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Postpartum emergency department use among women with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a retrospective cohort study
Background An emerging body of evidence underscores the often-intensive perinatal healthcare needs of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, population-based research ...
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Relationship between multiple unemployment spells and cardiovascular disease mortality in South Korean workers
Background It is necessary to explore the health problems of vulnerable workers who experience repeated unemployment spells. The number of unemployment spells should be considered in the relationship ...
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Income in epidemiological research: a guide to measurement and analytical treatment with a case study on mental disorders and mortality
Background Income is one of the most widely used indicators of socioeconomic position in studies of health inequalities. Despite its frequent use, no empirical-driven guidelines exist on how to ...
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Diabetes prevalence and socioeconomic status: a population based study showing increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in deprived areas
OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...
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Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and severe maternal morbidity and mortality in high-income countries: a systematic review
Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is among the most important determinants of variations in health outcomes. This systematic review aimed to summarise the association between socioeconomic ...
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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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Overall mortality among patients surviving an episode of peptic ulcer bleeding
STUDY OBJECTIVE The authors investigated whether patients who have survived an acute episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (PUB) have an excess long term all cause mortality compared with the general ...
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Conceptual diagrams in public health research
1 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University and Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University ...
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The association between green space and mental health varies across the lifecourse. A longitudinal study
Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...
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Role of allostatic load and health behaviours in explaining socioeconomic disparities in mortality: a structural equation modelling approach
Correspondence to Professor Sun Ha Jee, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion and Institute of Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, the Republic of ...
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The arithmetic of reducing relative and absolute inequalities in health: a theoretical analysis illustrated with European mortality data
3 Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’épidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Paris, France Correspondence to Professor Johan P Mackenbach, ...
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Fish consumption and risk of depression: a meta-analysis
Correspondence to Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266021, People's Republic ...