Family building in parents with Down's syndrome children.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lifestyle factors in combination have been hypothesised to be associated with the prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and mortality among individuals with T2D. The aim was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the association between lifestyle indices and incident T2D as well as mort...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Schlesinger S,Neuenschwander M,Ballon A,Nöthlings U,Barbaresko J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although trouble sleeping is a common problem among women at mid-life, patterns in trouble sleeping relating to social and health-related risk factors are unclear. This analysis describes the dynamics of trouble sleeping among women at mid-life. METHODS:The National Survey of Health and Development is a nat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tom SE,Kuh D,Guralnik JM,Mishra GD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population based programme to educate women in breast self-examination (BSE) was organised as part of the UK Trial of Early Detection of Breast Cancer. Women who responded to an invitation to a meeting were educated in groups and were not routinely screened. Open access clinics offered x ray and clinical examination...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Flaherty C,Philip J,Harris WG,Joslin CA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few longitudinal data on physical activity patterns from mid-life into older age. The authors examined associations of self-reported physical activity, adiposity and socio-demographic factors in mid-life with objectively assessed measures of activity in older age. METHODS:Participants were 394 hea...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hamer M,Kivimaki M,Steptoe A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Housing is an important environmental influence on population health, and there is growing evidence of health effects from indoor environment characteristics such as low indoor temperatures. However, there is relatively little research, and thus little firm guidance, on the cost-effectiveness of public polic...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chapman R,Howden-Chapman P,Viggers H,O'Dea D,Kennedy M

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate and evaluate published data on cost effectiveness of cholesterol lowering interventions, and how this information could be interpreted in a rational approach of cholesterol management in general practice. DESIGN:A systematic review of the literature. SETTING:No restriction on setting. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： van der Weijden T,Knottnerus JA,Ament AJ,Stoffers HE,Grol RP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a new programme designed to reduce disease burden to the individual and economic burden to the society of common mental health problems (CMHP). This is the first study to look at the impact of IAPT on health service utilisation and sickness absence using ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： de Lusignan S,Chan T,Parry G,Dent-Brown K,Kendrick T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight hundred and ninety-nine men were studied, aged 16-65 inclusive, who underwent an elective inguinal herniorrhaphy during 1970 and 1971 in eight hospitals in Wessex, and under nine consultant surgeons. There was a significant variation in postoperative inpatient stay and total sickness absence between hospitals an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Griffiths M,Oblin ME,Acheson ED

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the worldwide trend towards more time being spent at work by employed people, few studies have examined the independent influences of work-based versus home-based social networks on employees' health. We examined the association between work-based social networks and health status by controlling for ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Suzuki E,Takao S,Subramanian SV,Doi H,Kawachi I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to explore the impact of mid-life income and old-age pensions on the risk of mortality in later life. Furthermore, the study explored whether income inequalities in old-age mortality can be explained by differences in early childhood development, social class during childhood, educa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fors S,Modin B,Koupil I,Vågerö D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand school boys aged 8 to 16 were examined for their somatotype, physical growth, sexual maturation, and smoking habits. Fifty-two boys were found to be smokers, of whom 30 were regularly smoking between two and 20 bidis or cigarettes a day for a mean duration of 2.5 years. The mean height and weight of the s...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lall KB,Singhi S,Gurnani M,Singhi P,Garg OP

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although exposure to peer and family violence is a documented risk factor for adolescent dating violence, less is known about the relationship between violent crime exposure and dating violence victimisation. METHODS:Participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 4794) aged 13-17 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Spriggs AL,Halpern CT,Martin SL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the association between physical neighbourhood stressors and smoking, and the contribution of these stressors to neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic inequalities in smoking. METHODS:Data were analysed of participants of the baseline measurement of the Dutch GLOBE study (1991), aged 20 years...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： van Lenthe FJ,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate associations between measures of neighbourhood social and material environment and self rated health. DESIGN:New contextual measures added to cross sectional study of a sample of people from the Health Survey for England and the Scottish Health Survey to provide multilevel data. PARTICIPANTS...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cummins S,Stafford M,Macintyre S,Marmot M,Ellaway A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV incidence estimates are crucial in understanding and predicting the HIV/AIDS epidemic and identifying sub-populations and regions most at risk for the epidemic. However, incidence estimation is a challenge due to the nature of the disease and type of data available. This paper aims to present a simple an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rajan SS,Sokal D

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is concern about the health of populations living close to nuclear waste reprocessing plants. A comparative study was conducted on reproductive life events in the general population living near the nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Beaumont-Hague, France and a reference area in Brittany. DESIGN, SETT...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Slama R,Boutou O,Ducot B,Spira A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether or not, and how, health inequalities change throughout older age is currently under debate. The goal of this study was to assess the net impact of education, occupational class, income and wealth on frailty trajectories among older adults in Continental Europe. METHODS:We modelled frailty index traj...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Stolz E,Mayerl H,Waxenegger A,Rásky É,Freidl W

更新日期：2017-01-01 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: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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate a community wide outbreak of hepatitis A (HA). DESIGN:Description of the outbreak, with a case-control study to assess transmission. SETTING:A Florida county, USA, 1988-9. SUBJECTS:A total of 311 cases of HA. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:A 13 month outbreak of HA is described. Most o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Desenclos JC,MacLafferty L

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ecological perspective on health emphasises both individual and contextual systems and the interdependent relations between the two. Origins of this approach have emanated from multiple disciplines over the past century or more. This article provides a glossary of perspectives, processes, and settings that pertain ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McLaren L,Hawe P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the validity of a self administered physical activity questionnaire to be used as part of a screening device for postmenopausal osteopaenia (with additional questions on medical history and calcium intake). DESIGN:A questionnaire was posted to 86 perimenopausal women to enquire about weekl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Suleiman S,Nelson M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing research points towards physical and mental health gains from housing improvements, but findings are inconsistent and often not statistically significant. The detailed characteristics and variability of housing improvement works are problematic and studies are often small, not experimental, with sho...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Curl A,Kearns A,Mason P,Egan M,Tannahill C,Ellaway A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two main theoretical models have been used to assess the impact of psychosocial work factors on blood pressure (BP): the demand-control (DC) model and the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) model. Previous studies have mostly used a single time point exposure to examine this association. OBJECTIVE:To examine the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Trudel X,Brisson C,Milot A,Masse B,Vézina M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To see whether the community mothers' programme, using lay volunteer mothers to deliver a childhood development programme, could be extended successfully to the travelling community in Ireland. DESIGN:This was a prospective study of the travelling community; comparisons were made with results of a prev...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fitzpatrick P,Molloy B,Johnson Z

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant mortality rates vary from area to area. Part of this variation is due to the socioeconomic characteristics of the area and part to other factors including the obstetric, paediatric, and community health services. Four social indicators associated with infant deaths are used to control for some of the variations...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bradshaw J,Edwards H,Lawton D,Staden F,Weale J,Weekes A

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:Socioeconomic differentials in the uptake of medical care in men were investigated using data from the General Household Survey (1974-76 and 1979-80). Hospitalisation, attendance at out patient clinics, and consultation with doctors were higher in local authority tenants than in owner occupiers. Men belonging to the m...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Balarajan R,Yuen P,Machin D

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00