Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Effectiveness of a multi-component hand hygiene intervention in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Nigeria

Background Handwashing with soap reduces infection transmission in schools, yet sustained hygiene service delivery is limited ...
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Work, worklessness and the political economy of health inequalities

This essay argues that work, and the socioeconomic class polarities it creates, plays a fundamental role in determining inequalities in the distribution of morbidity and mortality. This is by means of ...
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From market shocks to metabolic shocks: how acute workplace stress affects cardiometabolic biomarkers in employees

1 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Background Stress affects cardiometabolic health, but evidence linking objective, occupation-specific stressors to individual-level ...
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Decision modelling for health economic evaluation

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Cognitive function trajectories and their determinants in older people: 8 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...
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The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa

Objectives: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and ...
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Recovery from work: testing the effects of chronic internal and external workload on health and well-being

2 Department of Psychology, Norwegian Inland University of Applied Sciences, HHS Elverum, Norway Correspondence to Leif W Rydstedt, Department of Psychology, Norwegian Inland University of Applied ...
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Wider income gaps, wider waistbands? An ecological study of obesity and income inequality

2 Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK 3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK 4 International Obesity TaskForce, UK ...
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Strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in the eyes of some Hong Kong Chinese

OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese towards the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study of subjects' opinions ...
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Editorial Board

Comprehensive list of the editorial board for JECH, including editor in chief, associate editors & social media advisors.
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Finding the real case-fatality rate of H5N1 avian influenza

Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...
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The need for global risk factor surveillance

Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Tunney's Pasture, PL no 1918C3, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K9 Surveillance, Noncommunicable ...