Estimating the sensitivity of a screening test.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relative admission rates of Asian and non-Asian patients to intensive therapy units (ITUs) in Coventry and to explore the implications of these rates for the transplantation of organs to Asian people. DESIGN:Examination of 1991 census data and a retrospective review of ITU admissions books. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Exley C,Sim J,Reid NG,Booth L,Jackson S,West N

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study provides reliable mortality data by a much wider range of characteristics than are available for other national sources. Although it is based on only a 1% sample of the population, it broadens the scope of mortality analysis and permits study of changes ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fox AJ,Goldblatt PO,Adelstein AM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outlook for patients with lung cancer is poor, so an accurate estimation of prognosis will underpin treatment decisions and allow patients to make personal plans for the future. However, evidence suggests that there is a variation between doctors in their predictions of outcomes and also they tend to be over-optim...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kee F,Owen T,Leathem R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study whether women having had caesarean sections (index women) have more subsequent health problems, measured by hospital admissions, than women having had vaginal deliveries (control women). DESIGN:The study involved comparison of hospital admissions before (2-5 years) and after (7-10 years)...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hemminki E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To describe the differences in health behaviours in disparate marital status groups and to estimate the extent to which these can explain differences in health associated with marital status. DESIGN:Baseline data of a prospective cohort study were used. Directly age standardised percentages of each mar...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Joung IM,Stronks K,van de Mheen H,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To perform the first European overview of educational inequalities in the use of blood pressure and cholesterol screening. METHODS:Data were obtained on the use of screening services according to educational level from nationally representative cross-sectional surveys in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Es...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rodin D,Stirbu I,Ekholm O,Dzurova D,Costa G,Mackenbach JP,Kunst AE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between neighbourhood income inequality and depression, both overall and among those with different levels of income, in the post-disaster context. DESIGN:A representative cross sectional random digit dial telephone survey was conducted. SETTING:New York City (NYC) six month...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ahern J,Galea S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal component analysis (PCA) is frequently adopted for creating socioeconomic proxies in order to investigate the independent effects of wealth on disease status. The guidelines and methods for the creation of these proxies are well described and validated. The Demographic and Health Survey, World Health Survey ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Homenauth E,Kajeguka D,Kulkarni MA

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:It is generally acknowledged that conventional estimates of the potential number of life years to be gained by elimination of causes of death are too generous. This is because these estimates fail to take into account the fact that those who are saved from the cause are likely to have one or more other condi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackenbach JP,Kunst AE,Lautenbach H,Oei YB,Bijlsma F

更新日期：1999-01-01 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:This study investigated the association of residential density with overweight among adolescents in an urban area of China. METHODS:Using multistage proportional sampling methods, a population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Nanjing between September and November 2004 (n=2375; mean age=13.9 ± 1....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Xu F,Li J,Liang Y,Wang Z,Hong X,Ware RS,Leslie E,Sugiyama T,Owen N

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the incidence of seroconversion and seroreversion in IgG antibodies to Helicobacter pylori within a 11 year observation period using these events as markers for acquisition and loss of the infection, respectively. DESIGN:Population based prospective cohort study. SETTING:Northern part of Co...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rosenstock S,Jørgensen T,Andersen L,Bonnevie O

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have examined the effects of sample selection on the exposure-outcome association estimates in cohort studies, but the reasons why this selection may induce bias have not been fully explored. AIMS:To investigate how sample selection of the web-based NINFEA birth cohort may change the confoun...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pizzi C,De Stavola BL,Pearce N,Lazzarato F,Ghiotti P,Merletti F,Richiardi L

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1975 and 1 April 1986, public transport by bus in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, England, was increasingly subsidised. Trends in road traffic accident casualties between 1974 and 1983 in all the six provincial English metropolitan counties have been compared in order to examine the possible effect...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nicholl JP,Freeman MR,Williams BT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To inform discussions on rates, burden and priority-setting in relation to police violence, we quantified the number and rate of years of life lost (YLLs) due to police violence by race/ethnicity and age in the USA, 2015-2016. METHODS:We used data on the number of deaths due to police violence from 'The Cou...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bui AL,Coates MM,Matthay EC

更新日期：2018-08-01 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:This study contributes robust evidence on the association between mental health and local crime rates by showing how changing exposure to small area-level crime relates to self-reported and administrative data on mental health. METHODS:The study sample comprised 112 251 adults aged 16-60 years, drawn from t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Baranyi G,Cherrie M,Curtis SE,Dibben C,Pearce J

更新日期：2020-10-01 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:Although physical activity is associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL), the nature of the dose-response relationship remains unclear. OBJECTIVES:To examine the concurrent and prospective dose-response relationships between total physical activity (TPA) and (only) walking with HRQL in two age co...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Heesch KC,van Uffelen JG,van Gellecum YR,Brown WJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 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: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：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：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：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：BACKGROUND:Although working smoke alarms halve deaths in residential fires, many households do not keep alarms operational. We tested whether theory-based education increases alarm operability. METHODS:Randomised multiarm trial, with a single arm randomly selected for use each day, in low-income neighbourhoods in Mary...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Miller TR,Bergen G,Ballesteros MF,Bhattacharya S,Gielen AC,Sheppard MS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

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：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：:The following essay outlines the intervention and presents a framework that will serve as a guide in the evaluation of the different effects of the Superblocks. Superblocks consist of amalgamations of blocks throughout the city, with the goal of improving the habitability of public spaces, advancing sustainable mobili...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mehdipanah R,Novoa AM,León-Gómez BB,López MJ,Palència L,Vasquez H,Díez È,Borrell C,Pérez K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00