Kloek, Gittte C. van Lenthe, Frank J. Meertens, Yvonne M. G. Koelen, Maria A. Mackenbach, Johan P.
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin/Social and Preventive Medicine
Objectives:To assess whether a community intervention on health related behaviour in deprived neighbourhoods was delivered as planned and the extent of exposure to the intervention programme.Methods:Data were gathered throughout the intervention period using minutes of meetings, registration forms and a postal questionnaire among residents in inter...
Weyers, Simone Kunst, Anton
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin/Social and Preventive Medicine
Schreier, Nadja Huss, Anke Röösli, Martin
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
ObjectivesTo investigate health risk perception as well as to assess the prevalence of self-reported symptoms attributed to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and other environmental exposures in the general population of Switzerland.MethodsBetween May and June 2004, telephone interviews of a representative sample of the Swiss population (n = 2 048, >14 ...
Leonardi, GS Hajat, S Kovats, RS Smith, GE Cooper, D Gerard, E
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ObjectivesTo investigate the effects of high ambient temperatures, including the summer 2003 heat-episode, on NHS Direct usage and its suitability as a surveillance tool in heat health warning systems.MethodsAnalyses of data on calls to NHS Direct in English Regions in the period Dec 2001-May 2004. Outcomes were daily rates of all symptomatic calls...
Kalediene, Ramune Starkuviene, Skirmante Petrauskiene, Jadvyga
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ObjectivesTo assess inequalities in mortality from external causes by the level of education and the place of residence during the period of socio-economic transition in Lithuania.MethodsInformation on deaths, place of residence, and the level of education of persons aged 25 and older was derived from the National Database of Lithuania and censuses...
Cerutti, Bernard Tereanu, Carmen Domenighetti, Gianfranco Cantoni, Eva Gaia, Marco Bolgiani, Iva Lazzaro, Mario Cassis, Ignazio
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
ObjectivesThis study investigates a potential increase in mortality and in the demand for ambulance emergency services among the elderly in particular, in Ticino in the summer of 2003.MethodsMortality rates and emergency ambulance interventions rates were compared with records from the previous years. We considered the whole population, aged 65 and...
Künzli, Nino
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
Hug, Kerstin Röösli, Martin Rapp, Regula
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
ObjectivesTo analyse the results of recent studies not yet included in a 2003 report of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) on occupational exposure to low-frequency electromagnetic fields as potential risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases.MethodsA literature search was conducted in the online databases o...
Kheifets, Leeka Ritz, Beate
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Brønnum-Hansen, Henrik Davidsen, Michael
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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
ObjectivesTo estimate the impact of diseases on social differences in life expectancy and expected lifetime with illness among Danes in 1995–99.MethodsExpected lifetime with and without long-standing illness were calculated for groups with low, medium and high educational levels. Estimates based on observed rates of mortality and prevalence of illn...
