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Newspaper reporting of suicides in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Guangzhou: compliance with WHO media guidelines and epidemiological comparisons
1 Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China 2 HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, and Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The ...
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Determinants of self assessed health among Spanish older people living at home.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To identify the main determinants of self assessed health among community dwelling elderly. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: A representative sample of 677 people aged 65 and over of the ...
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How stakeholder participation can contribute to systematic reviews of complex interventions
1 University of Sheffield, School of Health & Related Research, Sheffield, England 2 University of Sheffield, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Sheffield, England 3 University of Alberta, Centre for ...
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Is socioeconomic position associated with bronchiolitis seasonality? A cohort study
Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Kate Lewis, Department of Population, Policy and ...
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Intimate partner violence against young women: prevalence and associated factors in Europe
1 National School of Public Health, Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain 2 CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Background The magnitude of intimate partner ...
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Abortion and breast cancer
Goldacre et al 1 use an impressively large database (28 616 cases and 325 456 controls) and an observed/expected ratio significantly below unity (0.83; 95% CI 0.74 to 0.93) in their record linkage ...
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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 ...
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Behavioural interventions for CVD risk reduction for blue-collar workers: a systematic review
Correspondence to Dr Melissa M Crane, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA; Melissa_M_Crane{at}rush.edu Objectives Individuals working in blue-collar ...
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Evaluating place-based programmes for health improvement
Correspondence to Dr James R Dunn, Department of Health, Aging & Society, Kenneth Taylor Hall, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4; jim.dunn{at}mcmaster.ca ...
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The use of parental occupation in adolescent health surveys. An application of ISCO-based measures of occupational status
Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...
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Accounting for uncertainty about investigator bias: disclosure is informative
Dr Sander Greenland, Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA; lesdomes{at}ucla.edu Biasing of studies towards results desired by the ...
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Provision of pen along with questionnaire does not increase the response rate to a postal survey: a randomised controlled trial
Postal surveys are a cost effective method of obtaining information from large numbers of geographically disparate medical professionals about their attributes, behaviours, attitudes and beliefs. The ...