Association of serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants with the prevalence of learning disability and attention deficit disorder.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the value of psychosocial risk factors in discriminating between individuals at higher and lower risk of coronary heart disease, using risk prediction equations. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Scotland. PARTICIPANTS:5191 employed men aged 35 to 64 years and free of coronary heart...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Macleod J,Metcalfe C,Smith GD,Hart C

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Socioeconomic differentials in the uptake of medical care in men were investigated using data from the General Household Survey (1974-76 and 1979-80). Hospitalisation, attendance at out patient clinics, and consultation with doctors were higher in local authority tenants than in owner occupiers. Men belonging to the m...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Balarajan R,Yuen P,Machin D

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To report on the development of computer assisted methods for linking medical records and record abstracts. DESIGN:The methods include file blocking, to put records in an order which makes searching efficient; matching, which is the process of comparing records to determine whether they do or do not relate ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Gill L,Goldacre M,Simmons H,Bettley G,Griffith M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To estimate the relative health effects of the income and health insurance provisions of the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:About 10 000 employees of city contractors are subject to the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance, which establishes an annually adjusted mini...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cole BL,Shimkhada R,Morgenstern H,Kominski G,Fielding JE,Wu S

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：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：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the incidence of seroconversion and seroreversion in IgG antibodies to Helicobacter pylori within a 11 year observation period using these events as markers for acquisition and loss of the infection, respectively. DESIGN:Population based prospective cohort study. SETTING:Northern part of Co...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rosenstock S,Jørgensen T,Andersen L,Bonnevie O

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the difficulties of developing and maintaining outcome evaluation designs in long term, community based health promotion programmes. DESIGN:Semistructured interviews of health promotion managers. SETTING:Wales and two reference health regions in England. PARTICIPANTS:Nine health promotion ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nutbeam D,Smith C,Murphy S,Catford J

更新日期：1993-04-01 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:A reduction in sex ratio at live birth has been proposed as a sentinel health indicator that can be used to monitor the health of populations. OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that a lower sex ratio is associated with adverse national population health using the prevalences of HIV and tuberculosis as measur...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Shifotoka A,Fogarty AW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: "These are the opinions on which I base my facts". Why pretend? To take a topical example, if you are on the nature side of the nature/nurture debates, is it likely t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Marmot M,Friel S

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：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：:Health equity is increasingly present as an overarching goal in public health policy frameworks across the globe. Public health actions to support health equity are challenging because solutions to the root causes of health inequities often lie outside of the health sector, and a specific role for environmental public...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rideout K,Oickle D

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research on inequalities in health has shown a strong association between the lack of standard of living (defined as material deprivation) and self-rated health (SRH). In this study, we sought to further examine this association in a trend analysis of relative and absolute inequalities in SRH as defined by m...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pförtner TK,Elgar FJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to evaluate the hypothesis that sunlight exposure leads to the development of gallstones in people with a sun sensitive skin. DESIGN AND SETTING:This was a case-control study among 206 white patients referred for an ultrasound examination of the gallbladder. Sunlight exposure and skin sensi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pavel S,Thijs CT,Potocky V,Knipschild PG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate age, period, and cohort effects on functional status. DESIGN:A prospective cohort study with measurements in 1981, 1990, and 1996. SETTING:Three municipalities in north east Finland. PARTICIPANTS:A regionally representative sample of 19 to 63 year old men and women was drawn from the c...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Malmberg JJ,Miilunpalo SI,Vuori IM,Pasanen ME,Oja P,Haapanen-Niemi NA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through life-course epidemiological studies. AIMS:To investi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Roustit C,Renahy E,Guernec G,Lesieur S,Parizot I,Chauvin P

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and risk of frailty, and to assess whether behavioural and clinical factors (BCF) mediate this association. METHODS:Cohort of 1857 non-institutionalised individuals aged ≥ 60 years recruited in 2008-2010 and followed through 2012. Education, occu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Soler-Vila H,García-Esquinas E,León-Muñoz LM,López-García E,Banegas JR,Rodríguez-Artalejo F

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Childhood mortality is a well-known public health issue, particularly in the low and middle income countries. The overarching aim of this study was to examine whether neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with childhood mortality beyond individual-level measures of socioeconomic status in Ni...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Adekanmbi VT,Kandala NB,Stranges S,Uthman OA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to childhood household dysfunction increases the risk of psychiatric morbidity. Although school performance also has been linked with psychiatric morbidity, limited research has considered school performance as a mediating factor. To address this gap in the literature, the current register study exa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Björkenstam E,Dalman C,Vinnerljung B,Weitoft GR,Walder DJ,Burström B

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:This study examined the prospective association of workplace social capital (WSC) with major depressive episode (MDE) among Japanese employees. METHODS:A 3-year prospective cohort study was conducted among 1058 employees from a private think-tank company who participated in a baseline survey; after excludin...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sakuraya A,Imamura K,Inoue A,Tsutsumi A,Shimazu A,Takahashi M,Totsuzaki T,Kawakami N

更新日期：2017-06-01 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