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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Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary

Correspondence to Ms Jennifer Ervin, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; ...
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Back to back housing, courts, and privies: the slums of 19th century England

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Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study

Correspondence to Benjamin Barr, Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK; benbarr{at}liverpool.ac.uk Background Low physical activity is one of ...
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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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Interactions between environmental pollutants and dietary nutrients: current evidence and implications in epidemiological research

Environmental pollutants and nutrients may be present in the same foodstuffs or dietary patterns; share internal mechanisms of transport, metabolism and cellular uptake; or target the same molecular ...
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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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Associations between objectively measured physical activity and later mental health outcomes in children: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Background The beneficial effect of physical activity (PA) on mental health in adults is well established, but less is known about this relationship in children. We examine associations between ...
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Decision modelling for health economic evaluation

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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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Outreach and improved access to specialist services for indigenous people in remote Australia: the requirements for sustainability

1 Flinders University Northern Territory Clinical School and Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Disease Control, NT Department of Health and ...
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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 ...