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Public health unit funding per capita and seasonal influenza vaccination among youth and adults in Ontario, Canada in 2013/2014 and 2018/2019
Background Influenza vaccines are crucial in reducing the risk of influenza symptoms. We aimed to: (1) estimate the ...
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Changing relationship between income inequality and mortality
The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality ...
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Burden of postmenopausal breast cancer attributable to excess body weight: comparative study of body mass index and CUN-BAE in MCC-Spain study
Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...
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Association of housing tenure and unaffordable housing with preterm birth and other adverse birth outcomes in Canada: a population-based study
Background Socioeconomic risk factors are known drivers of adverse birth outcomes. Housing is a key target for policy interventions. Objective To estimate the associations of housing tenure (renting ...
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Modelling the impact of a healthy diet on cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality
Background Quantifying the potential health benefits of improvements in the nutritional quality of the average diet of a population would provide evidence for resource allocation between ...
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Secular trends in physical fitness and body size in Lithuanian children and adolescents between 1992 and 2012
1 Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania 2 Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania Correspondence to Dr Tomas Venckunas, Institute of Sport ...
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Community-based cooking programme ‘Eat Better Feel Better’ can improve child and family eating behaviours in low socioeconomic groups
Background The immediate and sustained impacts of the Eat Better Feel Better cooking programme (EBFBCP) on food choices and eating behaviours in families and children were evaluated. Methods The ...
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Appendicectomy, tonsillectomy, and inflammatory bowel disease: a case-control record linkage study
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr M J Goldacre, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, ...
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P1-127 Spatial and temporal dynamics of dengue fever cases in Araraquara city, Brazil
Background Dengue fever represents a serious public health issue in Brazil. Araraquara is a city, in state of São Paulo that has been having serious outbreaks of dengue fever in the last decade, in ...
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Environmental factors and hospitalisation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a rural county of England
School of Allied Health Professions, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Dr A Jones, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK; ...
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The Australian epidemic of cardiovascular mortality 1935–2005: effects of period and birth cohort
1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, ...
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Tailoring health services to the needs of individual communities.
In order to assess the need for community health services in different neighbourhoods within Greater Glasgow, it was decided to present a wide variety of health information for each community as a set ...