Political ideology and health in Japan: a disaggregated analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several models have been proposed to explain the association between ethnicity and health. It was investigated whether the association between Roma ethnicity and health is fully mediated by socioeconomic status in Hungary. METHODS:Comparative health interview surveys were performed in 2003-04 on representat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Vokó Z,Csépe P,Németh R,Kósa K,Kósa Z,Széles G,Adány R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore individual and social factors that could predict health care utilisation and medication among people with chronic pain in an unselected population. DESIGN:A mailed survey with questions about pain and mental symptoms, disability, self care action, visits to health care providers, and medicat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Andersson HI,Ejlertsson G,Leden I,Scherstén B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that birth weight is positively associated with education, but it remains unclear whether this association is explained by familial environmental factors, genetic factors or the intrauterine environment. We analysed the association between birth weight and educational years within twin pair...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jelenkovic A,Mikkonen J,Martikainen P,Latvala A,Yokoyama Y,Sund R,Vuoksimaa E,Rebato E,Sung J,Kim J,Lee J,Lee S,Stazi MA,Fagnani C,Brescianini S,Derom CA,Vlietinck RF,Loos RJF,Krueger RF,McGue M,Pahlen S,Nelson

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled trial hypothesising that providing mindfulness courses to university students would promote their resilience to stress ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Galante J,Stochl J,Dufour G,Vainre M,Wagner AP,Jones PB

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Much of the UK government's 1999 report on teenage pregnancy was by necessity based on rather old or non-longitudinal research. AIM:To examine the associations between risk factors identified in the report and pregnancy at or before age 16 years among young women and partners of young men using the more rec...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Allen E,Bonell C,Strange V,Copas A,Stephenson J,Johnson AM,Oakley A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the influence of sleeplessness and number of insomnia symptoms on the probability of recovery from chronic low back pain (LBP), and the possible interplay between sleeplessness and co-occurring musculoskeletal pain on this association. METHODS:The study comprised data on 3712 women and 2488 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Skarpsno ES,Mork PJ,Nilsen TIL,Nordstoga AL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with returning for second round mammography screening. SETTING:This was a population based mammographic screening programme in Melbourne, Australia. DESIGN:A cohort design was used whereby 668 women were interviewed before the screening programme began and attendance for both f...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cockburn J,Schofield P,White V,Hill D,Russell I

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:(1) To assess the association between birth weight and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in a cohort of post-menopausal women, (2) to determine the combined effects of birth weight and adult body mass index on CHD, (3) to assess the role of insulin resistance as a mediating factor in the associations. DESIG...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lawlor DA,Davey Smith G,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2004-02-01 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: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 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:The purpose of the study was to examine adult body height as an indicator of general health. DESIGN:The study was a survey of a randomly selected sample of the adult Swedish population obtained by the Swedish National Central Bureau of Statistics. PARTICIPANTS:The sample studied was identified in 1980...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Peck AM,Vågerö DH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the extent to which poorer self assessed health in men in whom an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is detected at screening is a consequence or a predictor of screening outcome. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Community based screening. PARTICIPANTS:23 654 men who attended for AAA screeni...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Marteau TM,Kim LG,Upton J,Thompson SG,Scott AP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study is the first to examine the relationship between gender and self-assessed health (SAH), and the extent to which this varies by socioeconomic position in different European welfare state regimes (Liberal, Corporatist, Social Democratic, Southern). METHODS:The EUROTHINE harmonised data set (based o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bambra C,Pope D,Swami V,Stanistreet D,Roskam A,Kunst A,Scott-Samuel A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lower blood folate levels have been associated with depression in cross-sectional surveys, but no studies have examined the relationship prospectively to determine whether the relationship is causal. A follow-up study was designed to examine whether lower blood folate levels predict incident depressive sympt...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kendrick T,Dunn N,Robinson S,Oestmann A,Godfrey K,Cooper C,Inskip H,Southampton Women's Survey Study Group.

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the causes of poor mental health in early childhood and adolescence is important as this can be a significant determinant of mental well-being in later years. One potential and relatively unexplored factor is residential mobility in formative years. Previous studies have been relatively small a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tseliou F,Maguire A,Donnelly M,O'Reilly D

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the politics of appropriating Question 1 tobacco tax revenues in the first budget year after Massachusetts voters passed the ballot initiative in 1992. The initiative increased the tobacco tax on cigarettes by 25 cents per pack and on smokeless tobacco by 25% of the wholesale price. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ritch WA,Begay ME

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to present risk assessments for the combined effect of alcohol and tobacco in cancer of the larynx. The case control study included all newly diagnosed laryngeal cancer patients under the age of 75 in Denmark during the years 1980-2. Four age and sex matched controls were selected using the mu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Olsen J,Sabreo S,Fasting U

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High intelligence early in life has consistently been associated with decreased mortality, but the mechanisms are still not fully understood. In this cohort study, we examined the association between intelligence in early adulthood and later mortality from natural and unnatural causes taking birth weight, pa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Meincke RH,Mortensen EL,Avlund K,Rosthøj S,Sørensen HJ,Osler M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Organisational justice has been proposed as a new way to examine the impact of psychosocial work environment on employee health. This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) as a predictor of health. DESIGN:Prospective cohort ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kivimäki M,Ferrie JE,Head J,Shipley MJ,Vahtera J,Marmot MG

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To examine variables related with publication bias assessment in a sample of systematic reviews with meta-analysis on cardiovascular diseases. DESIGN:Systematic review of meta-analyses. SETTING:Journals indexed in Medline and the Cochrane Library. STUDY POPULATION:225 reviews with meta-analysis published b...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Palma S,Delgado-Rodriguez M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the Glasgow Register of Congenital Malformations were used to investigate the extent of the recent decline in the prevalence of anencephaly and spina bifida, and the contribution of antenatal screening to it. Over the period 1974-85 inclusive, 303 pregnancies with an anencephalic foetus were diagnosed, repre...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Stone DH,Smalls MJ,Rosenberg K,Womersley J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of non-fatal war related injuries on physical disability in a group of war wounded civilians and to assess their needs. DESIGN:Cross sectional study. Home interviews were conducted using a structured interview schedule around one month after the injury, to assess impairments, disa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mehio Sibai A,Sameer Shaar N,el Yassir S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few longitudinal data on physical activity patterns from mid-life into older age. The authors examined associations of self-reported physical activity, adiposity and socio-demographic factors in mid-life with objectively assessed measures of activity in older age. METHODS:Participants were 394 hea...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hamer M,Kivimaki M,Steptoe A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore risk factors for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OAK) in women, which included wearing high heeled shoes. DESIGN:Matched case-control study. Exposure information obtained by interview, included details about past footwear. Self reported weight and height data obtained representing when wome...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dawson J,Juszczak E,Thorogood M,Marks SA,Dodd C,Fitzpatrick R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A highly sensitive and simple screening procedure is required for early detection of low birthweight and small for gestational age, especially in developing countries. METHODS:A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate use of symphysis-fundal height for prediction of low birthweight and small for gestational...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Goto E

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00