Owiredua, Christiana Flink, Ida Vixner, Linda Äng, Björn O Tseli, Elena Boersma, Katja
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Journal of Pain Research
Background Developmental life stage at chronic pain onset differs among chronic pain patients. Although pain affects multiple life domains, it is unknown whether the timing of chronic pain onset relates to pain characteristics and psychosocial outcomes. The purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate differences in pain characteristics a...
Guo, Shuaijun Yu, Xiaoming Okan, Orkan
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Over the past two decades, health literacy research has gained increasing attention in global health initiatives to reduce health disparities. While it is well-documented that health literacy is associated with health outcomes, most findings are generated from cross-sectional data. Along with the increasing importance of health literacy in policy, ...
Windle, Gill Bennett, Kate M. MacLeod, Catherine
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Frontiers in Medicine
Background: Co-morbidity is a major late-life challenge with poor outcomes, yet many older people are resilient. We consider an ecopsychosocial framework of resilience to investigate this disparity. This theorises that sources of resilience may be personal, social and structural. We explored older people's responses and reactions to significant lif...
Mulia, Nina Bensley, Kara M.
Published in
Alcohol Research : Current Reviews
Although research on alcohol-related disparities among women is a highly understudied area, evidence shows that racial/ethnic minority women, sexual minority women, and women of low socioeconomic status (based on education, income, or residence in disadvantaged neighborhoods) are more likely to experience alcohol-related problems. These problems in...
Ice, Erin Ang, Shannon Greenberg, Karra Burgard, Sarah
Published in
American journal of epidemiology
Long-term exposures to the stress and stimulation of different work, parenting, and partnership combinations might influence later life cognition. We investigated the relationship between women's work-family life histories and cognitive functioning in later life. Analyses were based on data from women born between 1930 and 1957 in 14 European count...
Patel, Anisha I. Hecht, Christina E. Cradock, Angie Edwards, Marc A. Ritchie, Lorrene D.
Recent water quality crises in the United States, and recognition of the health importance of drinking water in lieu of sugar-sweetened beverages, have raised interest in water safety, access, and consumption. This review uses a socioecological lens to examine these topics across the life course. We review water intakes in the United States relativ...
Millar, Roberto J Sahoo, Shalini Yamashita, Takashi Cummins, Phyllis
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Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
Problem-solving skills in the context of technologically complex modern societies have become increasingly important to health management in later life. This study is designed to investigate the associations between problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments (PSTRE) and health, and to explore whether age differences exist. Using data fr...
Grundy, Emily M D Read, Sanna Väisänen, Heini
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Population studies
We examine pathways between indicators of fertility tempo/quantum and depressive symptoms among parents aged 55+ with at least two children, using three waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Using standard regression approaches and path analysis within the structural equation framework, we also investigate whether fertility trajectorie...
Demakakos, Panayotes Linara-Demakakou, Eleni Mishra, Gita D
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Human Reproduction (Oxford, England)
STUDY QUESTION Is there an association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and the risk of miscarriage in the general population? SUMMARY ANSWER Specific ACE as well as the summary ACE score were associated with an increased risk of single and recurrent miscarriages. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY There is scarce evidence on the association between ...
Palumbo, Aimee J Cannuscio, Carolyn De Roos, Anneclaire J Robinson, Lucy Mossey, Jana Wallace, Robert Garcia, Lorena Shadyab, Aladdin H Sealy-Jefferson, Shawnita Michael, Yvonne
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Objective: Timing and accumulation of work-related exposures may influence later life health. This study evaluates the association between women's work patterns and physical functioning. Method: Work history and physical functioning information was collected at baseline for U.S. women ages 50 to 79 years in the Women's Health Initiative Observation...
