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Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects

Global Health Action, 2021
Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) have been developed in several low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa and Asia. This paper reviews their history, state of the art and future potential and highlights substantial areas of ...
Kobus Herbst, Sanjay Juvekar, Momodou Jasseh, Yemane Berhane, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Janet Seeley, Osman Sankoh, Samuel J. Clark, Mark A. Collinson   +8 more
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Does time heal all wounds? Life course associations between child welfare involvement and mortality in prospective cohorts from Sweden and Britain

SSM: Population Health, 2021
Child welfare involvement reflects childhood adversity and is associated with increased adult mortality, but it remains unclear how this association changes over the life course.
Josephine Jackisch, George B. Ploubidis, Dawid Gondek   +2 more
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Gender differences in the distribution of children’s physical activity: evidence from nine countries

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023
Background Physical activity in childhood is thought to influences health and development. Previous studies have found that boys are typically more active than girls, yet the focus has largely been on differences in average levels or proportions above a ...
Luke Kretschmer, Gul Deniz Salali, Lars Bo Andersen, Pedro C. Hallal, Kate Northstone, Luís B. Sardinha, Mark Dyble, David Bann, International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators   +8 more
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Inequalities in healthcare disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 12 UK population-based longitudinal studies

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives We investigated associations between multiple sociodemographic characteristics (sex, age, occupational social class, education and ethnicity) and self-reported healthcare disruptions during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.Design ...
Andrew Steptoe, Gabriella Captur, George B Ploubidis, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Nishi Chaturvedi, Praveetha Patalay, Ellen J Thompson, Claire J Steves, Eoin McElroy, Michael J Green, Gillian Santorelli, Giorgio Di Gessa, Richard J Silverwood, Jane Maddock, Anna J Stevenson, Alex SF Kwong, Sam Parsons   +16 more
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Longitudinal Uses of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study

Tobacco Regulatory Science, 2021
Objectives: The Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study is a nationally representative study of the US population on tobacco use and its effects on health, with 3 waves of data collection between 2013 and 2016. Prior work described the methods of the first wave.
Andrea, Piesse, Jean, Opsomer, Sylvia, Dohrmann, Ralph, DiGaetano, David, Morganstein, Kristie, Taylor, Charles, Carusi, Andrew, Hyland   +7 more
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UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration – and the challenges in creating a new Longitudinal Populations Studies linked data resource.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) is a new, unprecedented infrastructure enabling research into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Robin Flaig, Jacqui Oakley, Kirsteen Campbell, Katharine Evans, Stela McLachlan, Richard Thomas, Emma Turner, Andy Boyd   +7 more
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An integrated and collaborative approach to developing and scripting questionnaires for longitudinal cohort studies and surveys: experience in Life Study [PDF]

, 2017
Efficient development of questionnaires for longitudinal surveys and cohort studies as computer-assisted survey instruments usually entails close collaboration between scientific and fieldwork teams. We describe a system based on the use of a Structured
Elias, P, Dezateux, Carol, Gilby, Nicholas, Walton, Suzanne, Peskett, Duncan, Nicholas Gilby, Alexandrakis, Stelios, Peter Elias, Carol Dezateux, Firman, N, Duncan Peskett, Dezateux, C, Gilby, N, Elias, Peter, Stelios Alexandrakis, Nicola Firman, Gareth Williams, Alexandrakis, S, Williams, Gareth, Walton, S, Suzanne Walton, Williams, G, Peskett, D, Firman, Nicola   +23 more
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Psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among settled women: A longitudinal study [PDF]

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2023
Objective: to analyze the psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among Brazilian women from rural settlements. Method: this is a quantitative and longitudinal study conducted with 13 settled women. The data were collected between January 2020 and
Jaqueline Lemos de Oliveira, Janaina Cristina Pasquini de Almeida, Antonio Jose Correa de Pauli, Mara Regina Moitinho, Regina Célia Fiorati, Jacqueline de Souza   +5 more
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Predictors of attrition in a longitudinal population-based study of aging

International Psychogeriatrics, 2021
Longitudinal studies predictably experience non-random attrition over time. Among older adults, risk factors for attrition may be similar to risk factors for outcomes such as cognitive decline and dementia, potentially biasing study results.To characterize participants lost to follow-up which can be useful in the study design and interpretation of ...
Erin Jacobsen, Xinhui Ran, Anran Liu, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Mary Ganguli   +4 more
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Expressions of masculinity and associations with suicidal ideation among young males

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Adolescent boys and young men are at particular risk of suicide. Suicidal ideation is an important risk factor for suicide, but is poorly understood among adolescent males. Some masculine behaviors have been associated with deleterious effects
Tania L. King, Marissa Shields, Victor Sojo, Galina Daraganova, Dianne Currier, Adrienne O’Neil, Kylie King, Allison Milner   +7 more
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