Ding, Su He, Jianhua Liu, Dianfeng
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Severe tropospheric O3 pollution has swept across China in recent years. Consequently, investigation of tropospheric O3 concentration influencing mechanism is of significance for O3 pollution control in China. Previous studies have rarely detected combined impacts of natural factors and anthropogenic activities behind tropospheric O3 concentration ...
Bi, Shanshan Stevens, Gonneke W.J.M. Maes, Marlies Boer, Maartje Delaruelle, Katrijn Eriksson, Charli Brooks, Fiona M. Tesler, Riki van der Schuur, Winneke A. Finkenauer, Catrin
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Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Although previous research established a positive association between perceived social support and adolescent life satisfaction, little is known about the relative importance of different sources of support for adolescent life satisfaction and cross-country variations in this respect. Using large-scale representative samples from the 2017/18 Health...
Bi, Shanshan; Stevens, Gonneke WJM; Maes, Marlies; 86592; Boer, Maartje; Delaruelle, Katrijn; Eriksson, Charli; Brooks, Fiona M; Tesler, Riki; van der Schuur, Winneke A; Finkenauer, Catrin;
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Although previous research established a positive association between perceived social support and adolescent life satisfaction, little is known about the relative importance of different sources of support for adolescent life satisfaction and cross-country variations in this respect. Using large-scale representative samples from the 2017/18 Health...
Heuser, Christian Diekmann, Annika Kowalski, Christoph Enders, Anna Conrad, Rupert Pfaff, Holger Ansmann, Lena Ernstmann, Nicole
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundDecisions made in multidisciplinary tumor conferences (MTC) that consider patient preferences result in better patient outcomes. Furthermore, it has been shown that in some breast cancer centers in Germany, patients participate in MTCs and that participation is associated with sociodemographic and breast cancer center-related factors. Hea...
Liu, Wenbin Shi, Lizheng Pong, Raymond W. Chen, Yingyao
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundHospital social responsibility is receiving increasing attention, especially in China where major changes to the healthcare system have taken place. This study examines how patients viewed hospital social responsibility in China and explore the factors that influenced patients’ perception of hospital social responsibility.MethodsA cross-s...
Yoshitake, Naomi Sun, Yi Sugawara, Masumi Matsumoto, Satoko Sakai, Atsushi Takaoka, Junko Goto, Noriko
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Quality of Life Research
PurposeThe present study aimed to examine the relationship between sociodemographic factors and domains of quality of life (QOL) among married adults in Japan who were either rearing or expecting their first child. Our research focus was on whether different sociodemographic variables interacted with each other in predicting the first-time parents’...
Oka, Masayoshi Wong, David W. S.
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Journal of Urban Health
Area-based measures of neighborhood characteristics simply derived from enumeration units (e.g., census tracts or block groups) ignore the potential of spatial spillover effects, and thus incorporating such measures into multilevel regression models may underestimate the neighborhood effects on health. To overcome this limitation, we describe the c...
Jayasinghe, Upali W. Harris, Mark Fort Parker, Sharon M. Litt, John van Driel, Mieke Mazza, Danielle Del Mar, Chris Lloyd, Jane Smith, Jane Zwar, Nicholas
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundLimited evidence exists regarding the relationship between health literacy and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Australian patients from primary care. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of health literacy on HRQoL in a large sample of patients without known vascular disease or diabetes and to examine whethe...
Jayasinghe, Upali W Harris, Mark F Taggart, Jane Christl, Bettina Black, Deborah A
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundThe aims of this study were to explore the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a large sample of Australian chronically-ill patients (type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension/ischaemic heart disease), to investigate the impact of characteristics of patients and their general practitioners on their HRQoL and to examine clinically signific...
Cramm, J. M. Møller, V. Nieboer, A. P.
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Social Indicators Research
Our study used multilevel regression analysis to identify individual- and neighbourhood-level factors that determine individual-level subjective well-being in Rhini, a deprived suburb of Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Townsend index and Gini coefficient were used to investigate whether contextual neighbourhood-level d...
