Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Using wastewater for population-level colorectal cancer surveillance: a future research agenda

Background Individual screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is typically performed through either direct clinical examination ...
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Replacing sedentary behaviour with physical activity and all-cause mortality in older adults: two-cohort study in China and the UK

Background Older adults typically have higher sedentary behaviour (SB) and lower physical activity (PA) than younger adults.
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Analysis of the potential association between physical activity and skin autofluorescence: a systematic review

1 CarVasCare Research Group, Faculty of Nursing, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain 2 Facultad de Enfermería de Albacete, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain 3 Health and ...
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The concept of prevention: a good idea gone astray?

Over time, the definition of prevention has expanded so that its meaning in the context of health services is now unclear. As risk factors are increasingly considered to be the equivalent of “diseases ...
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Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK: 3 year follow-up outcomes of a ...

Background Evidence regarding the effectiveness of 20 miles per hour (mph) speed limit interventions is limited, and rarely have long-term outcomes been assessed. We investigate the effect of a 20 mph ...
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Prevalence of chronic medical conditions among jail and prison inmates in the USA compared with the general population

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA ...
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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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Exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising during the school commute in Australia

Background Food marketing exposure has the potential to influence children’s dietary behaviours and health status, however, few studies have identified how ‘obesogenic’ the outdoor food marketing ...
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A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.
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P03 A systematic review of interventions in community infrastructure (places and spaces) to boost social relations and community wellbeing

Background Stakeholder engagement for the What Works Centre for Wellbeing’s (WWCW) Community Wellbeing Evidence Programme identified ‘boosting social relations’ in communities as a priority ...
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Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data

Observational studies aiming to estimate causal effects often rely on conceptual frameworks that are unfamiliar to many researchers and practitioners. We provide a clear, structured overview of key ...