Green space, urbanity, and health: how strong is the relation?

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：: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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN:This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. T...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Avilés LA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many youth deaths occur in the first year of life, from prematurity and anomalies. Detailing mortality after age 1 year may differentially guide preventive strategies in children, adolescents and young adults. METHODS:A cohort study in Ontario, Canada comprised 3 139 698 children born from 1990 to 2016. Adj...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ray JG,Guttmann A,Silveira J,Park AL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the risk factors associated with fracture of the distal forearm, and to evaluate the influence of falls on these risks. DESIGN:This was a case-control study. SETTING:Manchester, UK. PARTICIPANTS:The cases were 62 white women aged 45-82 years who had sustained a fracture of the distal forearm a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： O'Neill TW,Marsden D,Adams JE,Silman AJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of data on the national population-level effectiveness of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in high-HIV-prevalence, resource-limited settings. We assessed national PMTCT impact in South Africa (SA), 2010. METHODS:A facility-based survey was conducted using a strat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Goga AE,Dinh TH,Jackson DJ,Lombard C,Delaney KP,Puren A,Sherman G,Woldesenbet S,Ramokolo V,Crowley S,Doherty T,Chopra M,Shaffer N,Pillay Y,South Africa PMTCT Evaluation Team.

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exponential model based on the infectious disease model of Kermack and McKendrick has been simplified to illustrate how the use of heroin spreads in epidemic fashion. A numerical simulation is arranged to show how the dynamics of spread are influenced by the original number of users, rates of conversion, and time o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackintosh DR,Stewart GT

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to examine the concurrence in the variation of monthly numbers of deaths in summer and winter from the four main underlying causes - respiratory, circulatory, neoplastic, and all others - in four countries. In particular, the hypothesis that most non-respiratory concurrent deaths are mis...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Crombie DL,Fleming DM,Cross KW,Lancashire RJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Several studies have reported an association between income inequality and increased mortality, but few have used net income data, controlled for individual income, or evaluated sensitivity to the choice of inequality measure. The study tested the hypotheses that people in regions of Britain with the gr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Weich S,Lewis G,Jenkins SP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing interest in understanding the connection between mental illness (MI) and the onset of new physical illnesses among previously physically healthy individuals. Yet the role of gender is often forgotten in research focused on comorbidity of health problems. The objective of this study was to ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Matheson FI,Smith KL,Moineddin R,Dunn JR,Glazier RH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper aims to show that, compared with young women, there is an apparent discrepancy in the reported sexual behaviour of young men and records of their fatherhood. DESIGN:The data come from four studies of the sexual behaviour of young people in various parts of Britain between 1960 and 1990 and from st...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cartwright A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the protective effect of storing firearms locked or unloaded, or both, on the risk of suicide by firearms among people with relatively low intention to die. DESIGN AND SETTING:Cross sectional survey. The 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey of 22 957 deaths in the United States, representing...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Shenassa ED,Rogers ML,Spalding KL,Roberts MB

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study whether women having had caesarean sections (index women) have more subsequent health problems, measured by hospital admissions, than women having had vaginal deliveries (control women). DESIGN:The study involved comparison of hospital admissions before (2-5 years) and after (7-10 years)...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hemminki E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social inequality in ischaemic heart disease has been related to socioeconomic position in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. However, the impact of relative level of accumulated income periods across adult life course and the potential gender and age differences have not been investigated. The a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kriegbaum M,Hougaard CØ,Andersen I,Brønnum-Hansen H,Lund R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although physical activity is associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL), the nature of the dose-response relationship remains unclear. OBJECTIVES:To examine the concurrent and prospective dose-response relationships between total physical activity (TPA) and (only) walking with HRQL in two age co...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Heesch KC,van Uffelen JG,van Gellecum YR,Brown WJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Evidence on the role of cannabis as a gateway drug is inconsistent. We characterise patterns of cannabis use among UK teenagers aged 13-18 years, and assess their influence on problematic substance use at age 21 years. METHODS:We used longitudinal latent class analysis to derive trajectories of cannabis use...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Taylor M,Collin SM,Munafò MR,MacLeod J,Hickman M,Heron J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic diseases are now a major health problem in developing countries as well as in the developed world. Although chronic diseases cannot be communicated from person to person, their risk factors (for example, smoking, inactivity, dietary habits) are readily transferred around the world. With increasing hu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Choi BC,McQueen DV,Puska P,Douglas KA,Ackland M,Campostrini S,Barceló A,Stachenko S,Mokdad AH,Granero R,Corber SJ,Valleron AJ,Skinner HA,Potemkina R,Lindner MC,Zakus D,de Salazar LM,Pak AW,Ansari Z,Zevallos JC,Gon

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the situation of the influenza in Portugal through the estimates of the incidence rates and the identification of the viral strains implicated on it during the period 1990-1996. DESIGN:The integrated clinical and laboratory surveillance system for influenza in Portugal is based on the Portuguese...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Falcão IM,de Andrade HR,Santos AS,Paixão MT,Falcão JM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most direct way in which climate change is expected to affect public health relates to changes in mortality rates associated with exposure to ambient temperature. Many countries worldwide experience annual heat-related and cold-related deaths associated with current weather patterns. Future changes in cl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hajat S,Vardoulakis S,Heaviside C,Eggen B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Although national variation in short-term prognosis (that is, 30 day mortality) after a patient's first hospitalisation for heart failure may depend on individual differences between patients, dissimilarities in hospital practices may also influence prognosis. This study, therefore, sought to disentangl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Merlo J,Ostergren PO,Broms K,Bjorck-Linné A,Liedholm H

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To map out area effects on health research, this study had the following aims: (1) to inventory multilevel investigations of area effects on self rated health, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, and mortality among adults; (2) to describe and critically discuss methodological approaches employed and results obs...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Riva M,Gauvin L,Barnett TA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality, incidence of most diseases, and prevalence of adverse health behaviours follow an inverse gradient with social class. Many proxies for socioeconomic status (SES) exist; however, each bears a different relation to health outcomes, probably following a different aetiological pathway. Additionally, d...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Butterfield MC,Williams AR,Beebe T,Finnie D,Liu H,Liesinger J,Sloan J,Wheeler PH,Yawn B,Juhn YJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To study municipal variations in children's injury risk and to assess the impact of safety promotion measures in general municipal, preschool, school, and leisure activity settings, on injury outcome. DESIGN:A cohort study based on individual data on children's consumption of hospital care as a result ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sellström E,Guldbrandsson K,Bremberg S,Hjern A,Arnoldsson G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate methods for calculating life expectancy in small areas, for example, English electoral wards. DESIGN:The Monte Carlo method was used to simulate the distribution of life expectancy (and its standard error) estimates for 10 alternative life table models. The models were combinations of Chian...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Eayres D,Williams ES

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of cancers of the upper alimentary tract was conducted in a hospital to assess the role of several risk factors, including alcohol consumption, which is reported here. Male patients from one community with cancers of the oral cavity (n = 278), pharynx (n = 225), and oesophagus (n = 236) formed the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Notani PN

更新日期：1988-06-01 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: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