Sexual and reproductive health activities in HIV programmes: can we monitor progress?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts to end preventable newborn deaths will fail if the poor are not reached with effective interventions. To understand what works to reach vulnerable groups, we describe and explain the uptake of a highly effective community-based newborn health intervention across social strata in Asia and Africa. MET...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Houweling TA,Morrison J,Alcock G,Azad K,Das S,Hossen M,Kuddus A,Lewycka S,Looman CW,Magar BB,Manandhar DS,Akter M,Dube AL,Rath S,Saville N,Sen A,Tripathy P,Costello A,EquiNaM group.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of moderate to heavy exposure to alcohol and tobacco on the risk of cancer of the hypopharynx is estimated in a case-control study. All incident hypopharyngeal cancer patients in Denmark who were under 75 years of age were compared with incident cases of laryngeal cancer and population sampled controls. The...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Olsen J,Sabroe S,Ipsen J

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:A large proportion of the population of England live in substandard housing. Previous research has suggested that poor-quality housing, particularly in terms of cold temperatures, mould, and damp, poses a health risk, particularly for older people. The present study aimed to examine the association between h...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Webb E,Blane D,de Vries R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Road traffic casualties show some of the widest socioeconomic differentials of any cause of morbidity or mortality, and as yet there is little evidence on what works to reduce them. This study quantified the current and potential future impact of the introduction of 20 mph zones on socioeconomic inequalities...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Steinbach R,Grundy C,Edwards P,Wilkinson P,Green J

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to compare the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) notification system for congenital malformation surveillance and the Liverpool Congenital Malformations Registry (LCMR) with respect to efficiency and uniformity of ascertainment, diagnostic accuracy, and overreporting of minor ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dutton SJ,Owens JR,Harris F

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to examine disease concurrence, using diabetes mellitus as an ullustrative example. DESIGN:The study involved a general practice morbidity survey, conducted over 12 months in 1981-82. All patients who consulted their general practitioners with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (type 1 or typ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fleming DM,Crombie DL,Cross KW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relative influence of area of residence on mortality risk along the life course in different age groups and to see if this differs for causes known to be related differently to various models of the life course. METHODS:Individual data from the Censuses in 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990 from Oslo, ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Naess O,Claussen B,Smith GD,Leyland AH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last decades of the 20th century, a widening of the gap in death rates between upper and lower socioeconomic groups has been reported for many European countries. For most countries, it is unknown whether this widening has continued into the first decade of the 21st century. METHODS:We collected an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackenbach JP,Kulhánová I,Menvielle G,Bopp M,Borrell C,Costa G,Deboosere P,Esnaola S,Kalediene R,Kovacs K,Leinsalu M,Martikainen P,Regidor E,Rodriguez-Sanz M,Strand BH,Hoffmann R,Eikemo TA,Östergren O,Lundberg O,Eur

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic screening of death certificates referable to residents of two health districts covered by a psychiatric case register allows the study of excess mortality in unselected psychiatric patients from a defined area of known population. Deaths among the case register patients exceeded those expected by 80%; the r...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hassall C,Prior P,Cross KW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to quantify the difference in precision of risk estimates in epidemiology between the situations where misclassification of exposure is corrected for by external validation and where it is corrected for by internal repeat measurement. Precision was measured in terms of the expected width of ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Duffy SW,Maximovitch DM,Day NE

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI; ICD9-CM 410*) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world, and its community surveillance is essential to monitor variation in the occurrence of the disease. Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s more sensitive and specific biomarkers of myocardial ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barchielli A,Balzi D,Naldoni P,Roberts AT,Profili F,Dima F,Palmieri L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to synthesise findings on the salutogenic concept, sense of coherence (SOC), and its correlation with quality of life (QoL). This study is descriptive and analytic, with a systematic integration of the contemporary knowledge base on the salutogenic research published in 1992-2003. This review ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Eriksson M,Lindström B

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of consanguinity on children's health. DESIGN:The study is a prospective survey from birth to five years of a cohort of babies born in a multiracial community. This report details the initial findings on consanguinity. SETTING:Participating familie...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bundey S,Alam H,Kaur A,Mir S,Lancashire RJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:In many countries, cancer registries cover only a small part of the national population. Cancer incidence for the rest of the country has therefore to be estimated. This can be done from mortality data using the relation between incidence and mortality observed in the cancer registry areas. Such an appr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Colonna M,Grosclaude P,Faivre J,Revzani A,Arveux P,Chaplain G,Tretarre B,Launoy G,Lesec'h JM,Raverdy N,Schaffer P,Buémi A,Ménégoz F,Black RJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparison of trends in ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in different social classes is confounded by historical changes in diagnostic techniques and statistical classification, and possibly by different standards of diagnostic accuracy in the different social classes. The problems can be circumvented by ta...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Halliday ML,Anderson TW

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether people with more positive attitudes to ageing are biologically younger as defined by leucocyte telomere length, accelerated DNA methylation GrimAge (AgeAccelGrim) and brain-predicted age difference, and whether these biomarkers explain relationships between attitudes to ageing and morta...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McLachlan KJJ,Cole JH,Harris SE,Marioni RE,Deary IJ,Gale CR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not a point of debate that the Stockholm Convention for the prevention of further accumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) should be ratified and implemented by all countries. However, in their article, Schafer and Kegley present an unbalanced "worst case scenario". Approximately 20% of the food supp...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Damstra T,Page SW,Herrman JL,Meredith T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is increasingly shaped by powerful global forces, many of which have consequences for human health and the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health are increasingly determined at a supranational level. As a result, local or national level efforts to influence health determinants can ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McKee M,Gilmore AB,Schwalbe N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an ongoing debate on whether analyses of occupational studies should be adjusted for socioeconomic status (SES). In this paper directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) were used to evaluate common scenarios in occupational cancer studies with the aim of clarifying this issue. It was assumed that the occupational exposu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Richiardi L,Barone-Adesi F,Merletti F,Pearce N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Innovative strategies beyond the health system are required to reduce the prevalence of smoking. Early child development interventions are examples of interventions that can help set children on positive social and educational trajectories, which in turn may also reduce the prevalence of smoking. The aim of ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： D'Onise K,Lynch JW,McDermott RA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mental distress may entail increased risk of hip fracture, but it is uncertain whether the effect consists solely of an indirect effect through use of medication, or whether it is also mediated through other mechanism. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between mental distress and risk o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Forsén L,Meyer HE,Søgaard AJ,Naess S,Schei B,Edna TH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vitamin D has been suggested to have a role in infection defence and on the immune system. We therefore investigated the effect of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D₃ (25(OH)D₃) on the risk of incident hospitalised pneumonia in an ageing general population in eastern Finland. METHODS:The study population included 72...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Aregbesola A,Voutilainen S,Nurmi T,Virtanen JK,Ronkainen K,Tuomainen TP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The death of a young child is so devastating that it can increase the risk of mortality in the grieving parent. Little is known about the impact of an adult child's death on the health of parents. METHODS:The authors conducted a follow-up study between 1980 and 2002 based on a linked-registers database that...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rostila M,Saarela J,Kawachi I

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the short term effect of air pollution on cardiovascular admissions in 14 Spanish cities METHODS:The period under study was from 1995 to 1999. Daily emergency admissions for all cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and heart diseases (HD) were obtained from hospital records, and the corresponding daily ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ballester F,Rodríguez P,Iñíguez C,Saez M,Daponte A,Galán I,Taracido M,Arribas F,Bellido J,Cirarda FB,Cañada A,Guillén JJ,Guillén-Grima F,López E,Pérez-Hoyos S,Lertxundi A,Toro S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare health walks, a community based lay-led walking scheme versus advice only on physical activity and cardiovascular health status in middle aged adults. DESIGN:Randomised controlled trial with one year follow up. Physical activity was measured by questionnaire. Other measures included attitude...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lamb SE,Bartlett HP,Ashley A,Bird W

更新日期：2002-04-01 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