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Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA
Background This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11–43) ...
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Housing and inequalities in health: a study of socioeconomic dimensions of housing and self reported health from a survey of Vancouver residents
Study objective: To investigate the relation between housing, socioeconomic status, and self reported general and mental health. This study is an empirical investigation of social and economic ...
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Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits
Background Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of ...
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Persistent organic pollutants: potential health effects?
1 International Programme on Chemical Safety, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA 2 International Programme on Chemical Safety, Geneva, Switzerland Correspondence to: Tim Meredith, ...
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Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of ...
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Associations between extreme weather events and child undernutrition: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 2010–2019
Background Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the ...
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Life expectancy as a summary of mortality in a population: statistical considerations and suitability for use by health authorities
Dr Silcocks, Trent Institute for Health Services Research, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH (p.b.silcocks{at}nottingham.ac.uk) OBJECTIVE To investigate the sampling ...
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Why don't patients do their exercises? Understanding non-compliance with physiotherapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee
STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...
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Ethnic inequalities in limiting health and self-reported health in later life revisited
Correspondence to Professor Maria Evandrou, Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; ...
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P1-179 The Southampton women's survey: from epidemiology to policy
Introduction Epidemiological studies inform understanding of influences on health. Findings can lead directly to policy changes, but such changes need assessing, using formal intervention studies.
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Greenness and allergies: evidence of differential associations in two areas in Germany
6 Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany 7 IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for ...