On the influence of data source in aggregated data studies: a comparative study of suicide information based on death certificates and judicial files.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to quantify the difference in precision of risk estimates in epidemiology between the situations where misclassification of exposure is corrected for by external validation and where it is corrected for by internal repeat measurement. Precision was measured in terms of the expected width of ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Duffy SW,Maximovitch DM,Day NE

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore individual and social factors that could predict health care utilisation and medication among people with chronic pain in an unselected population. DESIGN:A mailed survey with questions about pain and mental symptoms, disability, self care action, visits to health care providers, and medicat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Andersson HI,Ejlertsson G,Leden I,Scherstén B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Light to moderate alcohol intake lowers the risk of cardiovascular mortality, but whether this protective effect can be attributed to a specific type of beverage remains unclear. Moreover, little is known about the effects of long-term alcohol intake on life expectancy. METHODS:The impact of long-term alcoh...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Streppel MT,Ocké MC,Boshuizen HC,Kok FJ,Kromhout D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To clarify concepts and methodological problems in existing multidimensional health status measures for children. DESIGN:Thematic review of instruments found by computerised and manual searches, 1979-95. SUBJECTS:Nine health status instruments. MAIN RESULTS:Many instruments did not satisfy criteria o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pal DK

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health advocacy is the strategic use of news media to advance a public policy initiative, often in the face of opposition. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chapman S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To examine whether psychosocial factors at work are related to self rated health in post-communist countries. DESIGN AND SETTINGS:Random samples of men and women in five communities in four countries were sent a postal questionnaire (Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania) or were invited to an intervie...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pikhart H,Bobak M,Siegrist J,Pajak A,Rywik S,Kyshegyi J,Gostautas A,Skodova Z,Marmot M

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Financial strain is associated with earlier disability and mortality, but causal links are underexplored, partly because it is unethical to randomise people to financial stress. This study leverages naturally occurring random variation in days since monthly Social Security payment arrival among older adults ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Samuel L,Szanton SL,Fedarko NS,Simonsick EM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immigrants are sometimes found to have better health than locally born populations. We examined the mortality experience of South Asian origin and white European origin individuals living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. METHODS:A linked 17-21 year mortality follow-up of a cross-sectional study of European (n=82...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hayes L,White M,McNally RJQ,Unwin N,Tran A,Bhopal R

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic screening of death certificates referable to residents of two health districts covered by a psychiatric case register allows the study of excess mortality in unselected psychiatric patients from a defined area of known population. Deaths among the case register patients exceeded those expected by 80%; the r...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hassall C,Prior P,Cross KW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of features of the neighbourhood physical environment that have a causal association with positive child development is important for promoting long-term developmental health. Previous research on these associations have been conducted at the neighbourhood level, and do not account for individ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bell MF,Turrell G,Beesley B,Boruff B,Trapp G,Zubrick SR,Christian HE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS:There is widespread consensus on the need for better indicators of the effectiveness of healthcare. We carried out an analysis of the validity of amenable mortality as an indicator of the effectiveness of healthcare, focusing on the potential use in routine surveillance systems of between-coun...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackenbach JP,Hoffmann R,Khoshaba B,Plug I,Rey G,Westerling R,Pärna K,Jougla E,Alfonso J,Looman C,McKee M

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that birth weight is positively associated with education, but it remains unclear whether this association is explained by familial environmental factors, genetic factors or the intrauterine environment. We analysed the association between birth weight and educational years within twin pair...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jelenkovic A,Mikkonen J,Martikainen P,Latvala A,Yokoyama Y,Sund R,Vuoksimaa E,Rebato E,Sung J,Kim J,Lee J,Lee S,Stazi MA,Fagnani C,Brescianini S,Derom CA,Vlietinck RF,Loos RJF,Krueger RF,McGue M,Pahlen S,Nelson

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Micronutrient deficiencies have become rare in industrialised countries as availability of fresh food, supplementation, and fortification have improved but a less favourable situation may still prevail in many developing countries. Blood thiamin status and determinants were therefore investigated in the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bovet P,Larue D,Fayol V,Paccaud F

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social inequality in ischaemic heart disease has been related to socioeconomic position in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. However, the impact of relative level of accumulated income periods across adult life course and the potential gender and age differences have not been investigated. The a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kriegbaum M,Hougaard CØ,Andersen I,Brønnum-Hansen H,Lund R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:It is increasingly recognised that different dimensions of social inequality may be linked to health by different pathways. Furthermore, factors operating at the individual level such as employment conditions may affect health in a different way from household level factors. The paper examines the assoc...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chandola T,Bartley M,Wiggins R,Schofield P

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to estimate the health and social costs of tobacco use in Ontario, Canada. DESIGN:This was a cost-benefit analysis based on cross sectional data in 1988, stratified by age and sex, using an attributable risk model. The total cost of the consequences of tobacco use in the society includ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Choi BC,Pak AW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationship between residential change and a woman's subsequent risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), whether by a past or a new offender, a relationship that has not been prospectively examined to date. DESIGN:A dynamic cohort of women who recently changed residence (movers) was compared...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Waltermaurer E,McNutt LA,Mattingly MJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinatal mortality rates of mothers who delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital from 1969 to 1976 have been examined. The rate in the West Indian population was significant higher than in the United Kingdom white population. The increased West Indian mortality was confined to infants with a birth weight of more than 2...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Robinson MJ,Palmer SR,Avery A,James CE,Beynon JL,Taylor RW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children have a social status position of their own, apart from that of the family, that may have an impact on short-term and long-term health. The aim of the present study was to analyse the associations between childhood social status in school (ie, peer status) and disease-specific morbidity in adulthood....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Almquist Y

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper is to systematically review and analyse the validity and reliability of Antonovsky's life orientation questionnaire/sense of coherence scale (SOC). DESIGN:The study is descriptive and analytical with a systematic integration of the contemporary knowledge base on the salutogenic re...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Eriksson M,Lindström B

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ethnic/racial inequalities in access to and quality of healthcare have been repeatedly documented in the USA. Although there is some evidence of inequalities in England, research is not so extensive. Ethnic inequalities in use of primary and secondary health services, and in outcomes of care, were examined i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nazroo JY,Falaschetti E,Pierce M,Primatesta P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynaecological neoplasms, especially in industrialised countries. The aetiology of the disease is not well understood, except that inherited mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 account for up to 10% of all cases, and child-bearing, oral contraceptive use and ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Langseth H,Hankinson SE,Siemiatycki J,Weiderpass E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Although national variation in short-term prognosis (that is, 30 day mortality) after a patient's first hospitalisation for heart failure may depend on individual differences between patients, dissimilarities in hospital practices may also influence prognosis. This study, therefore, sought to disentangl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Merlo J,Ostergren PO,Broms K,Bjorck-Linné A,Liedholm H

更新日期：2001-05-01 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: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：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:Neighbourhood resources may preserve functional independence in older adults, but little is known about whether benefits differ for individuals with normal and impaired memory. We evaluated the extent to which neighbourhood context was related to onset of instrumental and basic activities of daily living (I/...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Nguyen TT,Rist PM,Glymour MM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the geographical variation in self perceived morbidity in the south west of England, and assess the associations with rurality and social deprivation. DESIGN:A geographically based cross sectional study using 1991 census data on premature Limiting Long Term Illness (LLTI). The urban-rural an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barnett S,Roderick P,Martin D,Diamond I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00