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Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study
Dr Salomaa, KTL-National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland (veikko.salomaa{at}ktl.fi) OBJECTIVE To examine ...
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The use of parental occupation in adolescent health surveys. An application of ISCO-based measures of occupational status
Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...
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Association between allostatic load and health behaviours: a latent class approach
Correspondence to Dr Sarah N Forrester, Quantitative Health Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; sarah.forrester{at}umassmed.edu Background ...
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Socioeconomic variations in the prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease: a population-based analysis
3 Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 4 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Correspondence to Dr Lisa M Lix, School of ...
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Management of menorrhagia in primary care—impact on referral and hysterectomy: data from the Somerset Morbidity Project
SETTING 11 general practices from the Somerset Morbidity Project. SUBJECTS 885 women consulting their general practitioner with menorrhagia over four years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportions of these ...
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Environmental and health impacts of ‘fracking’: why epidemiological studies are necessary
Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...
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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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Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance
4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...
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The impact of childhood residential mobility on mental health outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood: a record linkage study
Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...
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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, ...
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Sex ratios at birth among second-generation mothers of South Asian ethnicity in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective population-based cohort study
Background Son-biased sex ratios at birth (M:F), an extreme manifestation of son preference, are predominately found in East and South Asia. Studies have examined sex ratios among first-generation ...