Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Invited commentary on: Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the U…

The paper by Xue et al investigated the effects of the 2014 UK policy reform that extended the ‘right to request’ flexible ...
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Examining intervention mechanisms of action using mediation analysis within a randomised trial of a whole-school health intervention

Background Interventions to modify school environments are effective in promoting young people’s health across outcomes, but mechanisms are poorly understood. We assessed mediation in a trial of the ...
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OP41 The representativeness of the UK Biobank cohort on a range of sociodemographic, physical, lifestyle and health-related characteristics

Background UK Biobank (UKB) is a population-based cohort study of half a million participants aged 40–69 recruited between 2006 and 2010 in England, Wales and Scotland. In order to investigate the ...
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Combined lifestyle factors, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health ...
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A heuristic approach to the formulas for population attributable fraction

BACKGROUND As the definitional formula for population attributable fraction is not usually directly usable in applications, separate estimation formulas are required. However, most epidemiology ...
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Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale and its relation with quality of life: a systematic review

Dr M Eriksson, Health Promotion Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Paasikivigatan 4, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland; monica.eriksson{at}folkhalsan.fi The aim of this paper is to synthesise ...
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The Great Recession, unemployment and suicide

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...
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Incidence and costs of unintentional falls in older people in the United Kingdom

1 York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, University of York, UK 2 Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Scuffham, York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, ...
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Diseases of comfort: primary cause of death in the 22nd century

1 Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC); Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto; Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada 2 UK Public Health ...
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Gain a child, lose a tooth? Using natural experiments to distinguish between fact and fiction

Correspondence to Professor Stefan Listl, Department of Dentistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; stefan.listl{at}radboudumc.nl Background Dental diseases are among ...
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Associations of financial strain and income with depressive and anxiety disorders

Correspondence to Sandra M A Dijkstra-Kersten, Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine, Medicine and the EMGO+Institute for Health and Care Research (EMGO+), VU University Medical ...
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The association between green space and mental health varies across the lifecourse. A longitudinal study

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...