Is the human sex ratio at birth a sentinel health indicator that is associated with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevalences in the 21st century?

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: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:It is commonly believed that nature has positive impacts on children's health, including physical, mental and social dimensions. This review focuses on how accessibility to, exposure to and engagement with nature affects the mental health of children and teenagers. METHODS:Ten academic databases were used t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tillmann S,Tobin D,Avison W,Gilliland J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined the causal relationship between transport mode and body mass index (BMI). METHODS:We examined between-person differences and within-person changes in BMI by transport mode over four time points between 2007 and 2013. Data were from the How Areas in Brisbane Influence HealTh and AcT...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Turrell G,Hewitt BA,Rachele JN,Giles-Corti B,Busija L,Brown WJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Injuries are an increasing child health concern and have become a leading cause of child mortality in the 1-4 years age group in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. METHODS:Household observations during 9 months of a community-based pilot of two supervision tools-a door barrier and a playpen-de...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Callaghan JA,Hyder AA,Khan R,Blum LS,Arifeen S,Baqui AH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing concern about the global burden of child mental health disorders has generated an increased interest in population-level efforts to improve child mental health. This in turn has led to a shift in emphasis away from treatment of established disorders and towards prevention and promotion. Prevention efforts are ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kvalsvig A,O'Connor M,Redmond G,Goldfeld S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To describe the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in patients with sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and to determine the role of sexual transmission of HBV infection in Singapore. DESIGN:A cross sectional study of all consecutive men p...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Heng BH,Goh KT,Chan R,Chew SK,Doraisingham S,Quek GH

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the article by Starfield and colleagues, it was suggested that the concept of prevention has gone astray. This article aims to extend their ideas. METHODS:Our methods are to take the Starfield et al article and argue that it is possible and useful to see prevention in a wider context, going beyond preven...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ataguba JE,Mooney G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of deprivation, crowding, maternal smoking, and breast feeding on morbidity from wheeze and diarrhoea in the first six months after birth. DESIGN:A geographically located population survey using maternal responses on self completion questionnaires. SETTING:The three health distri...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Baker D,Taylor H,Henderson J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:It is generally acknowledged that conventional estimates of the potential number of life years to be gained by elimination of causes of death are too generous. This is because these estimates fail to take into account the fact that those who are saved from the cause are likely to have one or more other condi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackenbach JP,Kunst AE,Lautenbach H,Oei YB,Bijlsma F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent authors have suggested that cross-sectional studies of adverse outcome of pregnancy are misleading, and that the only valid method of analysis controls for eventual number of pregnancies. The present study shows, by simple examples, that such a method produces results that cannot be interpreted in the way claim...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Golding J,Butler NR,Newcombe RG

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine material and behavioural factors as explanations for occupational class differences in health, while taking into account the interrelations between these two groups of factors. METHODS:Data from cross sectional surveys among middle aged women and men employed by the City of Helsinki (n = 6062, res...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Laaksonen M,Roos E,Rahkonen O,Martikainen P,Lahelma E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine how likely parents would be to contribute to strategies to reduce pedestrian injury risks and how much they valued such interventions. DESIGN:A single referendum willingness to pay survey. Each parent was randomised to respond to one of five requested contributions towards each of the foll...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bishai D,Mahoney P,DeFrancesco S,Guyer B,Carlson Gielen A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to quantify mortality after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in England, and to compare English case fatality rates (CFRs) with those reported in the literature. PATIENTS AND METHODS:English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for the financial years 1998/9 to 200...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Filipovic M,Goldacre MJ,Gill L

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the risk factors associated with fracture of the distal forearm, and to evaluate the influence of falls on these risks. DESIGN:This was a case-control study. SETTING:Manchester, UK. PARTICIPANTS:The cases were 62 white women aged 45-82 years who had sustained a fracture of the distal forearm a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： O'Neill TW,Marsden D,Adams JE,Silman AJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:The outlook for patients with lung cancer is poor, so an accurate estimation of prognosis will underpin treatment decisions and allow patients to make personal plans for the future. However, evidence suggests that there is a variation between doctors in their predictions of outcomes and also they tend to be over-optim...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kee F,Owen T,Leathem R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the findings of this study is that regional variations in the infant mortality rates of Sri Lanka are large, ranging from 26 per 1000 live births in Jaffna to 91 per 1000 in Nuwara Eliya, a tea estate district. These differences are more strongly associated with regional variations in environmental determinants...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Patel M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a house-to-house study of 994 urban Zulus the prevalence of hypertension according to WHO criteria was 25% (23% men, 27% women). In a rural Zulu study of 987 the prevalence age corrected to the urban distribution was 9.4% (8.7% men, 10% women). Thus there was a pronounced difference between the prevalence of hypert...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Seedat YK,Seedat MA,Hackland DB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Examine trends in home smoking restrictions among employed women not living alone and assess the associations of such restrictions with smoking behaviour. DESIGN:Multivariate logistic regression analysis of major demographic variables and household composition characteristics. STUDY PARTICIPANTS:128 0...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Shopland DR,Anderson CM,Burns DM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among different ethnic groups and the influence of deprivation on the prevalence of diabetes among Māori and New Zealand Europeans was investigated. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional survey on all patients registered with 10 practices in the Rotorua General Practice Gro...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Joshy G,Porter T,Le Lievre C,Lane J,Williams M,Lawrenson R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Rose Angina Questionnaire (RAQ) was constructed in the 1960s for assessing the population burden of angina. Studies have found that screening positivity by RAQ conferred an elevated risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is, however, not clear to what extent Rose angina represents early CHD in relative...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Graff-Iversen S,Wilsgaard T,Mathiesen EB,Njølstad I,Løchen ML

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined whether living in rented housing is associated with increased all-cause and cause-specific mortality, and whether the association between home ownership and mortality can be explained by household income, occupational class, and educational level. METHODS:A random sample including every ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Laaksonen M,Martikainen P,Nihtilä E,Rahkonen O,Lahelma E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To empirically test the impact of dietary intake at several time points in childhood on children's school attainment and to investigate whether any differences in school attainment between children who ate packed lunches or school meals was due to who these children were, their pre-school dietary patterns, o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Feinstein L,Sabates R,Sorhaindo A,Rogers I,Herrick D,Northstone K,Emmett P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To perform the first European overview of educational inequalities in the use of blood pressure and cholesterol screening. METHODS:Data were obtained on the use of screening services according to educational level from nationally representative cross-sectional surveys in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Es...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rodin D,Stirbu I,Ekholm O,Dzurova D,Costa G,Mackenbach JP,Kunst AE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is important to understand the local burden of non-communicable diseases including within-country heterogeneity. The aim of this study was to characterise hypertension and type-2 diabetes profiles across different Peruvian geographical settings emphasising the assessment of modifiable risk factors. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

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

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00