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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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What is the lag time between income inequality and health status?
a Department of Health and Social Behavior, and the Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA, b Division of Public Health Practice, ...
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Impact of lifestyle risk factors on admission to nursing home care: a cohort study of 127 108 people aged 60 years and over
Correspondence to Dr Alice A Gibson, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
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Where do people live longer and shorter lives? An ecological study of old-age survival across 4404 small areas from 18 European countries
1 i3S—Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 2 INEB—Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 3 ISPUP—Institute of Public ...
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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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Skeletal muscle mass in relation to 10 year cardiovascular disease incidence among middle aged and older adults: the ATTICA study
Background Skeletal muscle mass (SMM) is inversely associated with cardiometabolic health and the ageing process. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the relation between SMM and 10 year ...
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Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study
Background A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders.
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Occupational epidemiology and work related inequalities in health: a gender perspective for two complementary approaches to work and health research
Objectives: To provide a framework for epidemiological research on work and health that combines classic occupational epidemiology and the consideration of work in a structural perspective focused on ...
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Glossary for public health surveillance in the age of data science
Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the resulting information to those responsible ...