Evaluation of methodologies for small area life expectancy estimation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the article by Starfield and colleagues, it was suggested that the concept of prevention has gone astray. This article aims to extend their ideas. METHODS:Our methods are to take the Starfield et al article and argue that it is possible and useful to see prevention in a wider context, going beyond preven...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ataguba JE,Mooney G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume and velocity of data are growing rapidly and big data analytics are being applied to these data in many fields. Population and public health researchers may be unfamiliar with the terminology and statistical methods used in big data. This creates a barrier to the application of big data analytics. The purpo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fuller D,Buote R,Stanley K

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to examine the possible influence of social class on the prevalence of cerebral palsy. DESIGN:The study was a retrospective population based survey of all cases of cerebral palsy. SETTING:The study involved all cases of cerebral palsy born to residents in the Eastern Health Bo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dowding VM,Barry C

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social paediatrics is an approach to child health that focuses on the child, in illness and in health, within the context of their society, environment, school, and family. The glossary clarifies the range of terms used to describe aspects of paediatric practice that overlap or are subsumed under social paediatrics an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Spencer N,Colomer C,Alperstein G,Bouvier P,Colomer J,Duperrex O,Gokcay G,Julien G,Kohler L,Lindström B,Macfarlane A,Mercer R,Panagiotopoulos T,Schulpen T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controversy remains on the relation between serum lipids levels and stroke risk. This paper investigated the association of total and HDL cholesterol level to fatal and non-fatal, and haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke in four European cohorts participating in EUROSTROKE. METHODS:EUROSTROKE is a collaborativ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bots ML,Elwood PC,Nikitin Y,Salonen JT,Freire de Concalves A,Inzitari D,Sivenius J,Benetou V,Tuomilehto J,Koudstaal PJ,Grobbee DE

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health inequities between indigenous and non-indigenous people are well documented. However, the contribution of differential exposure to risk factors in the occupational environment remains unclear. This study assessed differences in the prevalence of self-reported exposure to disease risk factors, includin...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Denison HJ,Eng A,Barnes LA,Cheng S,'t Mannetje A,Haddock K,Douwes J,Pearce N,Ellison-Loschmann L

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:In a study of selenium status in 391 apparently healthy subjects resident in the south of England statistical examination of the data showed a significant effect with regard to age, smoking, alcohol, and oral contraceptives. The most important of these factors seems to be a combination of alcohol and smoking habits in...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lloyd B,Lloyd RS,Clayton BE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality from congenital malformations by mother's country of birth was examined in England and Wales between the years 1976 and 1980, based on stillbirths and infant deaths. There were 18 870 stillbirths and infant deaths attributed to congenital malformations in this period, of which 2 375 (13%) were to mothers bor...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Balarajan R,McDowall M

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To describe the areas affected and the scale of an epidemic of thunderstorm associated asthma on the night of 24/25 June 1994 and to explore the spatial and temporal relationship between the thunderstorm and the associated epidemic. SETTING:The 29 offices of a deputising service for general practitioners' (G...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Higham J,Venables K,Kupek E,Bajekal M

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:We examined the associations between socioeconomic trajectories from birth to adulthood and gestational age and birth size in the next generation, using linked data from two population-based birth cohorts carried out in a Brazilian city. By comparing socioeconomic trajectories of mothers and fathers, we atte...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Gigante DP,Horta BL,Matijasevich A,Mola CL,Barros AJ,Santos IS,Barros FC,Victora CG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI; ICD9-CM 410*) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world, and its community surveillance is essential to monitor variation in the occurrence of the disease. Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s more sensitive and specific biomarkers of myocardial ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barchielli A,Balzi D,Naldoni P,Roberts AT,Profili F,Dima F,Palmieri L

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To analyse time trends in overweight and obesity from 1991 to 2000 in samples of German children and to test the hypothesis of a trend difference between the samples from East and West Germany during this time period. DESIGN:Repeated cross-sectional studies using data of 35,434 five to seven-year-old childre...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Apfelbacher CJ,Cairns J,Bruckner T,Möhrenschlager M,Behrendt H,Ring J,Krämer U

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether perceived failure in school performance increases the potential for children to be physically injured. SUBJECTS:Children aged 10-15 years residing in the Stockholm County and hospitalised or called back for a medical check up because of a physical injury during the school years 2000-2...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Laflamme L,Engström K,Möller J,Hallqvist J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective questionnaire and interview study of 10 year survivors of uncomplicated myocardial infarction examined smoking, diet, exercise, weight, medication, and treatment since discharge from hospital in 1973-4 and made comparisons with controls (using the same questionnaire) and with normal populations (as rep...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： West RR,Evans DA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study investigates social inequalities in self-rated health dynamics for working-aged adults in four nations, representing distinct welfare regime types. The aims are to describe average national trajectories of self-rated health over a 7-year period, identify social determinants of cross-sectional and ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sacker A,Worts D,McDonough P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Micronutrient deficiencies have become rare in industrialised countries as availability of fresh food, supplementation, and fortification have improved but a less favourable situation may still prevail in many developing countries. Blood thiamin status and determinants were therefore investigated in the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bovet P,Larue D,Fayol V,Paccaud F

更新日期：1998-04-01 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:There is wide evidence that women present longer duration of sickness absence (SA) than men. Musculoskeletal disorders are influenced by gender due to the sexual division of work. METHODS:354 432 episodes of non-work-related SA due to musculoskeletal disorders, which were registered in Catalonia between 200...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Arcas MM,Delclos GL,Torá-Rocamora I,Martínez JM,Benavides FG

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modifications in working conditions can accommodate changing needs of chronically ill persons. The self-employed may have more possibilities than employees to modify their working conditions. We investigate how working conditions change following diagnosis of chronic disease for employed and self-employed ol...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fleischmann M,Carr E,Xue B,Zaninotto P,Stansfeld SA,Stafford M,Head J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are substantial socioeconomic inequalities in functional limitations in old age. Resilience may offer new insights into these inequalities by identifying constellations of factors that protect some individuals from developing functional limitations despite socioeconomic adversity. METHODS:Data from 19...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kok AAL,Stafford M,Cosco TD,Huisman M,Deeg D,Kuh D,Cooper R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare a self administered computerised assessment of neurotic psychiatric disorder (psychiatric morbidity) with an identical assessment administered by a human interviewer. In particular, to discover whether a computerised assessment overestimates or underestimates the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lewis G

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether cognitive performance in childhood is an early determinant of adult illness. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study covering over 30 years. SETTING:Providence, Rhode Island, USA. PARTICIPANTS:633 people ages 30-39 followed up since birth as part of the Providence cohort of the national c...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Martin LT,Fitzmaurice GM,Kindlon DJ,Buka SL

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A random sample of 617 primiparas was identified from birth notifications over a 12 month period and 534 of these were interviewed four weeks after confinement. Those breast feeding at the time of interview were contacted again at four months and those still breast feeding then were contacted at six and a half months....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wright HJ,Walker PC

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study examined the change in ethnic differences in mortality in Estonia 1989-2000. DESIGN:Two unlinked cross sectional census based analyses were compared. Total and cause specific mortality was analysed for ethnic Estonians and Russians. The absolute differences in mortality were evaluated throug...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Leinsalu M,Vågerö D,Kunst AE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the most appropriate surrogate indicator and its cut off point for identifying low birthweight babies in northern India. STUDY SETTING:A secondary level hospital at Ballabgarh. The patients were from nearby rural and urban areas and mostly belonged to lower and middle socioeconomic strata....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kapoor SK,Kumar G,Anand K

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00