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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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Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact
Lagström et al explore whether the transition to retirement is associated with changes in dietary intake, specifically fish, red meat and fruits and vegetables.1 The authors tap into a shared ...
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Effect of same-sex marriage legalisation on the health of ethnic minority lesbian, gay and bisexual people: a quasi-experimental study
Background The UK legalised same-sex marriage in 2014. We examine whether same-sex marriage legalisation (SSML), an exogenous policy change, affected the health outcomes among ethnic minority lesbian, ...
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Overdose as a complex contagion: modelling the community spread of overdose events following law enforcement efforts to disrupt the drug market
Background The opioid overdose mortality crisis in the USA is an ongoing public health epidemic. Ongoing law enforcement strategies to disrupt local unregulated drug markets can have an iatrogenic ...
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Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?
Background We investigated whether having children and their socioeconomic resources are associated with receiving coronary angiogram (CAG) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) or ...
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Maternal alcohol intake prior to and during pregnancy and risk of adverse birth outcomes: evidence from a British cohort
1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...
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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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Stressful social relations and mortality: a prospective cohort study
3 Section of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Rikke Lund, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University ...