Tobacco still a major killer-will we achieve the end game?

abstract：Background:Mental health problems in the perinatal period are common. We examined associations between different categories of migrant status and region of origin in relation to mental health during pregnancy and at 2 months post-partum. Methods:We analyzed data from the French nationally representative Etude Longitud...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： El-Khoury F,Sutter-Dallay AL,Panico L,Charles MA,Azria E,Van der Waerden J,Melchior M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess country differences in prevalence of overweight, obesity, underweight and stunting in the Pro Children Survey. METHODS:A cross-sectional study conducted in a random sample of schools in nine European countries in 2003. The subjects were 8317 11-year-old children from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ice...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Yngve A,De Bourdeaudhuij I,Wolf A,Grjibovski A,Brug J,Due P,Ehrenblad B,Elmadfa I,Franchini B,Klepp KI,Poortvliet E,Rasmussen M,Thorsdottir I,Perez Rodrigo C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lifestyle advice given by general practitioners (GPs) may be a cost-effective means of health promotion; however, it is not fully put into routine practice. The aim of this study was to explore to what extent GPs' patients expect and receive advice concerning alcohol, tobacco, exercise and diet in relation t...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Johansson K,Bendtsen P,Akerlind I

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis from published cohort studies to examine the association of adult height and all-cause mortality and to further explore the dose-response association. METHODS:PubMed, The Cochrane Library, The Ovid, CNKI, CQVIP and Wanfang databases were searched for articl...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Li Q,Liu Y,Sun X,Li H,Cheng C,Liu L,Liu F,Zhou Q,Guo C,Tian G,Qie R,Han M,Huang S,Li L,Wang B,Zhao Y,Ren Y,Zhang M,Hu D,Wu J,Lu J

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate mental health symptoms as prognostic risk markers of all-cause and psychiatric sickness absence (SA). METHODS:Mental health symptoms were measured in 1137 office workers with the Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ), including scales for distress, depression, anxiety and somatization...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Roelen CA,Hoedeman R,van Rhenen W,Groothoff JW,van der Klink JJ,Bültmann U

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Netherlands experienced several outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases, largely confined to an orthodox Protestant minority group. Based on religious arguments some orthodox Protestants accept vaccination, while others refuse. Their acceptance of vaccination, however, seems to be changing over time. W...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Spaan DH,Ruijs WLM,Hautvast JLA,Tostmann A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As overweight and obesity are highly prevalent in Eastern Europe, the study examined the trends and factors associated with self-reported weight reducing behaviours among individuals with excess body weight in Estonia. METHODS:Study used nationally representative cross-sectional data from 2006 to 2016 inclu...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Reile R,Leinsalu M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper aims to analyse socioeconomic variation in the use of cheese and butter in Europe by reviewing existing dietary surveys. It explores whether socioeconomic differences in the intake of these foods follow a similar pattern in all countries. METHODS:An overview of available studies on socioeconomic ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Prättälä RS,Groth MV,Oltersdorf US,Roos GM,Sekula W,Tuomainen HM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier studies have reported socioeconomic differences in coronary heart disease incidence and mortality and in coronary treatment, but less is known about outcomes of care. We examined trends in income group differences in outcomes of coronary revascularizations among Finnish residents in 1998-2010. METHO...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Manderbacka K,Arffman M,Lumme S,Keskimäki I

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this review article, we detail a small but growing literature in the field of health geography that uses longitudinal data to determine a life course component to the neighbourhood effects thesis. For too long, there has been reliance on cross-sectional data to test the hypothesis that where you live has ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Jivraj S,Murray ET,Norman P,Nicholas O

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To improve our understanding of the problematic labour market position of people with a chronic disease, this paper describes the participation rates of several subgroups of the chronically ill in the Netherlands, as well as the aspects by which the working chronically ill differ from those who are fully wor...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Baanders AN,Rijken PM,Peters L

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasingly neighbourhoods are identified as influencing health. Neighbourhood characteristics have been linked to cigarette use. In Lebanon, the water pipe (narghile) use is most frequent among youth. The current study is aimed at identifying differential neighbourhood influences on smoking narghile among ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Afifi RA,Yeretzian JS,Rouhana A,Nehlawi MT,Mack A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nutrition labels are a potentially valuable tool to assist consumers in making healthy food choices. Front-of-pack labels are a relatively new format and are now widely used across many European countries, but it is unclear which of the many formats in use are best understood by consumers. It is also unclear...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Draper AK,Adamson AJ,Clegg S,Malam S,Rigg M,Duncan S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal way to display constituent levels (e.g. tar) on tobacco packaging has not received adequate attention but has important policy implications. Adult smokers and non-smokers (n = 836) were surveyed in France using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing to assess perceptions of constituent levels displayed nu...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Gallopel-Morvan K,Moodie C,Hammond D,Eker F,Beguinot E,Martinet Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior research examining the association between retirement and alcohol consumption is inconsistent with respect to salience, direction and magnitude. Reasonable conceptual arguments for both positive (e.g. coping, introduction of leisure time) and negative (e.g. severance of work-related social relationship...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Wang X,Steier JB,Gallo WT

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of the written word, facilitated by the introduction of the printing press, was an information revolution with profound implications for European society. Now, a second information revolution is underway, a digital transformation that is shaping the way Europeans live and interact with each other and the wo...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： McKee M,van Schalkwyk MCI,Stuckler D

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health 2020 is the regional health policy framework of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The goals of Health 2020 are to improve health and well-being, reduce health inequalities and strengthen public health. To gain insight into the Health 2020 targets needing extra attention i...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Zuidberg MRJ,Shriwise A,de Boer LM,Johansen AS

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is a recurrent finding that adolescent girls report psychological symptoms in a higher degree compared with boys. The explanations for this difference vary, but the psychosocial school environment has never been a focus in these explanations. The aim of this study was to analyse whether psychosocial facto...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Gådin KG,Hammarström A

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:Antonowsky's concept of sense of coherence (SOC) has, during recent years, gained increased attention as a salutogenic model on the relationship between health and disease. However, only sparse information connecting child chronic health conditions to parental SOC is yet available. This article presents results from a...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Grøholt EK,Stigum H,Nordhagen R,Köhler L

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies investigate predictors of intentional self-injury over time in non-clinical samples. By using longitudinal data from the whole population of the county of Scania, Sweden, aged 18 years and over (N = 936 449), we aim to identify risk factors for non-fatal diagnosed intentional self-injury. Groups ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Modén B,Ohlsson H,Merlo J,Rosvall M

更新日期：2014-04-01 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:Risk-taking behaviours such as early initiation of smoking, alcohol drinking and sexual activity often cluster within individuals and could be characteristics of adolescents who in general are risk takers. In the present study, using a large population-based sample of 64 659 women aged 18-45 years in four No...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Olesen TB,Jensen KE,Nygård M,Tryggvadottir L,Sparén P,Hansen BT,Liaw KL,Kjaer SK

更新日期：2012-04-01 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:Carrier screening for autosomal recessive disorders aims to facilitate reproductive decision-making by identifying couples with a 1-in-4 risk in every pregnancy of having an affected child. Except for a few countries or regions, carrier screening is not widely offered and is mostly ancestry-based. Technologi...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Holtkamp KCA,Mathijssen IB,Lakeman P,van Maarle MC,Dondorp WJ,Henneman L,Cornel MC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adherence to recommended guidelines in the care for diabetes has been demonstrated to significantly prevent the excess risk of hospitalization and mortality for cardiovascular diseases. Aim of this study was to evaluate whether adherence to a standardized process quality-of-care-indicator in diabetes, is abl...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Seghieri C,Policardo L,Francesconi P,Seghieri G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Programmes to educate media professionals about suicide are increasingly established, but information about which suicide cases are most likely to be reported in the mass media is sparse. METHODS:We applied binomial tests to compare frequencies of social characteristics of all domestic suicides in the 13 la...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Niederkrotenthaler T,Till B,Herberth A,Voracek M,Kapusta ND,Etzersdorfer E,Strauss M,Sonneck G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has shown that adolescents with asthma are as likely as and sometimes even more likely to smoke than their peers without asthma. The current study examined whether the prevalence of the first active smoking experience differs for children (9-12 years of age) diagnosed with asthma compared with child...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Ringlever L,Otten R,Van Schayck OC,Engels RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 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:Consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. The European Union Common Agricultural Policy keeps prices high by limiting the availability of fruits and vegetables. This policy is at odds with public health interests. We assess the potential heal...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Veerman JL,Barendregt JJ,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00