The use of expensive technologies instead of simple, sound and effective lifestyle interventions: a perpetual delusion.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN:This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. T...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Avilés LA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted at the paediatric emergency department of a tertiary care teaching and referral hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan to assess the morbidity and mortality pattern of illness in paediatric population. Afghanistan has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, and there is complete breakd...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Prasad AN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has demonstrated associations between smoking and reading skills, but other literacy skills such as speaking, listening and numeracy are less studied despite our dependence on the use of numbers and the oral exchange to deliver information on the risks of smoking. METHODS:The authors used multivari...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Martin LT,Haas A,Schonlau M,Derose KP,Rosenfeld L,Rudd R,Buka SL

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to investigate whether the survival of women with cancer of the uterine cervix is associated with their marital status and social class. DESIGN:The study was a survey of survival up to 5 years from diagnosis of women with cancer of the cervix registered in the South Thames Cancer Registry, ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murphy M,Goldblatt P,Thornton-Jones H,Silcocks P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modifications in working conditions can accommodate changing needs of chronically ill persons. The self-employed may have more possibilities than employees to modify their working conditions. We investigate how working conditions change following diagnosis of chronic disease for employed and self-employed ol...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fleischmann M,Carr E,Xue B,Zaninotto P,Stansfeld SA,Stafford M,Head J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prompted by my participation in the People's Climate March held in New York City on 21 September 2014, as part of the 'Harvard Divest' contingent, in this brief essay I reflect on the late 20th century development of--and debates over--the necessity of ecological thinking in epidemiology, and also the still limited en...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Krieger N

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Globally, there are over 24 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have fled their homes due to violence and insecurity but who remain within their own country. There have been up to 2 million IDPs in northern Uganda alone. The objective of this study was to investigate factors associated with menta...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Roberts B,Felix Ocaka K,Browne J,Oyok T,Sondorp E

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. DESIGN:Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in three time periods: 1990-1991, before the recession; 1993, worst slump during the recession; and 1993-1997, a period after change...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Vahtera J,Kivimäki M,Pentti J,Theorell T

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the completion rate, internal reliability, and external validity of a home affluence scale based on adolescents' reports of material circumstances in the home as a measure of family socioeconomic status. DESIGN:Cross sectional survey. SETTING:Data were collected from a school based study in...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wardle J,Robb K,Johnson F

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To raise compliance in a general practice based colorectal cancer screening programme by the use of a simple health educational leaflet. DESIGN:A randomised controlled trial of the leaflet's effect on completion of faecal occult blood tests. The leaflet explained the high frequency of colorectal cancer, the ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hart AR,Barone TL,Gay SP,Inglis A,Griffin L,Tallon CA,Mayberry JF

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policies to increase Australian Indigenous children's participation in preschool aim to reduce developmental inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. This study aims to understand the benefits of preschool participation by quantifying the association between preschool participation in the y...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Falster K,Hanly M,Edwards B,Banks E,Lynch JW,Eades S,Nickel N,Goldfeld S,Biddle N

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bambra C,Riordan R,Ford J,Matthews F

更新日期：2020-11-01 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:Active ageing is a key to healthy ageing; shopping behaviour is an economically relevant activity of the elderly. METHODS:Analysis was based on the NAHSIT 1999-2000 dataset. A total of 1841 representative free-living elderly Taiwanese people were selected and information included demographics, socioeconomic...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chang YH,Chen RC,Wahlqvist ML,Lee MS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In India, excess female under-5 mortality is well documented. Under-5 mortality is also known to be patterned by socioeconomic factors. This study examines sex differentials and sex-specific wealth gradients in neonatal, postneonatal and child mortality in India. METHODS:Repeated cross-sectional study of na...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Karlsson O,Kim R,Joe W,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:The Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011 had a short-term influence on the increase in emergency department visits and hospital admissions due to various diseases. However, it remains unclear whether the earthquake and tsunami disaster affected the long-ter...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sasabuchi Y,Matsui H,Yasunaga H,Fushimi K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to estimate the health and social costs of tobacco use in Ontario, Canada. DESIGN:This was a cost-benefit analysis based on cross sectional data in 1988, stratified by age and sex, using an attributable risk model. The total cost of the consequences of tobacco use in the society includ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Choi BC,Pak AW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore attitudes to quitting smoking and experience of smoking cessation among Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic minority communities. DESIGN:Qualitative study using community participatory methods, purposeful sampling, interviews and focus groups, and a grounded approach to data generation and analysis. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： White M,Bush J,Kai J,Bhopal R,Rankin J

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：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：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：BACKGROUND:Stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates declined in Europe between 2004 and 2010. We hypothesised that declines might be greater for countries with higher mortality in 2004 and disproportionally affect very preterm infants at highest risk. METHODS:Data about live births, stillbirths and neonatal deaths by g...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Zeitlin J,Mortensen L,Cuttini M,Lack N,Nijhuis J,Haidinger G,Blondel B,Hindori-Mohangoo AD,Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee.

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the current temporal trends of suicide in Zhejiang, China, from 2006 to 2016 to determine possible health disparities in order to establish priorities for intervention. METHODS:We collected mortality surveillance data from 2006 to 2016 from the Zhejiang Chronic Disease Surveillance Informati...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fei F,Liu H,I Leuba S,Li Y,Hu R,Yu M,Pan J,Zhong J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Avoidable Mortality (AM) describes causes of death that should not occur in the presence of high-quality and timely medical treatment and from causes that can be influenced at least in part by public policy/behaviour. This study analyses black-white disparities in AM. METHODS:Mortality under age 65 was anal...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Macinko J,Elo IT

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The use of mortality data in the form of standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to measure the need for health care resources in the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP) formula in England has been criticised for underestimating the wider effects of adverse socioeconomic conditions on need, particularly in inner cit...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mays N,Chinn S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examines the contribution of lifetime smoking habit to the socioeconomic gradient in all-cause and smoking-related mortality and in cardiovascular incidence in two countries. METHODS:10,600 men aged 50-59 years were examined in 1991-4 in centres in Northern Ireland and France and followed annuall...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Yarnell JW,Patterson CC,Arveiler D,Amouyel P,Ferrières J,Woodside JV,Haas B,Montaye M,Ruidavets JB,Kee F,Evans A,Bingham A,Ducimetière P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00