Lynch, Shannon M Wiese, Daniel Ortiz, Angel Sorice, Kristen A Nguyen, Minhhuyen González, Evelyn T Henry, Kevin A
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SSM - population health
Liver cancer (LC) continues to rise, partially due to limited resources for prevention. To test the precision public health (PPH) hypothesis that fewer areas in need of LC prevention could be identified by combining existing surveillance data, we compared the sensitivity/specificity of standard recommendations to target geographic areas using U.S. ...
Lindström, Martin
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SSM - population health
The aim is to outline the underlying epidemiological thinking and mentality in post-materialist and postmodern Sweden behind the Swedish strategy. The aim is not to investigate the handling of the pandemic in Sweden in the long-run. Overconfidence in herd immunity, overconfidence in individual responsibility in a pandemic needing community-centered...
Lisko, Inna Törmäkangas, Timo Jylhä, Marja
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SSM - population health
No previous study has explored the structure of self-rated health (SRH), a measure holding strong predictive value for future health events, in the oldest old or in individuals with dementia. The aim was to construct a structural equation model of SRH for oldest old in general and for oldest old with dementia, and to explore direct and indirect ass...
Wallace, Danielle Wang, Xia
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SSM - population health
Incarceration is definitively linked to poor health, and upon release from prison, many individuals experience difficulty in maintaining good health. Given the complexity of the reentry process, one's health status, both in and out of prison, likely influences additional aspects of reentry, such as abstaining from crime or adhering to parole terms....
Ueshima, Hiroaki Yozu, Arito Takahashi, Hideto Noguchi, Haruko Tamiya, Nanako
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SSM - population health
•We determined the relationship between long hours of care and the assistance in each activity of daily living (ADL) element.•The assistance in wiping of the body, dressing and toileting were significantly associated with longer hours of care .•To support caregivers effectively, it is important to consider the kinds of ADL elements of the care reci...
Banstola, Ratna Shila Ogino, Tetsuya Inoue, Sachiko
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SSM - population health
Adolescence is not only characterized by a period of exploration and experimentation but also by vulnerability to risk-behaviors (substance-use, suicidal behavior, and sexual behavior) that can have many negative consequences. Given the lack of studies in Nepal and the variable results from international studies on the association of self-esteem, p...
Vaezghasemi, Masoud Mosquera, Paola A Gustafsson, Per E Nilsson, Karina Strandh, Mattias
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SSM - population health
While previous research has evidently and extensively acknowledged socioeconomic gradients in children's education, we know very little about the determinants of socioeconomic-related inequality in children's education at the population level in Sweden. Therefore, we aimed: (i) to assess the extent of income inequality in upper secondary school com...
Hale, Jo Mhairi Schneider, Daniel C Mehta, Neil K Myrskylä, Mikko
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Prior studies have analyzed the burden of cognitive impairment, but often use potentially biased prevalence-based methods or measure only years lived with impairment, without estimating other relevant metrics. We use the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2014; n = 29,304) and the preferred incidence-based Markov-chain models to assess three key mea...
Fatema, Kaniz Lariscy, Joseph T
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SSM - population health
Maternal mortality remains a major population health problem in the developing world due in part to inadequate healthcare before, during, and after childbirth. Mass media has the potential to disseminate information about maternal healthcare that can improve well-being for mothers and infants, particularly among women with limited educational attai...
Restar, Arjee Jin, Harry Breslow, Aaron Reisner, Sari L Mimiaga, Matthew Cahill, Sean Hughto, Jaclyn M W
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SSM - population health
In recent years, Massachusetts (MA) and Rhode Island (RI) joined a growing list of states allowing residents to easily change the gender marker and name on government-identification (ID) documents. This was an important change for transgender and gender diverse (trans) residents, who face frequent mistreatment and thus for whom legal gender affirma...
