Effect of changes in green spaces on mental health in older adults: a fixed effects analysis.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a smoke free programme implemented at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1996. This programme included a prohibition to smoke in university buildings everywhere except in limited areas, and a smoking cessation counselling service. METHODS:Surve...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Etter JF,Ronchi A,Perneger T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Base line data together with data in public registers and a structured phone interview of 94 of the 121 non-attenders was used for an assessment of factors influencing participation in the prospective population study 'Men born in 1914' in Malmö, Sweden. The overall attendance rate was 80.5% but varied among areas in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Janzon L,Hanson BS,Isacsson SO,Lindell SE,Steen B

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the effect of the Demerit Point System (DPS), introduced in Spain on 1 July 2006, on the number of fatalities due to road traffic accidents, using a methodology that controls for the seasonal variation and trend in the data series. METHODS:Time-series analysis by ARIMA models of 29 113 fatalities ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pulido J,Lardelli P,de la Fuente L,Flores VM,Vallejo F,Regidor E

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People living in highly walkable neighbourhoods tend to be more physically active and less likely to be obese. Whether walkable urban design reduces the future risk of diabetes is less clear. METHODS:We used inverse probability of treatment weighting to compare 10-year diabetes incidence between residents l...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Booth GL,Creatore MI,Luo J,Fazli GS,Johns A,Rosella LC,Glazier RH,Moineddin R,Gozdyra P,Austin PC

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty is a way to appreciate the variable vulnerability to declining health status of people as they age. No consensus for measuring frailty has been established. This study aimed to adapt a Frailty Index (FI) to the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and evaluate its applicability in both younger...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kanters DM,Griffith LE,Hogan DB,Richardson J,Patterson C,Raina P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying children at risk of poor developmental outcomes remains a challenge, but is important for better targeting children who may benefit from additional support. We explored whether data routinely collected in early life predict which children will have language disability, overweight/obesity or behav...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Straatmann VS,Pearce A,Hope S,Barr B,Whitehead M,Law C,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Even though persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are well-known neurotoxicants, there is no previous study, even cross-sectional, on the association between background exposure to POPs and clinically significant developmental disorders, such as learning disability (LD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD), amo...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lee DH,Jacobs DR,Porta M

更新日期：2007-07-01 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:Uterine fibroids (UFs) are the most common form of sex steroid hormone-dependent benign tumours that grow in the walls of the uterus. Several observational studies have examined the association between obesity and the risk of UFs, but findings are inconsistent. The objective of this systematic review and met...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Qin H,Lin Z,Vásquez E,Luan X,Guo F,Xu L

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of a community based bicycle helmet programme aimed at children aged 5-12 years (about 140,000) from poor and well off municipalities. METHODS:A quasi-experimental design, including a control group, was used. Changes in the risk of bicycle related head injuries leading to hospitalisatio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Farley C,Laflamme L,Vaez M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Several studies have reported an association between income inequality and increased mortality, but few have used net income data, controlled for individual income, or evaluated sensitivity to the choice of inequality measure. The study tested the hypotheses that people in regions of Britain with the gr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Weich S,Lewis G,Jenkins SP

更新日期：2002-06-01 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 assess the impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position (SEP) across 20 causes of death in a large population-wide sample of Norwegian men and women. METHODS:Census data on parental occupational class from 1960 and data from the tax register on household income in 1990 were linked to the death...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Naess O,Strand BH,Smith GD

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with returning for second round mammography screening. SETTING:This was a population based mammographic screening programme in Melbourne, Australia. DESIGN:A cohort design was used whereby 668 women were interviewed before the screening programme began and attendance for both f...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cockburn J,Schofield P,White V,Hill D,Russell I

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To analyse the role played by socioeconomic factors and self rated general health in the prediction of the reporting of severe longterm illness, and the extent to which these factors explain social class differences in the reporting of such illness. DESIGN:Analysis of panel data from the survey of livi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Blank N,Diderichsen F

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cross-cohort comparison is an established method for improving causal inference. This study compared 2 cohorts, 1 from a high-income country and another from a middle-income country, to (1) establish whether birth exposures may play a causal role in the development of childhood attention problems; and (2) id...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murray E,Pearson R,Fernandes M,Santos IS,Barros FC,Victora CG,Stein A,Matijasevich A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exponential model based on the infectious disease model of Kermack and McKendrick has been simplified to illustrate how the use of heroin spreads in epidemic fashion. A numerical simulation is arranged to show how the dynamics of spread are influenced by the original number of users, rates of conversion, and time o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackintosh DR,Stewart GT

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the public's knowledge and perception of SARS and the extent to which various precautionary measures have been adopted. DESIGN:Cross sectional survey. SETTING:General population of Hong Kong at the height of the SARS outbreak (29 March to 6 April 2003). PARTICIPANTS:1115 ethnic Chinese adults. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Leung GM,Lam TH,Ho LM,Ho SY,Chan BH,Wong IO,Hedley AJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 6168 schizophrenic patients was followed from 1957 to 1984 to determine the incidence of cancer in these patients. In the male schizophrenic patients the incidence of cancer was found to be significantly reduced in comparison with the general Danish population. This reduction was especially marked for canc...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mortensen PB

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To assess the completeness and accuracy of notification of cancers by the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) for England and Wales. DESIGN:Comparison of 720 cancer registrations ascertained from NHSCR up to May 1999 with those ascertained for the same cohort from six other sources and a p...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dickinson HO,Salotti JA,Birch PJ,Reid MM,Malcolm A,Parker L

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To assess the association between birth weight and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in a cohort of post-menopausal women, (2) to determine the combined effects of birth weight and adult body mass index on CHD, (3) to assess the role of insulin resistance as a mediating factor in the associations. DESIG...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lawlor DA,Davey Smith G,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While social disparities in mortality have been shown in the majority of high-income countries, research on inequalities in the German population is still limited. This applies especially to studies investigating time trends in social inequalities with respect to life expectancy. The aim of this study is to ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tetzlaff F,Epping J,Sperlich S,Tetzlaff J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Northern Ireland has the highest standardised mortality ratios for colon cancer in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has some of the highest mortality rates for cancer in the world. The aim of the study therefore was to investigate trends in colorectal cancer in the north and south of Irela...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kee F,Patterson C,Collins B

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We estimated the contribution of smoking to educational differences in mortality and life expectancy between 1971 and 2010 in Finland. METHODS:Eight prospective datasets with baseline in 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005 and each linked to a 5-year mortality follow-up were used. We calculate...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Martikainen P,Ho JY,Preston S,Elo IT

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Medical students in Nottingham all complete an honours Bachelor of Medical Sciences course in one department including a research project. The honours programme in community health is described, with results from a survey of the 122 graduates since the medical school started. The 98 (80%) responses showed high levels ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Elwood JM,Pearson JC,Madeley RJ,Logan RF,Beaver MW,Gillies PA,Little J,Langham A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal variation in carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning during 1969-78 was examined using the monthly hospital admissions and environmental weather data from Seoul, Korea. The results showed that there were nine times as many cases of CO poisoning in December as in August. CO poisoning cases were significantly correlated...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kim YS

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00