abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate the attitudes of paediatricians in private practice towards counselling smoking parents of infants on their smoking behaviour. METHODS:Questionnaires were mailed to 188 eligible paediatricians in Mecklenburg-West Pommerania. RESULTS:The response rate to this survey was 62%. With regard to ri...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hannöver W,Thyrian JR,John U

更新日期：2004-06-01 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:Net costs of smoking in a lifetime perspective and, hence, the economic interests in antismoking policies have been questioned. It has been proposed that the health-related costs of smoking are balanced by smaller expenditure due to shorter life expectancy. METHOD:A dynamic (life cycle) method taking differ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Rasmussen SR,Prescott E,Sørensen TI,Søgaard J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine the association between education and mortality for various causes of death in young adults in a community with a high rate of injection-drug users. METHODS:Linked mortality study based on mortality records for 1996 and 1997 and on 1996 population census data from the Region of Madrid (Spain). Th...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Regidor E,de la Fuente L,Calle ME,Navarro P,Domínguez V

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To analyse deprivation and AIDS among three AIDS transmission groups (men who have sex with men--MSM, heterosexuals, and intravenous drug users--IDUs) in Barcelona, Spain, during the period 1990-95. METHODS:This is an ecological study, the unit of analysis being the neighbourhoods. Included were AIDS cases r...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Brugal MT,Borrell C,Díaz-Quijano E,Pasarín MI,García-Olalla P,Villalbí JR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The EUROCISS Project (European Cardiovascular Indicators Surveillance Set), as part of the Health Monitoring Programme financed by the European Commission, has been implemented to develop health indicators and recommendations for the monitoring of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Morbidity data are rarely ava...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： EUROCISS Working Group.

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Renewed debates about the superiority of either predominantly public or predominantly private health services arrangements have tended to be more ideologically charged than conceptually precise. Historically, the public/private split in European systems has often been more sharply defined in principle than in practice...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Saltman RB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims at estimating the contribution of alcohol to socioeconomic mortality differentials in Sweden. METHODS:Data were obtained from a Census-linked Deaths Registry. Participants in the 1980 and 1990 censuses were included with a follow-up of mortality 1990-1995. Socioeconomic status was assigned f...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hemström O

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This article provides an overview of three approaches taken to illuminate the sociological contribution to the field of nutrition and inequalities, in the hope of prompting future researchers to pursue the lines of enquiry suggested. APPROACHES:Under the heading of inequalities in food use, the paper first ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Murcott A

更新日期：2002-09-01 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:In Kemerovo region (Siberia), three pre-trial detention centres (SIZO; Ministry of Justice) serve as the gateway to the penitentiary system, comprised of 23 prisons and 30,000 detainees. The follow-up for tuberculosis (TB) patients released into civil society is unreliable. Due to varying detention times and...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Slavuckij A,Sizaire V,Lobera L,Matthys F,Kimerling ME

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The funding and structure of health care is currently undergoing major changes. The impact of such changes on professional behaviour and working conditions have not been widely studied in Europe. The two aims of this study were to prospectively assess the impact of performance-based reimbursement on physicia...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Forsberg E,Axelsson R,Arnetz B

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many countries, the rates of breastfeeding fall far short of those recommended. National plans to promote breastfeeding are badly needed. We describe the results of a breastfeeding promotion programme planned by objectives and financial penalties in a small region of Italy. METHODS:This observational stu...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Cattaneo A,Borgnolo G,Simon G

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A problem common to all health care systems remains the translation of robust evidence into effective practice. Influenza vaccination has been reported to be an effective public health care intervention, but guidelines on coverage and subsequent uptake rates for vaccination across European countries vary substantially...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： McDaid D,Maynard A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to demonstrate the feasibility of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and related risk behaviour surveillance in European prisons, a multicentre pilot study was undertaken. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was carried out in six European prisons (France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sc...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Rotily M,Weilandt C,Bird SM,Käll K,Van Haastrecht HJ,Iandolo E,Rousseau S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to examine associations between unhealthy behaviours among the Finnish adult population. METHODS:Data from a series of cross-sectional health behaviour surveys from the years 1991-1998 were pooled. Associations between smoking, alcohol consumption, lack of regular physical activity ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Laaksonen M,Prättälä R,Karisto A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper addresses the extent to which equity of treatment according to need, as defined by self-reported health status, is received by members of ethnic minorities in Swedish health services. METHODS:The study was based on a multivariate analysis of cross-sectional data from the Swedish Survey of Living ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Hjern A,Haglund B,Persson G,Rosén M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of the use of androgenic anabolic steroids has been poorly studied in Europe. This study was undertaken to examine the prevalence of the misuse--the non-medical use--of androgenic anabolic steroids among adolescents in a county of Sweden. METHODS:The total population of 16 and 17 year old mal...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Nilsson S,Baigi A,Marklund B,Fridlund B

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this work was to study the prevalence and dimensionality of subjective health complaints in a cross-national population of adolescents. METHODS:The analyses were based on data from a WHO cross-national survey, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC). The study included a representativ...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Haugland S,Wold B,Stevenson J,Aaroe LE,Woynarowska B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many clinicians, medical practitioners and decision makers have no formal training in epidemiology but need to understand and sometimes evaluate results in epidemiologic studies. This paper attempts to give guidance to non-epidemiologists on how to read and evaluate the quality of epidemiologic studies and their resul...

journal_title：European journal of public health

authors： Blettner M,Heuer C,Razum O

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00