Induced abortions and teenage births among asylum seekers in The Netherlands: analysis of national surveillance data.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immigrants are sometimes found to have better health than locally born populations. We examined the mortality experience of South Asian origin and white European origin individuals living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. METHODS:A linked 17-21 year mortality follow-up of a cross-sectional study of European (n=82...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hayes L,White M,McNally RJQ,Unwin N,Tran A,Bhopal R

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:A statistical test that allows for adjustment of confounding can be helpful for the study of seasonal patterns. The aim of this article is to supply a detailed description of such a method. An example of its application is given. DESIGN:A statistical test is presented that retains the information on th...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Stolwijk AM,Straatman H,Zielhuis GA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the main trends in the history of publicly organised school meals in Norway, while casting comparative glances at Britain. First, it argues that the status of school meals today is strongly influenced by three intertwined strains of past tradition: poor relief, universal welfare and the ideal of ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Andresen A,Elvbakken KT

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：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：:Records in the obstetric wards and nurseries of 18 hospitals were reviewed and studied epidemiologically, covering about 210,000 deliveries and 1000 cases of neural tube defects (NTD). All live and still births occurred in the period 1970-84. Following the NTD classification used by Koch (1984), our case series consis...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lian ZH,Yang HY,Li Z

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to estimate the likely burden of cervical cancer in New Zealand over the next two decades, according to whether cervical screening services are made more effective. DESIGN:The study was based on national mortality and incidence data for the periods 1954-87 and 1954-86, respectively. An age-...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cox B,Skegg DC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To inform discussions on rates, burden and priority-setting in relation to police violence, we quantified the number and rate of years of life lost (YLLs) due to police violence by race/ethnicity and age in the USA, 2015-2016. METHODS:We used data on the number of deaths due to police violence from 'The Cou...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bui AL,Coates MM,Matthay EC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to increased risk of hypertension, a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. How the risk is altered by intergenerational social mobility is not well known. The aim of this study is to investigate parental SES, adult SES and the intergenerational social mo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Högberg L,Cnattingius S,Lundholm C,Sparén P,Iliadou AN

更新日期：2012-06-01 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 assess the potential for substituting alternative forms of care for admission to an acute hospital in particular groups of patients. DESIGN:A screening tool, the intensity-severity-discharge review system with adult criteria (ISD-A), developed for hospital utilisation review in the USA, was used in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Coast J,Inglis A,Morgan K,Gray S,Kammerling M,Frankel S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position (SEP) across 20 causes of death in a large population-wide sample of Norwegian men and women. METHODS:Census data on parental occupational class from 1960 and data from the tax register on household income in 1990 were linked to the death...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Naess O,Strand BH,Smith GD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uterine fibroids (UFs) are the most common form of sex steroid hormone-dependent benign tumours that grow in the walls of the uterus. Several observational studies have examined the association between obesity and the risk of UFs, but findings are inconsistent. The objective of this systematic review and met...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Qin H,Lin Z,Vásquez E,Luan X,Guo F,Xu L

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of human reproduction was conducted in Tamilnadu State, South India, from 1969 to 1975. This paper reports twinning rates and relates these to maternal age, parity, and consanguinity. Birth weights and other dimensions at birth and infant mortality are also studied. The overall twinning rate was 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rao PS,Inbaraj SG,Muthurathnam S

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Studies have reported the incidence/risk of becoming obese, but few have described the trajectories of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) over time, especially in low/middle-income countries. We assessed the trajectories of BMI and WC according to sex in four sites in Peru. METHODS:Data from...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Carrillo-Larco RM,Miranda JJ,Gilman RH,Checkley W,Smeeth L,Bernabé-Ortiz A,CRONICAS Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2018-05-01 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:China has been facing nationwide air pollution at unprecedented high levels primarily from fossil-fuel combustion in the past decade. However, few studies have been conducted on the adverse effect of severe air pollution on lung development in school-age children. METHODS:Using wellness check and air pollut...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wang T,Wang H,Chen J,Wang J,Ren D,Hu W,Wang H,Han W,Leng S,Zhang R,Zheng Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare group classification of cardiovascular risk by two compound laboratory indices with classification according to the serum total cholesterol concentration alone. DESIGN:Healthy employees were defined as low and high cardiovascular risk subjects according to their total cholesterol concentration or ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Berg JE,Høstmark AT

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare the costs and effects of routine mammography screening by a single mediolateral-oblique view and two views (mediolateral-oblique plus craniocaudal) of each breast. DESIGN:A cost effectiveness analysis of a prospective non-randomised trial comparing one and two view mammography screening was ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bryan S,Brown J,Warren R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1969 to the end of 1983 in Norway, dementia was coded as the underlying cause of death from 2058 death certificates, and as a contributory cause from 19,459. This is 3.56% of the total number of deaths. It seems that a considerable proportion of dementia cases are noted on death certificates in Norway. Death rate...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Flaten TP

更新日期：1989-09-01 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:While various measures of common mental disorders (CMD) have been found to be associated with mortality, a comparison of how different measures predict mortality may improve our understanding of the association. This paper compares how the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the 30-item General ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hannah MK,Batty GD,Benzeval M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Home Office has recently published estimates which, for the first time, provide a "robust national estimate" of the number of problematic drug users in England. The 2004/05 and 2005/06 estimates are the highest estimates ever produced for England and coincide with the highest ever government annual expen...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Frisher M,Forsyth A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of self-reported health (SRH) with the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, life stress, and sociobehavioural factors in adults aged 55 and over. DESIGN:Secondary analysis of data from the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS) in Taiwan in 2000, comprising 1023 individu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Zhang F,Lewis M,Yang G,Iriondo-Perez J,Zeng Y,Liu J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomised controlled trial intensive individual anti-smoking advice given in parallel with hospital antenatal care did not influence the outcome of pregnancy. The belief that retardation of fetal growth caused by maternal smoking occurs in late pregnancy is not well based, and the advice may not have been given ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Donovan JW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population based programme to educate women in breast self-examination (BSE) was organised as part of the UK Trial of Early Detection of Breast Cancer. Women who responded to an invitation to a meeting were educated in groups and were not routinely screened. Open access clinics offered x ray and clinical examination...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Flaherty C,Philip J,Harris WG,Joslin CA

更新日期：1986-03-01 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:To raise compliance in a general practice based colorectal cancer screening programme by the use of a simple health educational leaflet. DESIGN:A randomised controlled trial of the leaflet's effect on completion of faecal occult blood tests. The leaflet explained the high frequency of colorectal cancer, the ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hart AR,Barone TL,Gay SP,Inglis A,Griffin L,Tallon CA,Mayberry JF

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates declined in Europe between 2004 and 2010. We hypothesised that declines might be greater for countries with higher mortality in 2004 and disproportionally affect very preterm infants at highest risk. METHODS:Data about live births, stillbirths and neonatal deaths by g...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Zeitlin J,Mortensen L,Cuttini M,Lack N,Nijhuis J,Haidinger G,Blondel B,Hindori-Mohangoo AD,Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee.

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00