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Effectiveness of comprehensive social support interventions among elderly patients with tuberculosis in communities in China: a community-based trial
Correspondence to Dr Yihua Xu, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong ...
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Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
3 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Center for Social, Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, USA Correspondence to: Dr B Galobardes Department of Social ...
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Dietary intake and age at natural menopause: results from the UK Women’s Cohort Study
Correspondence to Miss Yashvee Dunneram, Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; fsyd{at}leeds.ac.uk Background Age at natural ...
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Why reduce health inequalities?
It is well known that social, cultural and economic factors cause substantial inequalities in health. Should we strive to achieve a more even share of good health, beyond improving the average health ...
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Incidence and costs of unintentional falls in older people in the United Kingdom
1 York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, University of York, UK 2 Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Scuffham, York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, ...
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Adolescents' proxy reports of parents' socioeconomic status: How valid are they?
STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...
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Sex differences in the relationship between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...
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Retest reliability of surveillance questions on health related quality of life
1 Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Department of Community Health, Salus Center, St Louis, USA 2 Saint Louis University College of Public Service, Department of Research Methodology, St ...
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Childlessness, parental mortality and psychiatric illness: a natural experiment based on in vitro fertility treatment and adoption
1 CIRRAU—Centre for Integrated Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 2 National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 3 The Danish Clinical ...
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Ecological perspectives in health research
1 Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada 2 International Collaborative Centre for the Study of Social and Physical Environment and ...
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Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk
Purpose This retrospective cohort study aimed to investigate the association between chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) and the ...