Journal: Journal of epidemiology and community health
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‘First, do no harm’: are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published about 5 years ago
- Discuss
In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist-the Work Capability Assessment. Doctors and disability rights organisations have raised concerns that this has had an adverse effect on the mental health of claimants, but there are no population level studies exploring the health effects of this or similar policies.
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Dietary intake and age at natural menopause: results from the UK Women’s Cohort Study
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published over 2 years ago
- Discuss
Age at natural menopause is a matter of concern for women of reproductive age as both an early or late menopause may have implications for health outcomes.
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Affective stimuli in behavioural interventions soliciting for health check-up services and the service users' socioeconomic statuses: a study at Japanese pachinko parlours
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published about 3 years ago
- Discuss
Socioeconomically vulnerable people are likely to have more health risks because of inadequate behaviour choices related to chronic social stresses. Brain science suggests that stress causes cognitively biased automatic decision making, preferring instant stress relief and pleasure (eg, smoking, alcohol use and drug abuse) as opposed to reflectively seeking health-maintenance services (eg, health check-ups). As such, hedonic stimuli that nudge people towards preventive actions could reduce health behaviour disparities. The purpose of this intervention study was to test this hypothesis.
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Quantifying the impact of the Public Health Responsibility Deal on salt intake, cardiovascular disease and gastric cancer burdens: interrupted time series and microsimulation study
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published over 1 year ago
- Discuss
In 2011, England introduced the Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD), a public-private partnership (PPP) which gave greater freedom to the food industry to set and monitor targets for salt intakes. We estimated the impact of the RD on trends in salt intake and associated changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and gastric cancer (GCa) incidence, mortality and economic costs in England from 2011-2025.
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Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published 4 months ago
- Discuss
There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown and differences across population subgroups.
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Impact of changes in mode of travel to work on changes in body mass index: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published over 5 years ago
- Discuss
Active commuting is associated with various health benefits, but little is known about its causal relationship with body mass index (BMI).
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Academics and competing interests in H1N1 influenza media reporting
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published about 7 years ago
- Discuss
Concerns have been raised over competing interests (CoI) among academics during the 2009 to 2010 A/H1N1 pandemic. Media reporting can influence public anxiety and demand for pharmaceutical products. We assessed CoI of academics providing media commentary during the early stages of the pandemic.
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Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published almost 4 years ago
- Discuss
Public sector austerity measures in many high-income countries mean that public health budgets are reducing year on year. To help inform the potential impact of these proposed disinvestments in public health, we set out to determine the return on investment (ROI) from a range of existing public health interventions.
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Suicide among persons who entered same-sex and opposite-sex marriage in Denmark and Sweden, 1989-2016: a binational, register-based cohort study
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published about 1 year ago
- Discuss
People belonging to sexual minority groups have higher levels of suicidality than heterosexuals. However, findings regarding suicide death are sparse. Using unique national data from two countries, we investigated whether individuals entering a same-sex marriage (SSM), a proxy group of sexual minority individuals, had higher suicide rates than those entering opposite-sex marriage (OSM).
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Changes in marital quality over 6 years and its association with cardiovascular disease risk factors in men: findings from the ALSPAC prospective cohort study
- OPEN
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
- Published over 3 years ago
- Discuss
Marital relationship quality has been suggested to have independent effects on cardiovascular health outcomes. This study investigates the association between changes in marital relationship quality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in men.