Integrating research and action: a systematic review of community-based participatory research to address health disparities in environmental and occupational health in the USA.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this paper is to give an overview and comparison of different easily applicable statistical techniques to analyse recurrent event data. SETTING:These techniques include naive techniques and longitudinal techniques such as Cox regression for recurrent events, generalised estimating equati...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Twisk JW,Smidt N,de Vente W

更新日期：2005-08-01 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:The extent to which patients undergoing elective surgery for orthopaedic disorders were incapacitated for work while they were on the waiting list and whether they were able to return to work after surgery were studied. DESIGN:This was a prospective cohort study of patients admitted to hospital for ele...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rossvoll I,Benum P,Bredland TR,Solstad K,Arntzen E,Jørgensen S

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：: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:Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a new programme designed to reduce disease burden to the individual and economic burden to the society of common mental health problems (CMHP). This is the first study to look at the impact of IAPT on health service utilisation and sickness absence using ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： de Lusignan S,Chan T,Parry G,Dent-Brown K,Kendrick T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the extent of commercial tobacco imagery in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) press. METHODS:Content analysis of all advertising containing tobacco related text or imagery in 20 LGB community periodicals, published between January 1990 and December 2000. RESULTS:3428 ads were found: 689 tob...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Smith EA,Offen N,Malone RE

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic factors may influence changes in hip fracture (HF) incidence over time. We analysed HF temporal trends during the Bone and Joint Decade in Portugal (BJD-Portugal), 2000-2010, by regional socioeconomic status (SES), sex and age. METHODS:We selected registers of patients aged 50+ years with HF (...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Oliveira CM,Alves SM,Pina MF

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the implementation of policy interventions to address open drug consumption, public injecting continues to occur in many urban settings. This study sought to examine public injecting among a community-recruited cohort of injecting drug users (IDUs) in Vancouver. METHODS:The prevalence and correlates...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： DeBeck K,Small W,Wood E,Li K,Montaner J,Kerr T

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relative admission rates of Asian and non-Asian patients to intensive therapy units (ITUs) in Coventry and to explore the implications of these rates for the transplantation of organs to Asian people. DESIGN:Examination of 1991 census data and a retrospective review of ITU admissions books. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Exley C,Sim J,Reid NG,Booth L,Jackson S,West N

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disparities in health among blacks and Hispanics compared to whites individuals exist for a number of health measures; however, the health profile of individuals who are both black and Hispanic is not well known. We sought to determine whether race and ethnicity have synchronous or independent effects on hea...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： LaVeist-Ramos TA,Galarraga J,Thorpe RJ Jr,Bell CN,Austin CJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV incidence estimates are crucial in understanding and predicting the HIV/AIDS epidemic and identifying sub-populations and regions most at risk for the epidemic. However, incidence estimation is a challenge due to the nature of the disease and type of data available. This paper aims to present a simple an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rajan SS,Sokal D

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lifestyle factors in combination have been hypothesised to be associated with the prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and mortality among individuals with T2D. The aim was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the association between lifestyle indices and incident T2D as well as mort...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Schlesinger S,Neuenschwander M,Ballon A,Nöthlings U,Barbaresko J

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The main cause of breast cancer remains unknown. Numerous causal factors or predisposing conditions have been proposed, but account for only a small percentage of the total disease. The current search for multiple causes is unavailing. This report explores whether any single aetiological agent may be re...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wiseman RA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-cohort comparison is an established method for improving causal inference. This study compared 2 cohorts, 1 from a high-income country and another from a middle-income country, to (1) establish whether birth exposures may play a causal role in the development of childhood attention problems; and (2) id...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murray E,Pearson R,Fernandes M,Santos IS,Barros FC,Victora CG,Stein A,Matijasevich A

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The fall in the prevalence of left handedness with age has been attributed to either premature mortality or a cohort effect of forced dextrality. Evidence for forced dextrality was sought to differentiate between these competing theories. DESIGN:6097 Edinburgh handedness inventories were used to calculate l...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ellis SJ,Ellis PJ,Marshall E,Windridge C,Jones S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Wales National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) is a 16-week programme including motivational interviewing, goal setting and relapse prevention. METHOD:A pragmatic randomised controlled trial with nested economic evaluation of 2160 inactive participants with coronary heart disease risk (CHD, 1559, 72%), ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murphy SM,Edwards RT,Williams N,Raisanen L,Moore G,Linck P,Hounsome N,Din NU,Moore L

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Active ageing is a key to healthy ageing; shopping behaviour is an economically relevant activity of the elderly. METHODS:Analysis was based on the NAHSIT 1999-2000 dataset. A total of 1841 representative free-living elderly Taiwanese people were selected and information included demographics, socioeconomic...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chang YH,Chen RC,Wahlqvist ML,Lee MS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Many economic factors are associated with diet, yet the evidence is generally cross-sectional. Older people are considered especially vulnerable to poor diets from negative changes to varied economic factors. This review extends current knowledge on known correlates to decipher actual economic deter...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Conklin AI,Maguire ER,Monsivais P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to investigate suicide and "undetermined" deaths by age, economic activity status, and social class in Great Britain among males of working age. DESIGN:The study was a cross sectional analysis of Registrar General's data for England and Wales around 1981, repeated for around 1971, and for S...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kreitman N,Carstairs V,Duffy J

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynaecological neoplasms, especially in industrialised countries. The aetiology of the disease is not well understood, except that inherited mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 account for up to 10% of all cases, and child-bearing, oral contraceptive use and ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Langseth H,Hankinson SE,Siemiatycki J,Weiderpass E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined whether higher effort-reward imbalance (ERI) and lower job control are associated with exit from the labour market. METHODS:There were 1263 participants aged 50-74 years from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing with data on working status and work-related psychosocial factors at baseline (w...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hintsa T,Kouvonen A,McCann M,Jokela M,Elovainio M,Demakakos P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic differences in health are a major challenge for public health. However, realistic estimates to what extent they are modifiable are scarce. This problem can be met through the systematic application of the population attributable fraction (PAF) to socioeconomic health inequalities. METHODS:The ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hoffmann R,Eikemo TA,Kulhánová I,Dahl E,Deboosere P,Dzúrová D,van Oyen H,Rychtaríková J,Strand BH,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity implies costs not only for the individual but also for society. The authors explore the opinions of stakeholders on the potential of taxes or subsidies, as measures for tackling obesity in Europe. METHODS:Structured interviews were conducted using Multicriteria Mapping, a computer-based, decision-su...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： González-Zapata LI,Alvarez-Dardet C,Millstone E,Clemente-Gómez V,Holdsworth M,Ortiz-Moncada R,Lobstein T,Sarri K,De Marchi B,Horvath KZ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies show contradictory findings on the relationship between health and intergenerational living arrangements (ILAs), which may be due to variation in who selects themselves into and out of ILA. Addressing the selectivity into ILA and the health of the older generation, we assess whether there is...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Permyakova NV,Billingsley S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00