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Education and health and well-being: direct and indirect effects with multiple mediators and interactions with multiple imputed data in Stata

Correspondence to Mr Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh, Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway; senor_massao{at}hotmail.com Background Previous methods for assessing mediation ...
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Ethnic group, socioeconomic position and pregnancy outcome: a mediation model through latent class

Background Preterm birth (PTB) and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) disproportionately affect women who are Black or Asian. Structural racism produces health inequalities. Identifying latent ...
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Are there any sociodemographic factors associated with non-uptake of HPV vaccination of girls in high-income countries with school-based vaccination programmes? A systematic review

Background Uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is generally high in high-income countries with school-based vaccination programmes; however, lower uptake in certain population subgroups ...
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Heat-related mortality: a review and exploration of heterogeneity

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...
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Does cessation of community water fluoridation lead to an increase in tooth decay? A systematic review of published studies

Background Cessation of community water fluoridation (CWF) appears to be occurring with increasing frequency in some regions. Our objective was to comprehensively review published research on the ...
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Life course epidemiology: recognising the importance of adolescence

3 MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at University College London, London, UK Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of ...
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Characterisation of smoking behaviour across the life course and its impact on decline in lung function and all-cause mortality: evidence from a British birth cohort

Objectives: To describe smoking trajectories from early adolescence into mid-life and to examine the effects of these trajectories on health and all-cause mortality. Methods: A nationally ...
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Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)

Correspondence to Miss Preveina Mahadevan, CPRD, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, London E14, UK; preveina.mahadevan{at}mhra.gov.uk Background The Clinical Practice Research ...
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No effect of classroom sharing on educational achievement in twins: a prospective, longitudinal cohort study

Correspondence to Dr T J C Polderman, Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; jc.polderman{at}psy.vu.nl Background ...
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Neighbourhood influences on health

Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to: Professor I Kawachi Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington ...
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Association of education levels with the risk of hypertension and hypertension control: a nationwide cohort study in Chinese adults

7 Union Hospital, Tong-ji Medical College, Hua-zhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China 8 Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, China 9 Second ...
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A dictionary of epidemiology

University of São Paulo, School of Dentistry, 2227 Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 05508–900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil; leopoldo{at}usp.br If you wish to reuse any or all of ...