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Developing predictive models of health literacy. [PDF]

, 2009
IntroductionLow health literacy (LHL) remains a formidable barrier to improving health care quality and outcomes. Given the lack of precision of single demographic characteristics to predict health literacy, and the administrative burden and inability of
Bird, Chloe E, Culbert, Arthur, Elliott, Marc, Escarce, José J, Fremont, Allen, Gasper, Charles, Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie, Lurie, Nicole, Martin, Laurie T, Ruder, Teague, Sherman, Daniel   +10 more
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Antidepressant medication use among working age first-generation migrants resident in Finland: an administrative data linkage study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background A higher risk of common mental health disorders has been found for first-generation migrants in high income countries, but few studies have examined the use of mental health care.
Tania Bosqui, Ari Väänänen, Andre Buscariolli, Aki Koskinen, Dermot O’Reilly, Auli Airila, Anne Kouvonen   +6 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood contact with social services, self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation in young adulthood: a population-wide record-linkage study

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
Background Childhood contact with social services is associated with a range of adverse mental health outcomes across the life course, yet there is limited evidence in relation to self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation.
S. McKenna, D. O’Reilly, E. Ross, A. Maguire   +3 more
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The association between mother’s alcohol consumption during pregnancy and their child’s educational attainment and risk of hospital admission by age 14

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2019
Background Heavy alcohol consumption by mothers during pregnancy is associated with developmental problems in their children. However, the impact of light to moderate consumption on the long-term health and educational attainment up to adolescence has ...
Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Sinead Brophy, Simon Moore, Ashley Akbari, Shantini Paranjothy, Ronan Lyons   +5 more
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The Role of Partnership in The Integration of Intersectoral Data

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction The importance of the determinants of health to health outcomes has long been established. Historically, data from each of these sectors has been captured in disparate, often siloed, sources.
Sujitha Ratnasingham, Ximena Camacho, Ted McDonald, Nicole Yada, Brent Diverty, David Ford   +5 more
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Health Information and Social Security Entitlements [PDF]

, 2013
This study examines whether new health information, obtained through medical screening, affects entitlements to Social Security benefits. Random assignment of information is derived from a unique feature of the Continuous National Health and Nutrition ...
Perry Singleton
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A novel linked dataset to improve understanding about the health of people in Northern Ireland’s prisons

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective and Approach We describe a collaboration between the Queen’s University Belfast, Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC) in Northern Ireland (NI) and the NI Healthcare in Prisons Service (HIPS) to develop a novel linked database to assess ...
Janine Cooper, Dermot O’Reilly, Trish Kelly, Richard Kirk, Stephen McGarrigle, Ruth Gray, Michael Donnelly   +6 more
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Postpartum diabetes screening among low income women with gestational diabetes in Missouri 2010–2015

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Gestational diabetes increases risk for type 2 diabetes seven-fold, creating a large public health burden in a young population. In the US, there are no large registries for tracking postpartum diabetes screening among women in under-resourced
Cynthia J. Herrick, Matthew R. Keller, Anne M. Trolard, Ben P. Cooper, Margaret A. Olsen, Graham A. Colditz   +5 more
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