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Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk
Purpose This retrospective cohort study aimed to investigate the association between chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) and the ...
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Increasing active travel: results of a quasi-experimental study of an intervention to encourage walking and cycling
3 NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities and Massey University SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, Auckland, New Zealand 4 NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, and Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, ...
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Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Background Childhood adversities, such as exposure to parental mental illness, domestic violence and abuse, substance use, and family poverty, have been linked to involvement in violence in early ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities
This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on international research ...
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Ecological perspectives in health research
1 Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada 2 International Collaborative Centre for the Study of Social and Physical Environment and ...
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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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Retest reliability of surveillance questions on health related quality of life
1 Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Department of Community Health, Salus Center, St Louis, USA 2 Saint Louis University College of Public Service, Department of Research Methodology, St ...
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How are policy makers using evidence? Models of research utilisation and local NHS policy making
National Primary Care Research and Development Centre at Salford, Public Health Research Resource Centre, The University of Salford, Humphrey Booth House, Hulme Place, The Crescent, Salford M5 4 NY ...
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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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Effectiveness of comprehensive social support interventions among elderly patients with tuberculosis in communities in China: a community-based trial
Correspondence to Dr Yihua Xu, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong ...
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Perceived discrimination is associated with health behaviours among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Background Using Jackson Heart Study data, we examined associations of multiple measures of perceived discrimination with health behaviours among African-Americans (AA). Methods The cross-sectional ...