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Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA
Background This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11–43) ...
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Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits
Background Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of ...
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Combined oral contraceptives, smoking, and cardiovascular risk.
UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess age ...
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Pinpointing the sources of the Asian mortality advantage in the USA
Correspondence to Francesco Acciai, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 211 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802, USA; fya5038{at}psu.edu Background Asian–Americans outlive ...
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Housing and inequalities in health: a study of socioeconomic dimensions of housing and self reported health from a survey of Vancouver residents
Study objective: To investigate the relation between housing, socioeconomic status, and self reported general and mental health. This study is an empirical investigation of social and economic ...
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Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of ...
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Associations between extreme weather events and child undernutrition: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 2010–2019
Background Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the ...
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Why don't patients do their exercises? Understanding non-compliance with physiotherapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee
STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...
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Life expectancy as a summary of mortality in a population: statistical considerations and suitability for use by health authorities
Dr Silcocks, Trent Institute for Health Services Research, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH (p.b.silcocks{at}nottingham.ac.uk) OBJECTIVE To investigate the sampling ...
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Ethnic inequalities in limiting health and self-reported health in later life revisited
Correspondence to Professor Maria Evandrou, Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; ...
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Fluoride exposure and indicators of thyroid functioning in the Canadian population: implications for community water fluoridation
Correspondence to Dr Lindsay McLaren, Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary TRW3, 3280 Hospital Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N ...