overestimate (0.22%) overall. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cramer N,Crombie IK

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the public's knowledge and perception of SARS and the extent to which various precautionary measures have been adopted. DESIGN:Cross sectional survey. SETTING:General population of Hong Kong at the height of the SARS outbreak (29 March to 6 April 2003). PARTICIPANTS:1115 ethnic Chinese adults. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Leung GM,Lam TH,Ho LM,Ho SY,Chan BH,Wong IO,Hedley AJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cancers and other chronic diseases are associated with a long delay between exposure to a putative risk factor and subsequent diagnosis. This presents well recognised problems in the elucidation of suspected risk factors by epidemiological methods. In this paper we discuss the interpretation in epidemiological st...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McPherson K,Coope PA,Vessey MP

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:This is the report of a feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial of chiropractic and hospital outpatient management for low back pain of mechanical origin. Preparations for the study included an approach to the General Medical Council for guidance about the intended collaboration between medically qualified ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors：

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing body of evidence showing that early life events are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases later in adult life. However, there is a paucity of data in this field from Asian populations. In this study, we examined the association of birth order with obesity ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Aurpibul L,Butler ÉM,Wongthanee A,Rerkasem A,Pruenglampoo S,Mangklabruks A,Rerkasem K,Derraik JGB

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationship between residential change and a woman's subsequent risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), whether by a past or a new offender, a relationship that has not been prospectively examined to date. DESIGN:A dynamic cohort of women who recently changed residence (movers) was compared...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Waltermaurer E,McNutt LA,Mattingly MJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study is the first to examine the relationship between gender and self-assessed health (SAH), and the extent to which this varies by socioeconomic position in different European welfare state regimes (Liberal, Corporatist, Social Democratic, Southern). METHODS:The EUROTHINE harmonised data set (based o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bambra C,Pope D,Swami V,Stanistreet D,Roskam A,Kunst A,Scott-Samuel A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to assess the relationship between social deprivation, as measured by the Jarman under-privileged area score (UPA score), and psychiatric admission rates and length of stay within an inner London borough. DESIGN:The study was a retrospective survey of psychiatric admission rates for elector...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cotgrove AJ,Bell G,Katona CL

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate and evaluate published data on cost effectiveness of cholesterol lowering interventions, and how this information could be interpreted in a rational approach of cholesterol management in general practice. DESIGN:A systematic review of the literature. SETTING:No restriction on setting. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： van der Weijden T,Knottnerus JA,Ament AJ,Stoffers HE,Grol RP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence based group educational outreach visit on prescription patterns of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in primary care. DESIGN:Randomised controlled simple blind trial, with randomisation into three groups: experimental (evidence based educational outreach v...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bernal-Delgado E,Galeote-Mayor M,Pradas-Arnal F,Peiró-Moreno S

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ethnic/racial inequalities in access to and quality of healthcare have been repeatedly documented in the USA. Although there is some evidence of inequalities in England, research is not so extensive. Ethnic inequalities in use of primary and secondary health services, and in outcomes of care, were examined i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nazroo JY,Falaschetti E,Pierce M,Primatesta P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neighbourhood social fragmentation and socioeconomic deprivation seem to be associated with suicide mortality. However, results are inconclusive, which might be because dynamics in the social context are not well-represented by administratively bounded neighbourhoods at baseline. We used individualised neigh...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hagedoorn P,Groenewegen PP,Roberts H,Helbich M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aetiology of age-related sarcopenia is not known. OBJECTIVES:To investigate if risk of developing sarcopenia differs by gender and to identify gender-specific risk factors of incident sarcopenia in a large population-based cohort of older English adults. METHODS:The sample (n=3404; age 63.4 (SD 7.7) ye...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Yang L,Smith L,Hamer M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish the prevalence and distribution of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of different types of violence in the general population and the proportion of victims consulting health services or reporting the incident to authorities. METHODS:Cross sectional survey of a random sample of 3007 inhabitan...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Duque LF,Klevens J,Ramirez C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bambra C,Riordan R,Ford J,Matthews F

更新日期：2020-11-01 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:Despite the worldwide trend towards more time being spent at work by employed people, few studies have examined the independent influences of work-based versus home-based social networks on employees' health. We examined the association between work-based social networks and health status by controlling for ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Suzuki E,Takao S,Subramanian SV,Doi H,Kawachi I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate a community wide outbreak of hepatitis A (HA). DESIGN:Description of the outbreak, with a case-control study to assess transmission. SETTING:A Florida county, USA, 1988-9. SUBJECTS:A total of 311 cases of HA. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:A 13 month outbreak of HA is described. Most o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Desenclos JC,MacLafferty L

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the long-term consequences of sickness presence (ie, going to work despite ill-health), although one study suggests an association with coronary heart disease. This study examined the effect of sickness presence on future long-term sickness absence. METHODS:Information from a random sa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hansen CD,Andersen JH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous commentaries plea for the use of methods that take into account complexity when evaluating health programmes. These commentaries provide compelling arguments on why evaluations of health programmes should not rely exclusively on methods that were designed for making universal claims about whether and to what ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Schreuders M,Stronks K,Kunst AE

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00