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Evaluation of the UNREST questionnaire for testing the social resistance framework
2 Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston ...
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Alcohol control policies and alcohol consumption: an international comparison of 167 countries
Background Alcohol control policy has a fundamental role in limiting negative health, economic and social harm caused by alcohol consumption. However, there is substantial international heterogeneity ...
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Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality
OBJECTIVES Height is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease mortality risk and has shown variable associations with cancer incidence and mortality. The interpretation of findings from ...
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Impact of lifestyle risk factors on admission to nursing home care: a cohort study of 127 108 people aged 60 years and over
Correspondence to Dr Alice A Gibson, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
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Where do people live longer and shorter lives? An ecological study of old-age survival across 4404 small areas from 18 European countries
1 i3S—Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 2 INEB—Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 3 ISPUP—Institute of Public ...
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Socioeconomic factors and the risk of eye diseases in an elderly Danish population
Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, including glaucoma, cataract and retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in an elderly Danish ...
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Impact of lockdown on key workers: findings from the COVID-19 survey in four UK national longitudinal studies
Background Key workers played a pivotal role during the national lockdown in the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although protective measures have been taken, the impact of the pandemic on key ...
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Patterns of cannabis use during adolescence and their association with harmful substance use behaviour: findings from a UK birth cohort
Background Evidence on the role of cannabis as a gateway drug is inconsistent. We characterise patterns of cannabis use among UK teenagers aged 13–18 years, and assess their influence on problematic ...
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Occupational epidemiology and work related inequalities in health: a gender perspective for two complementary approaches to work and health research
Objectives: To provide a framework for epidemiological research on work and health that combines classic occupational epidemiology and the consideration of work in a structural perspective focused on ...
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Physical, emotional and sexual adolescent abuse victimisation in South Africa: prevalence, incidence, perpetrators and locations
4 Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 5 UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti, ...
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Glossary for public health surveillance in the age of data science
Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the resulting information to those responsible ...