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‘Renoviction’ and health: an emerging research agenda
Mitigating climate change requires us to rapidly improve the energy efficiency of our existing housing, a process known as ‘retrofit’. However, this creates the risk of ‘renoviction’, whereby tenants ...
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Association between neighbourhood deprivation and hypertension in a US-wide Cohort
Background Socioeconomic status (SES) at the individual level is associated with hypertension risk. Less is known about neighbourhood level SES or how neighbourhood and individual level SES may ...
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Adult height is associated with risk of cancer and mortality in 5.5 million Swedish women and men
Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...
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Medication adherence in community-dwelling older people exposed to chronic polypharmacy
Background To evaluate medication adherence and associated factors of seven of the most common drug classes prescribed to community-dwelling older people. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study ...
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Housing and health inequities during COVID-19: findings from the national Household Pulse Survey
Correspondence to Gregory Bushman, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; gbushman{at}umich.edu Background ...
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Socioeconomic status across the early life course predicts gene expression signatures of disease and senescence
Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with many chronic diseases, indicators of senescence and mortality. However, the changing salience of SES in the prediction of adult health is not ...
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Enhancing the evidence base for health impact assessment
the pragmatic need to inform decision makers regardless of the quality of the evidence. These have implications for commissioning and conducting reviews. Methods must be developed to: facilitate ...
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Interdisciplinary research in public health: the ‘why’ and the ‘how’
Correspondence to Dr Joelle Kivits, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France; joelle.kivits{at}univ-lorraine.fr Public health constitutes ...
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Spatial social polarisation: using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes jointly for income and race/ethnicity to analyse risk of hypertension
Correspondence to Justin M Feldman, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...
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The power of a test for seasonality.
The power of a test of Edwards to detect seasonality or cyclic variation in the rate of an epidemiological event is derived and tabulated. A simple harmonic or sinusoidal form of variation is assumed, ...
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Childhood and adolescence risk factors and development of depressive symptoms: the 32-year prospective Young Finns follow-up study
Background Environmental risks in childhood have been shown to predict later depressive symptoms. In this study, we examined whether various environmental risk domains in childhood and adolescence, ...
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Doctor Aleu, the first woman doctor in Spain
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