Comparison of individual-level versus area-level socioeconomic measures in assessing health outcomes of children in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

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：:The incidence of malignant melanoma in developed countries has been rising rapidly in recent years. Its causes and the reasons for this trend are uncertain. Changes in histopathological criteria for classifying pigmented skin lesions could explain the rising incidence rates. With support from the International Agency ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Philipp R,Hastings A,Briggs J,Sizer J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study investigated the impact of the Healthy Housing Programme in reducing acute hospitalisations in South Auckland, New Zealand. The programme involved house modifications to reduce overcrowding, insulation and ventilation improvements, and health and social service assessments, referrals and linkages....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jackson G,Thornley S,Woolston J,Papa D,Bernacchi A,Moore T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of data on the national population-level effectiveness of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in high-HIV-prevalence, resource-limited settings. We assessed national PMTCT impact in South Africa (SA), 2010. METHODS:A facility-based survey was conducted using a strat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Goga AE,Dinh TH,Jackson DJ,Lombard C,Delaney KP,Puren A,Sherman G,Woldesenbet S,Ramokolo V,Crowley S,Doherty T,Chopra M,Shaffer N,Pillay Y,South Africa PMTCT Evaluation Team.

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the geographical variation in self perceived morbidity in the south west of England, and assess the associations with rurality and social deprivation. DESIGN:A geographically based cross sectional study using 1991 census data on premature Limiting Long Term Illness (LLTI). The urban-rural an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barnett S,Roderick P,Martin D,Diamond I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence on the role of cannabis as a gateway drug is inconsistent. We characterise patterns of cannabis use among UK teenagers aged 13-18 years, and assess their influence on problematic substance use at age 21 years. METHODS:We used longitudinal latent class analysis to derive trajectories of cannabis use...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Taylor M,Collin SM,Munafò MR,MacLeod J,Hickman M,Heron J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliable data on clinical biomarkers are necessary in order to assess the health risks of populations and especially in assessing long-term trends related to disease incidence. METHODS:Ten European laboratories participated in a two-phase quality control exercise of total cholesterol (TC) and high-density l...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Alfthan G,Sundvall J,Råman L,Kuulasmaa K,Tolonen H,European Health Examination Survey Pilot Project.

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of six income types (household post-government income, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-weighted household post-government income, individual net income, corrected monthly household income and household net income from wages) on subjective health were compared in order to exa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Geyer S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore the role of history in public health and its relevance to current practice and professional development. DESIGN:An analysis of the issues surrounding the poor attention paid to the history of public health by its current practitioners. SETTING:The paper is written from the perspective of pr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Scally G,Womack J

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：:Social position is known to play a role in the quality of ageing, notably through the stimulation/dysregulation of key physiological systems in response to external stresses. Using data from one wave of Understanding Society including 9088 participants, we defined, as an extension of the allostatic load, a synthetic B...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Karimi M,Castagné R,Delpierre C,Albertus G,Berger E,Vineis P,Kumari M,Kelly-Irving M,Chadeau-Hyam M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:A statistical test that allows for adjustment of confounding can be helpful for the study of seasonal patterns. The aim of this article is to supply a detailed description of such a method. An example of its application is given. DESIGN:A statistical test is presented that retains the information on th...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Stolwijk AM,Straatman H,Zielhuis GA

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the value of psychosocial risk factors in discriminating between individuals at higher and lower risk of coronary heart disease, using risk prediction equations. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Scotland. PARTICIPANTS:5191 employed men aged 35 to 64 years and free of coronary heart...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Macleod J,Metcalfe C,Smith GD,Hart C

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the relative importance of perceived health and health related lifestyle in adolescence in the production of educational differences. DESIGN:A longitudinal study: survey data from 1981 and 1985 linked with Educational Registry data from 1993. SETTING:The whole of Finland. PARTICIPANTS:A represent...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Koivusilta L,Rimpelä A,Rimpelä M

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Many economic factors are associated with diet, yet the evidence is generally cross-sectional. Older people are considered especially vulnerable to poor diets from negative changes to varied economic factors. This review extends current knowledge on known correlates to decipher actual economic deter...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Conklin AI,Maguire ER,Monsivais P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare a self administered computerised assessment of neurotic psychiatric disorder (psychiatric morbidity) with an identical assessment administered by a human interviewer. In particular, to discover whether a computerised assessment overestimates or underestimates the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lewis G

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All residents of England aged 60 years and older became entitled to free travel on local buses on 1 April 2006. This study examines the impact of this policy on public transport use, a mode of active transport and levels of obesity. METHODS:Logistic regression analyses using three waves of data (2004, 2006 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Webb E,Netuveli G,Millett C

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To study the association between own education, adult and parental circumstances and the risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country. DESIGN:Population based case-control study. SETTING:General population of five districts of the Czech Republic in the age group 25-64 years. PARTICIPANTS:Ran...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bobák M,Hertzman C,Skodová Z,Marmot M

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:The relation between blood pressure and subsequent stroke was examined in a four-year follow-up study of a geographically defined population sample of 2704 people aged 65 and over resident in South Tyneside in 1975. In men there was a significant relation between stroke and a history of diagnosed high blood pressure a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Evans JG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the UK, overall stroke mortality has declined. A similar trend has been seen in coronary heart disease, although recent reports suggest this decline might be levelling off in middle-aged adults. AIM:To investigate recent trends in stroke mortality among those aged 40-69 years in England. METHODS:The aut...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sutton CJ,Marsden J,Watkins CL,Leathley MJ,Dey P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Home Office has recently published estimates which, for the first time, provide a "robust national estimate" of the number of problematic drug users in England. The 2004/05 and 2005/06 estimates are the highest estimates ever produced for England and coincide with the highest ever government annual expen...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Frisher M,Forsyth A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1998, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) was widespread, but the diffusion of these life-saving treatments was not uniform. As half of all AIDS patients in the USA have Medicaid coverage, this study of a multistate Medicaid claims dataset was undertaken to assess disparities in the rates of HAAR...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： King WD,Minor P,Ramirez Kitchen C,Oré LE,Shoptaw S,Victorianne GD,Rust G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association of sexual problems with social, physical, and psychological problems. DESIGN:An anonymous postal questionnaire survey. SETTING:Four general practices in England. PARTICIPANTS:789 men and 979 women responding to a questionnaire sent to a stratified random sample of the a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dunn KM,Croft PR,Hackett GI

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Mortality risk is lower in married than in unmarried men and women. However, little is known about the association between mortality and relationship status in South Africa where marriage rates are low, migration is common, many couples are not co-resident and HIV prevalence is high. METHOD:Using demographi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Channon M,Hosegood V,McGrath N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00