Associations of literacy with diabetes indicators in older adults.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Promoting walking and cycling as a part of everyday activity is seen as a strategy for tackling obesity and chronic disease. Policy needs to be based on evidence about people's views of walking and cycling as well as effects of interventions. METHODS:Studies of the views of children, young people and parent...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lorenc T,Brunton G,Oliver S,Oliver K,Oakley A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed. Multilevel or contextual analyses of social factors and health represent a possible reconciliation between two divergent ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pickett KE,Pearl M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to increased risk of hypertension, a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. How the risk is altered by intergenerational social mobility is not well known. The aim of this study is to investigate parental SES, adult SES and the intergenerational social mo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Högberg L,Cnattingius S,Lundholm C,Sparén P,Iliadou AN

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 1960s notification rates for tuberculosis in England and Wales for the whole population have been influenced by high rates in certain ethnic groups. Using data based on country of birth from the British (Thoracic and) Tuberculosis Association surveys of 1965 and 1971, and based on ethnic origin from th...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Springett VH,Darbyshire JH,Nunn AJ,Sutherland I

更新日期：1988-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:In Italy the law on industrial risk has emphasised the necessity of building a local information process to answer people's questions on safety and provide greater community participation in risk management. The aim of this research is to analyse the local population's ideas and expectations of a participator...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mereu A,Sardu C,Minerba L,Sotgiu A,Contu P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Knowledge about changes in wellbeing during the passage from professional studies to working life is scarce and controversial. This study examined these changes among university graduates with good and poor employment prospects. DESIGN:A longitudinal study with four postal questionnaire surveys of a cl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Virtanen P,Koivisto AM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic factors may influence changes in hip fracture (HF) incidence over time. We analysed HF temporal trends during the Bone and Joint Decade in Portugal (BJD-Portugal), 2000-2010, by regional socioeconomic status (SES), sex and age. METHODS:We selected registers of patients aged 50+ years with HF (...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Oliveira CM,Alves SM,Pina MF

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Longitudinal data were used to explore relations between teenage pregnancy, sexual behaviour, and family type. The study examined whether students from lone parent and/or teenage mother initiated families more commonly report sex, lack of contraception at first sex, and/or conceptions by age 15/16, and wheth...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bonell C,Allen E,Strange V,Oakley A,Copas A,Johnson A,Stephenson J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors assessed whether socioeconomic inequalities in asthma symptoms were already present in preschool children and to what extent prenatal, perinatal and postnatal risk factors for asthma symptoms mediate the effect of socioeconomic status (SES). METHODS:The study included 3136 Dutch children partici...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hafkamp-de Groen E,van Rossem L,de Jongste JC,Mohangoo AD,Moll HA,Jaddoe VW,Hofman A,Mackenbach JP,Raat H

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：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：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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore risk factors for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OAK) in women, which included wearing high heeled shoes. DESIGN:Matched case-control study. Exposure information obtained by interview, included details about past footwear. Self reported weight and height data obtained representing when wome...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dawson J,Juszczak E,Thorogood M,Marks SA,Dodd C,Fitzpatrick R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of area of residence on functional health as represented by medical outcomes study SF-36 physical and mental component summary scores. DESIGN:Multilevel analysis of cross sectional data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition in Norfolk, UK (EPIC-...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wainwright NW,Surtees PG

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A promising concept in cardiovascular disease prevention (the polypill) was introduced in 2003. Although the polypill may seem as an effective intervention, data on its costs and cost effectiveness remain unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the maximum price of the polypill for it to be a cost ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Franco OH,Steyerberg EW,de Laet C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:It has been frequently noted that overweight and obesity have a stronger relationship to hypertension and diabetes mellitus than to the risk of stroke. The reason for this observation has not been clear. This study aimed to examine the lifelong relation between body fat and stroke to shed light on why t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Shinton R,Sagar G,Beevers G

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether perceived failure in school performance increases the potential for children to be physically injured. SUBJECTS:Children aged 10-15 years residing in the Stockholm County and hospitalised or called back for a medical check up because of a physical injury during the school years 2000-2...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Laflamme L,Engström K,Möller J,Hallqvist J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate if job insecurity and poor labour market chances predict a decline in self-rated health in the Danish workforce. DESIGN:Job insecurity, labour market chances, self-rated health and numerous covariates were measured in 1809 women and 1918 men who responded to a questionnaire in 1995 and again i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rugulies R,Aust B,Burr H,Bültmann U

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Understanding the causes of poor mental health in early childhood and adolescence is important as this can be a significant determinant of mental well-being in later years. One potential and relatively unexplored factor is residential mobility in formative years. Previous studies have been relatively small a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tseliou F,Maguire A,Donnelly M,O'Reilly D

更新日期：2016-03-01 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: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：BACKGROUND:Life expectancy at birth in Spain improved between 1972 and 1982, by 2.5 years for males and 3.2 years for females. This slowed considerably in the following decade, with increases of only 0.5 and 1.7 years respectively. OBJECTIVE:To determine the causes of death that have been responsible for the failure b...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chenet L,McKee M,Otero A,Ausin I

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through life-course epidemiological studies. AIMS:To investi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Roustit C,Renahy E,Guernec G,Lesieur S,Parizot I,Chauvin P

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To review the incidence of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children and young adults in the area less than 25 km from the Dounreay nuclear installation and the remainder of the Kirkwall postcode area in the full time period for which data are now available (1968-91), and to determine whether the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Black RJ,Sharp L,Harkness EF,McKinney PA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Previous studies have implicated air pollution in increased mortality and morbidity, especially in the elderly population and children. More recently, associations with mortality in infants and with some reproductive outcomes have also been reported. The aim of this study is to explore the association betwee...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Gouveia N,Bremner SA,Novaes HM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00