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Infant mortality rate as an indicator of population health
Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...
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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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Multilevel assessment of prenatal engagement in home visiting
Correspondence to Dr Neera K Goyal, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., ML# 7009, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; neera.goyal{at}cchmc.org Background ...
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Impact of changes in mode of travel to work on changes in body mass index: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
1 Health Economics Group and UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 3 Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York ...
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Heat-related mortality: a review and exploration of heterogeneity
Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...
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Factors associated with pregnancy among adolescents in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a systematic review
Correspondence to Rina Pradhan, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 99 Commercial Road, Prahran, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; rina.pradhan ...
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Economic crises and suicides between 1970 and 2011: time trend study in 21 developed countries
2 Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Finland 3 Medical Research Centre Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Finland Correspondence to Dr Sanna Huikari, ...
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Socioeconomic inequality in drug reimbursement during end-of-life care: a nationwide study
Correspondence to Cecilie Daugaard, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8200 Aarhus, Denmark; cecilie.daugaard{at}gmail.com Background In Denmark, patients who are ...
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Volunteering is associated with increased survival in able-bodied participants of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Background Volunteering has been linked to reduced mortality in older adults, but the mechanisms explaining this effect remain unclear. This study investigated whether volunteering is associated with ...
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Socioeconomic status and risk of car crash injury, independent of place of residence and driving exposure: results from the DRIVE Study
Background Previous studies that found increased crash risks for young drivers of low socioeconomic status (SES) have failed to adjust for factors such as driving exposure and rural residence. This ...
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Flexible employment and health inequalities
Correspondence to: Professor F G Benavides Occupational Health Research Unit, Department of Health and Experimental Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; fernando.benavidesupf.edu A ...