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Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal St…

Background The ‘right to request’ flexible working policy has been gradually extended and, by 2014, extended to cover all ...
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Helmet use among cyclists and motorcyclists involved in media-reported road traffic crashes after implementation of the national ‘One Helmet, One Belt’ campaign in Ch…

Background China implemented the ‘One Helmet, One Belt’ road safety campaign in April 2020 to improve helmet use among ...
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Framework and key considerations for designing and conducting critical mixed-methods research (cMMR)

Mixed-methods research leverages the strengths of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and methods to generate a comprehensive understanding of phenomena. There is ample guidance about ...
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A glossary for health inequalities

Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Correspondence to: Professor I Kawachi, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 ...
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Sex differences in the relationship between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...
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Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...
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Evidence, hierarchies, and typologies: horses for courses

Debate is ongoing about the nature and use of evidence in public health decision making, and there seems to be an emerging consensus that the “hierarchy of evidence” may be difficult to apply in other ...
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Estimating causal effects from epidemiological data

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA 2 Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Correspondence to: Dr M A Hernán Department ...
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A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.
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Childhood conscientiousness predicts the social gradient of smoking in adulthood: a life course analysis

Correspondence to Dr Michael Pluess, Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK ...
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How a universal health system reduces inequalities: lessons from England

5 Institute of Health Equity, University College London, London, UK 6 School of Health Sciences, City University London, London, UK Background Provision of universal coverage is essential for ...
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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 ...