A comparison of coronary heart disease event rates among urban Australian Aboriginal people and a matched non-Aboriginal population.

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：:Many cancers and other chronic diseases are associated with a long delay between exposure to a putative risk factor and subsequent diagnosis. This presents well recognised problems in the elucidation of suspected risk factors by epidemiological methods. In this paper we discuss the interpretation in epidemiological st...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McPherson K,Coope PA,Vessey MP

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Housing is an important environmental influence on population health, and there is growing evidence of health effects from indoor environment characteristics such as low indoor temperatures. However, there is relatively little research, and thus little firm guidance, on the cost-effectiveness of public polic...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chapman R,Howden-Chapman P,Viggers H,O'Dea D,Kennedy M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess comprehensively the validity of the data in the Finnish Medical Birth Registry (MBR) by the combined use of several controls and internal analysis of the data. DESIGN:The MBR data were individually linked to a medical record sample (n = 775) and to all perinatal death certificates in 1987. The data...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Teperi J

更新日期：1993-06-01 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: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：: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:Policies to increase Australian Indigenous children's participation in preschool aim to reduce developmental inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. This study aims to understand the benefits of preschool participation by quantifying the association between preschool participation in the y...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Falster K,Hanly M,Edwards B,Banks E,Lynch JW,Eades S,Nickel N,Goldfeld S,Biddle N

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to explore the impact of mid-life income and old-age pensions on the risk of mortality in later life. Furthermore, the study explored whether income inequalities in old-age mortality can be explained by differences in early childhood development, social class during childhood, educa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fors S,Modin B,Koupil I,Vågerö D

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Sleep plays an important role in health and varies by social determinants. Little is known, however, about geographic variations in sleep and the role of individual-level and neighbourhood-level factors. METHODS:We used a multilevel modelling approach to quantify neighbourhood variation in self-reported sle...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fang SC,Subramanian SV,Piccolo R,Yang M,Yaggi HK,Bliwise DL,Araujo AB

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the short term health effects of improving housing. DESIGN:Randomised to waiting list. SETTING:119 council owned houses in south Devon, UK. PARTICIPANTS:About 480 residents of these houses. INTERVENTION:Upgrading houses (including central heating, ventilation, rewiring, insulation, and re-roofin...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barton A,Basham M,Foy C,Buckingham K,Somerville M,Torbay Healthy Housing Group.

更新日期：2007-09-01 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

abstract：:A study of 150 hotel prostitutes in Lagos was undertaken to determine their socioeconomic identity and, through an assessment of their health knowledge, attitude, and practice, their probable impact on public health. The subjects were selected from 15 hotels, representing 20% of the estimated hotel universe in Lagos a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Oleru UG

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Base line data together with data in public registers and a structured phone interview of 94 of the 121 non-attenders was used for an assessment of factors influencing participation in the prospective population study 'Men born in 1914' in Malmö, Sweden. The overall attendance rate was 80.5% but varied among areas in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Janzon L,Hanson BS,Isacsson SO,Lindell SE,Steen B

更新日期：1986-06-01 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 OBJECTIVES:Sociodemographic differentials in cancer survival have occasionally been studied by using a relative survival approach, where all cause mortality among persons with a cancer diagnosis is compared with that among similar persons without such a diagnosis ("normal" mortality). One should ideally take into...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kravdal Ø

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Before and during peak influenza periods there is increased morbidity from other respiratory tract disorders. Sentinel networks of primary care physicians can be very effective in the early detection of influenza epidemics and the German network, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Influenza (AGI), began its work in thi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Szecsenyi J,Uphoff H,Ley S,Brede HD

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the long-term consequences of sickness presence (ie, going to work despite ill-health), although one study suggests an association with coronary heart disease. This study examined the effect of sickness presence on future long-term sickness absence. METHODS:Information from a random sa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hansen CD,Andersen JH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of a telephone reminder in increasing responses to postal surveys and to calculate the differential costs per completed questionnaire. DESIGN:Randomised controlled trial. SETTING:Australian university and rehabilitation medicine practice. PARTICIPANTS:The trial was conduct...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Salim Silva M,Smith WT,Bammer G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that racial discrimination impacts health via biological dysregulation due to continual adaptation to chronic psychosocial stress. Therefore, quantifying chronicity is critical for operationalising the relevant aetiological exposure and hence maximising internal validity. Using one of the mos...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Michaels E,Thomas M,Reeves A,Price M,Hasson R,Chae D,Allen A

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:It is increasingly recognised that different dimensions of social inequality may be linked to health by different pathways. Furthermore, factors operating at the individual level such as employment conditions may affect health in a different way from household level factors. The paper examines the assoc...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chandola T,Bartley M,Wiggins R,Schofield P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011 had a short-term influence on the increase in emergency department visits and hospital admissions due to various diseases. However, it remains unclear whether the earthquake and tsunami disaster affected the long-ter...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sasabuchi Y,Matsui H,Yasunaga H,Fushimi K

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：:Between 1975 and 1 April 1986, public transport by bus in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, England, was increasingly subsidised. Trends in road traffic accident casualties between 1974 and 1983 in all the six provincial English metropolitan counties have been compared in order to examine the possible effect...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nicholl JP,Freeman MR,Williams BT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00