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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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Stressful social relations and mortality: a prospective cohort study
3 Section of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Rikke Lund, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University ...
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Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study
Dr Salomaa, KTL-National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland (veikko.salomaa{at}ktl.fi) OBJECTIVE To examine ...
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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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Time for bed: associations with cognitive performance in 7-year-old children: a longitudinal population-based study
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Yvonne Kelly, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 ...
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Association between allostatic load and health behaviours: a latent class approach
Correspondence to Dr Sarah N Forrester, Quantitative Health Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; sarah.forrester{at}umassmed.edu Background ...
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Environmental and health impacts of ‘fracking’: why epidemiological studies are necessary
Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...
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Socioeconomic factors and the risk of eye diseases in an elderly Danish population
Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, including glaucoma, cataract and retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in an elderly Danish ...
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Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance
4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...
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The impact of childhood residential mobility on mental health outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood: a record linkage study
Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...
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Sex ratios at birth among second-generation mothers of South Asian ethnicity in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective population-based cohort study
Background Son-biased sex ratios at birth (M:F), an extreme manifestation of son preference, are predominately found in East and South Asia. Studies have examined sex ratios among first-generation ...