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WEB23 hours ago · is a global journal focusing on socioeconomic determinants of health and population-level interventions. JECH is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. JECH is a leading international journal devoted to publication of original research and reviews covering applied, methodological and theoretical issues with emphasis on studies using ...
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WEBAims and scope. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is a truly international journal that encompasses all aspects of epidemiology and public health. It publishes original research, opinions and materials concerned with the study and improvement of communities worldwide. For information about Journal of …
Causation in epidemiology - Journal of Epidemiology
WEBCausation is an essential concept in epidemiology, yet there is no single, clearly articulated definition for the discipline. From a systematic review of the literature, five categories can be delineated: production, necessary and sufficient, sufficient-component, counterfactual, and probabilistic. Strengths and weaknesses of these categories are examined in terms of proposed characteristics ...
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and …
WEBThis essay examines key aspects of social relationships that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses explicitly on relational mechanisms of health and brings together theory and emerging evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to make recommendations for future public health policy and recovery. We first provide an overview of the pandemic in the UK context, outlining the ...
Authors | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)
WEBWhen publishing in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, authors choose between three licence types – exclusive licence granted to BMJ, CC-BY-NC and CC-BY (Creative Commons open access licences require payment of an article processing charge).As an author you may wish to post your article in an institutional or subject repository, or on a scientific social sharing network.
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases …
WEBJul 9, 2024 · Background The association of maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy with severe neonatal morbidity (SNM) is still inconclusive. We aimed to examine the associations of the timing and the intensity of maternal cigarette smoking with infant SNM in the USA. Methods We used birth certificate data of 12 150 535 women aged 18–49 years who had live singleton births from the 2016–2019 US ...
WEBJun 3, 2009 · Organisational-level work reorganisation: participatory committees, control over hours of work. Task structure work reorganisation: task variety, team working, autonomous groups. Changing from an 8-h, 5-day week to a compressed working week of a 12 h/10 h, 4-day week. Changes to the organization of shift work schedules.
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s ...
WEBBackground Over the last 30 years, South Africa has experienced four ‘colliding epidemics’ of HIV and tuberculosis, chronic illness and mental health, injury and violence, and maternal, neonatal, and child mortality, which have had substantial effects on health and well-being. Using data from the 2019 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study (GBD 2019), we evaluated ...
Bias - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
WEBThe concept of bias is the lack of internal validity or incorrect assessment of the association between an exposure and an effect in the target population in which the statistic estimated has an expectation that does not equal the true value. Biases can be classified by the research stage in which they occur or by the direction of change in a estimate. The most important biases are those ...
The GRADE approach and Bradford Hill's criteria for causation
WEBThis article describes how the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to grading the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations considers the Bradford Hill criteria for causation and how GRADE may relate to questions in public health. A primary concern in public health is that evidence from non-randomised studies may provide a more adequate ...
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