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Changing prevalence of psychosocial occupational stressors and their impact on employee mental health across birth cohorts
Background Mental illness is the leading cause of employee absence and vocational disability in many countries. The Job Demand-Control model posits that risk factors for mental illness include ...
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Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study
Background The ageing workforce in China poses a challenge to the healthcare and social systems. This study investigated the association between employment categories and self-rated health (SRH) among ...
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Meeting the health needs of young people
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Age-related and socioeconomic inequalities in timeliness of referral and start of treatment in colorectal cancer: a population-based analysis
Background Poorer colorectal cancer survival in the UK than in similar countries may be partly due to delays in the care pathway. To address this, cancer waiting time targets were established. We ...
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Iodine intake from supplements and diet during pregnancy and child cognitive and motor development: the INMA Mother and Child Cohort Study
Background The effect of mild-to-moderate maternal iodine deficiency on the neuropsychological development of their offspring is uncertain. We aimed to assess the association between iodine status ...
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Adult height is associated with risk of cancer and mortality in 5.5 million Swedish women and men
Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...
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Bullying and bystander behaviour and health outcomes among adolescents in Ireland
1 Health Promotion Research Centre, School of Health Sciences, NUI Galway, Ireland 2 Children’s Studies, School of Languages, NUI Galway, Ireland Correspondence to Mary Callaghan, Health Promotion ...
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How do early-life factors explain social inequalities in adolescent mental health? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Background Reducing inequalities in adolescent mental health is a public health priority, yet the pathways that link social conditions to mental health outcomes in the early years are unclear. We ...
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A heuristic approach to the formulas for population attributable fraction
BACKGROUND As the definitional formula for population attributable fraction is not usually directly usable in applications, separate estimation formulas are required. However, most epidemiology ...
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A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people
Study objective: (1) To provide a didactic and conceptual (rather than mathematical) link between multilevel regression analysis (MLRA) and social epidemiological concepts. (2) To develop an ...
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Air quality warnings and outdoor activities: evidence from Southern California using a regression discontinuity design
Correspondence to Matthew Neidell, Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, 600 W. 168th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA; mn2191{at}columbia.edu Background A study ...