Sickness absence after inguinal herniorrhaphy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age-specific death from cardiovascular disease among Australian Aboriginals is estimated to be four to seven times that of general population, and the major cause of premature death. There is little reliable information on the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD). This study compares CHD event rates in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bradshaw PJ,Alfonso HS,Finn J,Owen J,Thompson PL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore whether the predictive power of mid-life ECG abnormalities and conventional cardiovascular risk factors for future stroke change over a 30-year follow-up period, and whether a repeated examination improves their predictive power. DESIGN AND SETTING:Longitudinal population-based study. PARTICIPAN...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Möller CS,Häggström J,Zethelius B,Wiberg B,Sundström J,Lind L

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the context of fiscal austerity in many European welfare states, policy innovation often takes the form of 'social investment', a contested set of policies aimed at strengthening labour markets. Social investment policies include employment subsidies, skills training and job-finding services, early childh...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Morris KA,Beckfield J,Bambra C

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are complex mixtures of persistent contaminants that are widespread in the environment. Newborns are exposed across the placenta and through breast feeding. Experimental animal studies have indicated that PCBs are neurotoxic. The neurological effects of these compounds on chi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ribas-Fitó N,Sala M,Kogevinas M,Sunyer J

更新日期：2001-08-01 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:There is wide evidence that women present longer duration of sickness absence (SA) than men. Musculoskeletal disorders are influenced by gender due to the sexual division of work. METHODS:354 432 episodes of non-work-related SA due to musculoskeletal disorders, which were registered in Catalonia between 200...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Arcas MM,Delclos GL,Torá-Rocamora I,Martínez JM,Benavides FG

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Wales National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) is a 16-week programme including motivational interviewing, goal setting and relapse prevention. METHOD:A pragmatic randomised controlled trial with nested economic evaluation of 2160 inactive participants with coronary heart disease risk (CHD, 1559, 72%), ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murphy SM,Edwards RT,Williams N,Raisanen L,Moore G,Linck P,Hounsome N,Din NU,Moore L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Recent studies from the USA and Europe suggest an association between an individual's political ideology and their health status, with those claiming to be conservatives reporting better health. The presence of this association is examined in Japan. METHODS:Individual-level data from the 2000-3, 2005 and 20...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Subramanian SV,Hamano T,Perkins JM,Koyabu A,Fujisawa Y

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore the relationship between self reported environmental tobacco smoke exposure (or passive smoking), the serum cotinine concentration, and evidence of respiratory or coronary disease in men and women who have never smoked. DESIGN:Cross sectional random population survey identifying disease mark...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tunstall-Pedoe H,Brown CA,Woodward M,Tavendale R

更新日期：1995-04-01 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:Alcohol policies around the world seek to delay the initiation of drinking. This is partly based on the influential idea that earlier initiation is likely to cause adult alcohol problems. This study synthesises robust evidence for this proposition. METHODS:Systematic review of prospective cohort studies in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Maimaris W,McCambridge J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of human reproduction was conducted in Tamilnadu State, South India, from 1969 to 1975. This paper reports twinning rates and relates these to maternal age, parity, and consanguinity. Birth weights and other dimensions at birth and infant mortality are also studied. The overall twinning rate was 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rao PS,Inbaraj SG,Muthurathnam S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The adverse health and environmental effects of poor housing quality are well established. A central requirement for evidence-based policies and programmes to improve housing standards is a valid, reliable and practical way of measuring housing quality that is supported by policy agencies, the housing sector...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Keall M,Baker MG,Howden-Chapman P,Cunningham M,Ormandy D

更新日期：2010-09-01 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

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:Little is known about how diet-related and activity-related amenities relate to residential location behaviour. Understanding these relationships is essential for addressing residential self-selection bias. METHODS:Using 25 years (6 examinations) of data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Ad...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rummo PE,Guilkey DK,Shikany JM,Reis JP,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the loss of life expectancy attributable to tobacco taxation (via financial hardship and flow-on health effect) in New Zealand. DESIGN:Data were used on the gradients in life expectancy and smoking by neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation and survey data on tobacco expenditure. Three estimates ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wilson N,Thomson G,Tobias M,Blakely T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relative influence of area of residence on mortality risk along the life course in different age groups and to see if this differs for causes known to be related differently to various models of the life course. METHODS:Individual data from the Censuses in 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990 from Oslo, ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Naess O,Claussen B,Smith GD,Leyland AH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To map out area effects on health research, this study had the following aims: (1) to inventory multilevel investigations of area effects on self rated health, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, and mortality among adults; (2) to describe and critically discuss methodological approaches employed and results obs...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Riva M,Gauvin L,Barnett TA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To analyse the factors that determined whether or not people were successful in quitting tobacco during the 1980s in Sweden. DESIGN:A logistic regression model was used for the analyses and included: education, marital status, socioeconomic group, social network, physical activities, cigarette consump...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tillgren P,Haglund BJ,Lundberg M,Romelsjö A

更新日期：1996-12-01 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:The aim was to determine whether induced abortions could increase the risk of secondary infertility. DESIGN:This was a case-control study; cases were women with secondary infertility, individually matched to two controls who were currently pregnant. Each participant was interviewed by one of two medica...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tzonou A,Hsieh CC,Trichopoulos D,Aravandinos D,Kalandidi A,Margaris D,Goldman M,Toupadaki N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore the role of history in public health and its relevance to current practice and professional development. DESIGN:An analysis of the issues surrounding the poor attention paid to the history of public health by its current practitioners. SETTING:The paper is written from the perspective of pr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Scally G,Womack J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a major public health issue. Several studies have found that an increased level of ambient particulate matter (PM) smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) is associated with an increased risk of OHCA. We investigated the relationship between air pollution levels and the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Straney L,Finn J,Dennekamp M,Bremner A,Tonkin A,Jacobs I

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The main aim of the study was to discover if a midwife home visiting programme has a significant effect on the prevalence of health problems and breast feeding behaviour of mothers who delivered normally and their healthy fullterm newborn babies, during a period of 42 days after delivery. Another aim w...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ransjö-Arvidson AB,Chintu K,Ng'andu N,Eriksson B,Susu B,Christensson K,Diwan VK

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the impact of being a bystander to bullying. This study compared health outcomes among bullies, victims and bystanders, and investigated actions taken by bystanders when they saw bullying. METHOD:Participants included 7522 students aged 12-18 years that completed self-report questionna...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Callaghan M,Kelly C,Molcho M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have emphasised the multidimensional nature of the social capital concept, but it is not known whether the health effects of social capital vary by dimension. The objective of this study was to examine the vertical component (ie, respectful and trusting relationships across power differentials...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Oksanen T,Kouvonen A,Vahtera J,Virtanen M,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00