Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health articles from January 2001

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health archives from January 2001

Housing matters.
January 1, 2001... Public health practitioners all over the world are aware of the crucial importance of housing conditions in shaping the health of populations. In contrast, the relations between housing and health rarely attract the interest of mainstream...

Ensuring shelter in Eastern Europe.
January 1, 2001... The Communist age is now history. But all across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, more than 170 million people continue to live in the soulless, decaying housing complexes that are among the most enduring legacies from that time....

A vision for public health development.
January 1, 2001... Public health has developed over time to encompass a range of issues including poverty, sanitation, working conditions, hygiene, health screening, immunisation, personal lifestyles and, more latterly, community and organisational development....

The social patterning of teenage pregnancy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Teenage pregnancy has been viewed with increasing concern in recent years. In the United Kingdom, the issue became a public health priority through the incorporation of targets for reducing teenage pregnancy in the "Health of the Nation"...

The life course, childhood housing conditions and adult health.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of the life course from pregnancy, [1] childhood, [2] and adulthood. [3] Life course epidemiology has added a further dimension to our understanding of the...

The completeness of AIDS surveillance in Europe: difficulties and new challenges.
January 1, 2001... The aim of epidemiological monitoring is to describe, as realistically as possible, the magnitude, evolution and distribution of a disease or health problem affecting a given population. In most instances this goal is not fully attainable,...

Population change and mortality in men and women.
January 1, 2001... The association between population change and mortality has been investigated for over a century. In the Supplement to the 35th Annual Report of the Registrar-General (1861-1870) it was evident that rapidly urbanising areas, with increasing...

Childhood housing conditions and later mortality in the Boyd Orr cohort.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--To examine associations between five measures of housing conditions during childhood and subsequent mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Design--Historical cohort study. ...

Teenage childbearing in Great Britain and the spatial concentration of poverty households.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To investigate the association between the spatial concentration of deprived households and teenage non-marital childbearing. Associations with area deprivation are tested before and after allowing for levels of...

Decline of the relative risk of death associated with low employment grade at older age: the impact of age related differences in smoking, blood pressure and plasma cholesterol.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To explore whether the observed age related decline in the relative risk of death associated with low employment grade can be explained by the profiles of smoking, blood pressure and plasma cholesterol changing...

Dietary patterns among a national random sample of British adults.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--To identify groups within the UK male and female population who report similar patterns of diet. Design--National representative dietary survey, using seven day weighed dietary records, of men and women aged...

Life expectancy as a summary of mortality in a population: statistical considerations and suitability for use by health authorities.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To investigate the sampling distribution and usefulness of expectation of life in comparisons of mortality at health district level or below. Design--Derivation of a formula for the variance of the expectation of...

A multilevel analysis of the effects of rurality and social deprivation on premature limiting long term illness.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To examine the geographical variation in self perceived morbidity in the south west of England, and assess the associations with rurality and social deprivation. Design--A geographically based cross sectional...

How complete is AIDS surveillance in Europe? An eagle eye comparison with mortality data.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--Preliminary assessment of the adequacy of AIDS surveillance efforts in Europe by comparing data from two official sources--AIDS surveillance and mortality statistics. Methods--The study used ENAADS (European...

Air pollution and emergency hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Valencia, Spain.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To estimate the short-term association between air pollution levels and emergency hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Valencia, Within 1994-1996 period. Design--Daily levels of air pollution and...

A characterisation of patient drop outs in a cohort of HIV positive homosexual/bisexual men and intravenous drug users.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... and the Pulmonary Complications of Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Study Group Enrollees in a study who cease participation for one reason or another can create problems for those who analyse and interpret the data. These problems include...

Tobacco consumption and bladder cancer in non-coffee drinkers.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Tobacco consumption is the principal known risk factor for urinary bladder cancer. This relation has been analytically characterised on the basis of different aspects of the smoking habit (inhalation pattern, tobacco type, duration). [1,2]...