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Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA
Background This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11–43) ...
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Ethnic inequalities in limiting health and self-reported health in later life revisited
Correspondence to Professor Maria Evandrou, Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; ...
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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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Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
3 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Center for Social, Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, USA Correspondence to: Dr B Galobardes Department of Social ...
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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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Maternal mental health, and child growth and development, in four low-income and middle-income countries
1 Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 2 The Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Objective Extend ...
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The origins of AIDS: from patient zero to ground zero
Correspondence to Dr Jacques Pépin, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS, 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Qc J1H 5N4, Canada; ...
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The relationship between early childhood head injury and later life criminal behaviour: a longitudinal cohort study
Background Childhood head injury has been associated with the development of behavioural and psychological problems. This study examined the relationship between head injury in young childhood and ...
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Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective To evaluate the impact of persistent precarious employment (lasting 12+ months) on the health of working age adults, compared with more stable employment. Persistent precarity reflects a ...
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Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty: the Women’s Health and Aging Studies
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Background: Frailty is a ...
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Smoking and suicide: biological and social evidence and causal mechanisms
Smoking as a risk factor for death by suicide has been a controversial area of inquiry. Over the last 20 years, there has been an expanding body of literature demonstrating that smokers have an ...
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Longer breastfeeding duration reduces the positive relationships among gestational weight gain, birth weight and childhood anthropometrics
3 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Yeyi Zhu, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health ...