Media use, cancer knowledge and lifestyle choices: a cross-sectional analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) is a preventable cause of disease and disability that can effectively be tackled by tobacco legislation. The aim of the study was to analyse the trends of SHS exposure and its sociodemographic patterning during 1996-2016 in the context of tobacco policy changes in Estonia....

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Reile R,Pärna K

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We document the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of people living in the Gaza Strip 6 months after 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009, Israeli attack. METHODS:Cross-sectional survey 6 months after the Israeli attack. Households were selected by cluster sampling in two stages: a random sample of enume...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Abu-Rmeileh NM,Hammoudeh W,Mataria A,Husseini A,Khawaja M,Shannon HS,Hogan D,Watt GC,Zurayk H,Giacaman R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality variations have been reported for ethnic minority groups compared with their host populations. It is uncertain how this mortality variations change over time as younger generations become older and mix with the host population. This study aimed to examine all-cause mortality among three generations...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Bodewes AJ,Agyemang C,Kunst AE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies of relationship between religiosity, health behaviors and well-being have showed mainly positive relationships, however, are very often limited to results of associative nature and subject to unmeasured confounding. This study focused on evaluating evidence for a positive association between...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Pawlikowski J,Białowolski P,Węziak-Białowolska D,VanderWeele TJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The EUROMED CANCER Network project aims to support non-EU Mediterranean countries in the development of cancer early detection and screening policies. METHODS:Through a structured questionnaire information from 15 countries (Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Egypt, Jordan, UN Interim ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Giordano L,Bisanti L,Salamina G,Ancelle Park R,Sancho-Garnier H,Espinas J,Berling C,Rennert G,Castagno R,Dotti M,Jaramillo L,Segnan N,Euromed Cancer working group.

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The health risks associated with dichloromethane (DCM) for the general population living near industrial activities have not yet been quantified, primarily due to lack of epidemiological datasets. In the absence of such human data, we undertook a cancer cluster investigation in Cyprus around a historically u...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Makris KC,Voniatis M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Socially differentiated tracking of health and health behaviours may contribute to health inequalities in adulthood. The modifying effect of socio-economic position on the tracking of overweight from mid-adolescence (age 15 years) into adulthood (age 27 years) was assessed in a randomly sampled Danish cohort (n = 561)...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Rasmussen M,Holstein BE,Due P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening is intended to advance diagnosis thereby shifting the stage distribution towards more locally confined stages. Consequently we aimed to estimate trends in stage-specific breast cancer in relation to the introduction of population-based screening. METHODS:From the Cancer Registry of Norway we retri...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Lousdal ML,Kristiansen IS,Møller B,Støvring H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Falciparum malaria or malaria tropica is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality worldwide. Malaria-related deaths occur mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 365 million clinical cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria occur each year. In Europe, imported malaria cases occur due to return...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Driessen GJ,Pereira RR,Brabin BJ,Hartwig NG

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS) considers health inequalities (HI) an important area of activity. As the scientific and technical body of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, ISS may play a key role to reduce HI. In order to enable ISS in addres...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Bucciardini R,Ferrelli RM,Giammarioli AM,Bortolin E,Fanales Belasio E,Mattioli B,Donfrancesco C,Sabbatucci M,Pasetto R,Colucci A,Mancinelli R,Palmieri L,De Castro P,Sampaolo L,Gaudi S,Falzano L,Morelli S,Grassi T,Butt

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Charlson index is a widely used measure of comorbidity. The objective was to compare Charlson index scores calculated using administrative data to those calculated using case-note review (CNR) in relation to all-cause mortality and initiation of renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the Grampian Laboratory ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Johnston MC,Marks A,Crilly MA,Prescott GJ,Robertson LM,Black C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to examine the effects of parental socioeconomic status, own socioeconomic status and social mobility upon the development of smoking from adolescence to adulthood. METHODS:Subjects were the participants of the North Karelia Youth Project study from six schools in Eastern Finland. A...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Paavola M,Vartiainen E,Haukkala A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific evidence shows that climate change is very likely the product of human behaviour and lifestyle. The effects of climate change on human health are diverse in nature and range from direct effects due to extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods and storms, to indirect effects such as those c...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： DeBono R,Vincenti K,Calleja N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether the occurrence of violence changed among Finnish adolescents between 1999 and 2009. The study was based on the nationwide Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Survey from samples of 12- to 18-year-olds. The number of respondents was 8136 in 1999 and 5516 in 2009. The proportion of adolescents reporting ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Lindfors PL,Kivivuori JK,Mattila VM,Rimpelä AH

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Performing international comparisons on efficiency usually has two main drawbacks: the lack of comparability of data from different countries and the appropriateness and adequacy of data selected for efficiency measurement. With inpatient discharges for four countries, some of the problems of data comparabil...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Mateus C,Joaquim I,Nunes C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that the risk of death is elevated after the death of a spouse. Limited evidence is available on changes in mental health before and after bereavement among individuals whose spouse dies of dementia. METHODS:We analyzed changes in the 3-month prevalence of antidepressant use for ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Einiö E,Metsä-Simola N,Saarioja S,Martikainen P,Korhonen K

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to analyse the changes in the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and in mean body mass index (BMI) among school children, and to analyse the predictive value of overweight and obesity at school entry to overweight and obesity in adolescence in an Arctic child population. METHODS:Re...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Niclasen BV,Petzold MG,Schnohr C

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify clinical inappropriateness of antibiotic prescription and its costs in primary health care. METHODS:2470 cases of infectious disease during 1998 were analysed. RESULTS:Of all cases, 69.9% did not require antibiotic treatment. Global clinical inappropriateness amounted to 43.7%, rising to 56.7% w...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Caminal J,Rovira J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolescent alcohol use varies across Europe. Differences in use might be due to variations in social drinking norms. These norms become apparent, e.g. in different proportions of alcohol drinking types per country. This study's purpose is to cluster European countries according to prevalence rates of alcohol...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Bräker AB,Soellner R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most surveys are plagued by significant numbers of non-respondents. In psychiatric epidemiology, differences in levels of psychopathology are often assumed between respondents and non-respondents. However, studies on attrition are rare, especially in child and adolescent populations. The present study sought...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Fröjd SA,Kaltiala-Heino R,Marttunen MJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few cross-national studies have compared the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health among East Asian countries. This study elucidates the relationship between SES and self-rated health (SRH) in four societies of East Asia: China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. METHODS:We used the data f...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hanibuchi T,Nakaya T,Murata C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Through its effects on the immune system, smoking may facilitate influenza virus infection, its severity and its most frequent complications. The objective was to investigate the smoking history as a risk factor for influenza hospitalization and influenza vaccine effectiveness in elderly smokers/ex-smokers a...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Godoy P,Castilla J,Soldevila N,Mayoral JM,Toledo D,Martín V,Astray J,Egurrola M,Morales-Suarez-Varela M,Domínguez A,CIBERESP Cases and Controls in Pandemic Influenza Working Group, Spain*.

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of studies have suggested that social inequalities in health disappear or are attenuated in early adolescence possibly due to changing risk exposures. The present study examines social equalization in youth in a representative sample of British households with children aged 0-18 years. METHODS:Seco...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Spencer NJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the year 2006, Australia introduced graphic cigarette packet warnings. Previous warnings were text only. New warnings include one of 14 pictures, many depicting tobacco-related pathology. METHODS:This study monitored the roll-out of the health policy initiative using multiple methodologies. Print media c...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Miller CL,Hill DJ,Quester PG,Hiller JE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study is to analyse gender inequalities in the combination of job and family life and their effect on health status and use of health care services. METHODS:The data come from the Navarra Survey of Working Conditions (Spain, 1997) carried out on a sample of 2185 workers. The analysis w...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Artazcoz L,Artieda L,Borrell C,Cortès I,Benach J,García V

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the implementation of the Icelandic Model for Primary Prevention of Substance Use in Iceland (IPM), substance use has decreased steadily among 14-16-year-old adolescents and primary prevention factors have improved. Although the IPM is being implemented in several other regions around the world, inform...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Asgeirsdottir BB,Kristjansson AL,Sigfusson J,Allegrante JP,Sigfusdottir ID

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Do political parties matter to health? Do they affect population health either directly or through welfare states' social policies and the eligibility, affordability and quality of health systems? And if they do, how? These are crucial questions if we are to understand health politics or shape public health ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Falkenbach M,Bekker M,Greer SL

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is little information on potential differences in smoking behaviour of parents between Finland and Russia and on the effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure on allergic and respiratory diseases among Finnish and Russian children. The aim of the study was to compare the smoking behaviour o...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hugg TT,Jaakkola MS,Ruotsalainen RO,Pushkarev VJ,Jaakkola JJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondhand smoke levels were assessed among a convenience sample of 15 public venues in Amman, Jordan, during Ramadan. PM2.5 measurements were taken inside each venue pre- and post-'iftar', when daily smoking abstinence can be broken at sundown. Cigarette smoking was observed in all venues post-iftar, and the median P...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Ramahi I,Seidenberg AB,Kennedy RD,Rees VW

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is common knowledge that alcohol use and violence in adolescence is interrelated. However, less is known about variables which modify the link between alcohol use and violent behaviours in adolescence. The present study investigates how the interaction of intraindividual [adolescent risky single occasion ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Kuntsche E,Gossrau-Breen D,Gmel G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00