Seven caveats on the use of low birthweight and related indicators in health research.

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：BACKGROUND:The Smokefree Class Competition, the largest school-based smoking prevention programme in Europe, aims to create a class climate that denormalises smoking. An analysis was carried out to assess whether it increases bullying or perception of isolation. METHODS:A cluster randomised controlled trial was conduc...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hanewinkel R,Isensee B,Maruska K,Sargent JD,Morgenstern M

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Progressing public policies that improve health equity requires understanding and addressing the creation, use and distribution of power. This glossary provides an overview of some of the most relevant conceptualisations of the dynamics of power in policy with implications for health equity. The aim is to provide an a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Harris P,Baum F,Friel S,Mackean T,Schram A,Townsend B

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population-based cancer registry data on patients with cervical cancer in Finland and South Wales in 1960--69 were analysed for survival. Patients with carcinoma-in-situ experienced essentially the normal life expectancy. Those with invasive carcinoma experienced 75% of normal post-registration life expectancy in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hakama M,West R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have examined the effects of sample selection on the exposure-outcome association estimates in cohort studies, but the reasons why this selection may induce bias have not been fully explored. AIMS:To investigate how sample selection of the web-based NINFEA birth cohort may change the confoun...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pizzi C,De Stavola BL,Pearce N,Lazzarato F,Ghiotti P,Merletti F,Richiardi L

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the United Kingdom on childhood leukaemia and childhood cancer in twins and from the United States on leukaemia in twins are analysed by a new method. The method distinguishes determinants occurring before the stage of pregnancy corresponding with the cleavage of MZ pairs, from determinants occurring after t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Knox EG,Marshall T,Barling R

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the degree to which the proportion of homicides and suicides committed with a gun is associated with reported availability of firearms across Chicago neighbourhoods. METHODS:Data were collected as part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), a combined neighbourhood ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Shenassa ED,Daskalakis C,Buka SL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of growth during infancy and childhood on blood pressure in adolescence. DESIGN:Birth cohort study. SETTING:Pelotas, southern Brazil. PARTICIPANTS:749 adolescents with complete information on birth weight and gestational age, as well as on anthropometric data at all three follow up vis...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Horta BL,Barros FC,Victora CG,Cole TJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In observational studies, mainly from Western Caucasian populations, moderate alcohol use has been shown to be associated with a lower risk of diabetes. However, whether the protection is due to the attributes of alcohol or to those of moderate alcohol users is difficult to disentangle. A population with a d...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Schooling CM,Jiang CQ,Lam TH,Zhang WS,Cheng KK,Leung GM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D deficiency occurs worldwide. Winter season and high Body Mass Index (BMI) are associated with low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). We estimated the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a Norwegian adult population and examined factors associated with vitamin D deficiency. A cohort of 25, 616 a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Larose TL,Chen Y,Camargo CA Jr,Langhammer A,Romundstad P,Mai XM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to test a large set of childhood leukaemia and lymphoma registrations for the presence of short radius spacial clusters. DESIGN:The study was a geographical cluster analysis. SETTING:England, Wales and Scotland. PATIENTS:All registrations for leukaemia and lymphoma between 1966 and 1983 i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Knox EG,Gilman E

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-five people aged 65 and over in the Birmingham area who fell at home were followed up for one year after the fall had been reported by the general practitioner. They were compared with 125 control subjects matched for age and sex and drawn from the same doctors' lists. Two months after the fall,...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wild D,Nayak US,Isaacs B

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinatal mortality rates of mothers who delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital from 1969 to 1976 have been examined. The rate in the West Indian population was significant higher than in the United Kingdom white population. The increased West Indian mortality was confined to infants with a birth weight of more than 2...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Robinson MJ,Palmer SR,Avery A,James CE,Beynon JL,Taylor RW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between neighbourhood income inequality and depression, both overall and among those with different levels of income, in the post-disaster context. DESIGN:A representative cross sectional random digit dial telephone survey was conducted. SETTING:New York City (NYC) six month...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ahern J,Galea S

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This paper addresses the environmental justice implications of children's health by exploring racial/ethnic disparities in potential exposure to air pollution, based on both school and home locations of children and three different types of pollution sources, in Orange County, Florida, USA. METHODS:Usi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chakraborty J,Zandbergen PA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey in a London borough showed that 15% of adults living at home were restricted in one or more areas of their lives because of illness. A sample of these adults aged 25 to 75 years was interviewed using a validated medical questionnaire, and the severity of their restrictions was also assessed using a separate i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Peach H,Charlton JR

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence of racial/ethnic inequalities in tobacco outlet density is limited by: (1) reliance on studies from single counties or states, (2) limited attention to spatial dependence, and (3) an unclear theory-based relationship between neighbourhood composition and tobacco outlet density. METHODS:In 97 counti...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lee JG,Sun DL,Schleicher NM,Ribisl KM,Luke DA,Henriksen L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to audit, against agreed standards, the control of bacterial meningitis, in particular completeness of notification and appropriateness of distribution of chemoprophylaxis to contacts; and to implement appropriate changes and monitor their impact. DESIGN:The first phase involved determinati...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Harvey I,Kaul S,Peters TJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse childhood socioeconomic conditions (SECs) in early life are associated with poor outcomes across the life course. However, the complex interrelationships between childhood SECs and ACEs are unclear, as are the consequences for health outcomes beyond child...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Straatmann VS,Lai E,Law C,Whitehead M,Strandberg-Larsen K,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:The debate on health selection which describes the influence of health on subsequent social mobility is highly contested. The authors set out to examine the effect of health selection by looking at the effect of previous health status on changes in socio-economic position (SEP) over two time periods. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ki M,Sacker A,Kelly Y,Nazroo J

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have a markedly higher overall mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), as well as many other causes of death like cancer. Since diabetes is a multisystem disease, this fact together with the increased lifespan among individuals with diabetes may also lead to the emer...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Niskanen L,Partonen T,Auvinen A,Haukka J

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence of cancer among homeless men in Glasgow. DESIGN:Descriptive study of cancer incidence in a defined, though individually unidentifiable, population cohort. SETTING:Glasgow and the West of Scotland Region. PARTICIPANTS:Male residents of 10 hostels for the single homeless in G...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lamont DW,Toal FM,Crawford M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure the geographical variation in prevalence of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and their control in a nationally representative sample of older British women. METHODS:Baseline survey using general practitioner record review, a self completed questionnaire, research nurse interview, and physica...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lawlor DA,Bedford C,Taylor M,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Injuries have been recognised as important public health concerns, particularly among adolescents and young adults. Few studies have examined injuries using a multilevel perspective that addresses individual socioeconomic status (SES) and health behaviours and local socioeconomic conditions in early adolesce...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Schmidt S,Sparks PJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

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:This study examined the prevalence of body dissatisfaction as a function of individual level and neighbourhood level indicators of affluence. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING:A subset of data from a larger random digit dialling telephone survey was used to obtain individual level data on body dissatisfaction, ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McLaren L,Gauvin L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urban green spaces have been linked to different health benefits, but longitudinal studies on the effect of green spaces on mental health are sparse and evidence often inconclusive. Our objective was to study the effect of changes in green spaces in the residential environment on changes in mental health usi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Noordzij JM,Beenackers MA,Oude Groeniger J,Van Lenthe FJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00