abstract：BACKGROUND:Both media use and cancer knowledge have been identified as important predictors of a healthy lifestyle. However, little is known about the interplay between these two variables, and about differences between cancer diagnosed and non-diagnosed consumers of media and knowledge. This study investigated the rel...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Nelissen S,Beullens K,Lemal M,Van den Bulck J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health is substantially worse in less educated people, and extended education might potentially improve their health. A prerequisite for a beneficial health effect of education is that the effect is absolute. An absolute effect of education means that the health effect comes about independently of any effect...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Ljungdahl S,Bremberg SG

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preventing gambling harm has become a policy priority in many European countries. Adverse consequences related to problem gambling are well known, but few studies have analyzed gambling-related harm in detail in general population samples. We determined the extent and distribution of gambling harm in Finland...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Raisamo SU,Mäkelä P,Salonen AH,Lintonen TP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality indicators for Chinese patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have been developed. However, little is known about the compliance with quality indicators and the association between process indicators and in-hospital mortality in China. METHODS:Data from 1862 CHF admissions between 1 January 2009 ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Fu R,Xiang J,Bao H,Wang Z,Wang Y,Chen Y,Zhang H,Liu D,Liu M

更新日期：2015-06-01 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:Older people not only consume more medication but they also represent a group at high risk for adverse effects such as injurious falls. This study examines the association between the medications most commonly prescribed to older people in Sweden and fall injuries. METHODS:This is a population-based, matche...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Kuschel BM,Laflamme L,Möller J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Austrian health-care system is characterized by free provider choice and uncontrolled access to all levels of care. Using primary data, the ECOHCARE study shows that hospitalization rates for the secondary and tertiary care levels in Austria are both 4.4 times higher than those reported from the USA using a simila...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Pichlhöfer O,Maier M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit and vegetable consumption is linked to many positive health outcomes, nevertheless many adolescents do not consume fruit and vegetables on a daily basis. METHODS:Data of 488,951 adolescents, aged 11-, 13- and 15- years, from 33 mainly European and North American countries/regions participating in the ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Vereecken C,Pedersen TP,Ojala K,Krølner R,Dzielska A,Ahluwalia N,Giacchi M,Kelly C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bullying among children and adolescents is a public health concern; victimization is associated with psychological and physical health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine temporal trends in bullying victimization among school-aged children in Europe and North America. METHODS:Data were obtaine...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Chester KL,Callaghan M,Cosma A,Donnelly P,Craig W,Walsh S,Molcho M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global economic crisis has been associated with increased unemployment, reduced health-care spending and adverse health outcomes. Insights into the impact of economic variations on cancer mortality, however, remain limited. METHODS:We used multivariate regression analysis to assess how changes in unempl...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Maruthappu M,Watkins JA,Waqar M,Williams C,Ali R,Atun R,Faiz O,Zeltner T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Events and conditions during childhood have been found to affect health and mortality at later stages in life. We studied whether childhood conditions explain the observed all-cause and cause-specific mortality disparity between income groups in adulthood. METHODS:We used a 10% register linked sample of Fin...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Tarkiainen L,Martikainen P,Laaksonen M,Aaltonen M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data of the national hepatitis C virus (HCV) notification system and the Swiss hepatitis C cohort study have been analysed for birth year distribution. Persons born between 1955 and 1974 are disproportionally affected by HCV, accounting for 61% of all reported infections. Over the course of the reporting period from 1...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Bruggmann P,Richard JL,Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As school dropout is an important public health problem that needs to be addressed, we set out to examine whether and how, beyond the well-known effects of sex, gender beliefs and self-reported masculinity and femininity are related to school dropout. METHODS:The study used a case-control design, consisting...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Theunissen MJ,de Man I,Verdonk P,Bosma H,Feron F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patterns of risk behaviour during teenage years may vary by socio-economic status (SES). We aimed to examine possible associations between individual and multiple risk behaviours and three measures of SES in mid-adolescence. METHODS:The sample (n = 6406) comprised participants from the Avon Longitudinal Stu...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Kipping RR,Smith M,Heron J,Hickman M,Campbell R

更新日期：2015-02-01 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:Given the negative consequences of early alcohol use for health and social functioning, it is essential to detect children at risk of early drinking. The aim of this study is to determine predictors of early alcohol use that can easily be detected in Preventive Child Healthcare (PCH). METHODS:We obtained da...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Visser L,de Winter AF,Vollebergh WA,Verhulst FC,Reijneveld SA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccination rates of children in Germany are unsatisfying and regional endemic outbreaks have been reported. Few studies have analysed physicians' attitude towards vaccination. We investigated whether there is an association between physicians' attitude and vaccination coverage on the regional level for Germ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Weigel M,Weitmann K,Rautmann C,Schmidt J,Bruns R,Hoffmann W

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluates the changes in Spain between 2006 and 2012, of school-based policies encouraging healthy eating and the undertaking of physical activity (PA). METHODS:A longitudinal study was undertaken comprising 277 representative schools from all the regions of Spain. The questionnaires were complet...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Gallego P,Galán I,José Medrano M,Ramos P,Rivera F,Moreno C

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:The early cancer studies on immigrants, which started to appear some 50 years ago, showed that the incidence in cancers changes to the level of the new host country in one or two generations. These findings were fundamental to the understanding of the environmental etiology of human cancer. Many immigrant groups origi...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hemminki K,Försti A,Khyatti M,Anwar WA,Mousavi M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using longitudinal data from 32 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (1970-2010), this article investigates association between annual variations in road mortality and the economic fluctuations. Two regression models (fixed-effects and random-coefficients) were adopted for estimation...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Chen G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study analyses change in self-rated health of chronically ill people in relation to green space in their living environment at baseline. Data on 1112 people in the Netherlands with one or more medically diagnosed chronic disease(s) were used. The percentage of green space was calculated for postal cod...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Wolfe MK,Groenewegen PP,Rijken M,de Vries S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Out-of-pocket payments for health services constitute a major financial burden for patients in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Individuals who are unable to pay use different coping strategies (e.g. borrowing money or foregoing service utilization), which can have negative consequences on their...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Tambor M,Pavlova M,Rechel B,Golinowska S,Sowada C,Groot W

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:This study examines the effect of past tobacco control policies and projects the effect of future policies on smoking and snus use prevalence and associated premature mortality in Sweden. METHODS:The established SimSmoke model was adapted with population, smoking rates and tobacco control policy data from S...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Near AM,Blackman K,Currie LM,Levy DT

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of health outcomes were affected by previous financial crises, e.g. suicides, homicides and transport accident mortality. Aim of this study was to analyse the effects of the current financial crisis on selected health outcomes at population level in Europe. METHODS:A mixed approach of ecologic and ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Baumbach A,Gulis G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify changes in social inequalities for mammograms uptake in Belgium over the period 1997-2008 using multiple indices, and to assess the contribution of the national breast cancer screening programme in these changes. METHODS:Data were obtained from four waves of the Belgian Health Interview Survey. ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Renard F,Demarest S,Van Oyen H,Tafforeau J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aim to describe levels of awareness and uptake of colorectal, breast, cervical and prostate cancer screening tests and to analyze the association to socio-demographic and health-related variables. METHODS:Population-based cross-sectional study conducted using a home-based personal interview survey on a n...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Carrasco-Garrido P,Hernandez-Barrera V,Lopez de Andres A,Jimenez-Trujillo I,Gallardo Pino C,Jimenez-Garcıa R

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Preterm birth is a rising health problem in Europe generally, and in Austria specifically. Decision makers require objective information on the effects and costs of measures to prevent preterm birth. METHODS:We undertook a budget impact analysis from a public payer perspective and for a 1-year and 5-year ti...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Zechmeister-Koss I,Piso B

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To describe the pattern and determinants of working during pregnancy in rural China. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2009 in three provinces (Anhui, Chongqing and Shaanxi) in rural China among 3966 mothers who had recently given birth. Multilevel logistic regression was used to examine t...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Neupane S,Nwaru BI,Wu Z,Hemminki E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Area-based programmes are seen as a promising strategy for tackling health inequalities. In these programmes, local authorities and other local actors collaborate to employ health promoting interventions and policies. Little is known about the underlying processes of collaborative governance. To unravel this...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Plochg T,Schmidt M,Klazinga NS,Stronks K

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Partial implementation may explain modest effectiveness of many school-based preventive programmes against substance use. We studied whether specific characteristics of the class could predict the level of implementation of a curriculum delivered by class teachers in schools from some European countries. ME...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Caria MP,Faggiano F,Bellocco R,Galanti MR,EU-Dap Study Group.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The challenges for health care systems are evident both in terms of costs and of healthy life expectancy. It was the aim of this study to assess the access points towards the different levels of care and predictors for consulting a specialist without having consulted a general practitioner (GP), a common way...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hoffmann K,Stein KV,Maier M,Rieder A,Dorner TE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poor co-ordination and collaboration have been identified by many governments as a major and growing weakness of their health care systems. Better integrated care for the elderly individuals is one field of particular importance. In this study, we ask to what extent local authorities' social care services cr...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Holmås TH,Islam MK,Kjerstad E

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:As tuberculosis (TB) infection in childhood contributes to the pool of individuals with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) from which future tuberculosis cases arise, this study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with LTBI in schoolchildren and adolescents from Shanghai, China. ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hu Y,Zhao Q,Wu L,Wang W,Yuan Z,Xu B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) proposed and led PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe), with co-financing by the European Commission, to assess public health innovation and research at national level in Europe. PHIRE was also designed to promote organizational development and...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Zeegers Paget D,Barnhoorn F,McCarthy M,Alexanderson K,Conceição C,Devillé W,Grimaud O,Katreniakova Z,Narkauskaité L,Saliba A,Sammut M,Voss M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of migrant density in school on the well-being of pupils with a migrant origin in first as well as second generation. METHODS:Cross-sectional analysis of data from a national classroom survey of 15-year-old Swedish schoolchildren. The study population incl...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hjern A,Rajmil L,Bergström M,Berlin M,Gustafsson PA,Modin B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The international comparability of data from population-based cancer registries depends strongly on the completeness of case ascertainment. Furthermore, Austrian observed incidence rates suggest that the completeness of case ascertainment differs between Austrian federal states. Completeness of case ascertai...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hackl M,Waldhoer T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00