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Waiting to inhale: factors associated with healthcare workers’ fears of occupationally-acquired tuberculosis (TB)

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Fear of TB infection is rooted in historical and social memories of the disease, marked by stigma, segregation and exclusion. Healthcare workers (HCWs) face these same fears today, and even seek to hide their TB status when infected.
Michelle Engelbrecht, Asta Rau, Gladys Kigozi, André Janse van Rensburg, Edwin Wouters, Nina Sommerland, Caroline Masquillier, Kerry Uebel   +7 more
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Patterns of physical activity in hunter-gatherer children compared with US and UK children

Scientific Reports
Contemporary hunter-gatherers are highly active, but little is known about physical activity levels in hunter-gatherer children. We analysed 150 days of accelerometer data from 51 BaYaka hunter-gatherer children (aged 3–18) in the Republic of Congo ...
Luke Kretschmer, Mark Dyble, Nikhil Chaudhary, David Bann, Gul Deniz Salali   +4 more
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Using consented health record linkage in a longitudinal cohort study

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objectives The aim of this project is to address important issues relevant to children’s health This will be done by enhancing information collected in the longitudinal, UK-wide Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) by linking participating children to their ...
Karen Tingay, Ashley Akbari, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Helen Bedford, Sinead Brophy, Mario Cortina Borja, Emla Fitzsimons, Lucy Griffiths, Melanie Healy, Jon Johnson, Efrosini Setakis, Suzanne Walton, Carol Dezateux, Ronan Lyons   +13 more
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Longitudinal Analyses of the Effects of Trade Unions [PDF]

This paper examines how measurement error biases longitudinal estimates of union effects. It develops numerical examples, statistical models, and econometric estimates which indicate that measurement error is a major problem in longitudinal data sets, so
Richard B. Freeman
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An aerodynamic load criterion for airships [PDF]

, 1975
A simple aerodynamic bending moment envelope is derived for conventionally shaped airships. This criterion is intended to be used, much like the Naval Architect's standard wave, for preliminary estimates of longitudinal strength requirements.
Woodward, D. E.
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Data Difficulties in Labor Economics [PDF]

This essay sets out a framework for evaluating empirical work in terms of the ability of the data to provide adequate parameter estimates and hypothesis tests about the true underlying structure. Problems of aggregation, representativeness and structural
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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The relationship between early life course air pollution exposure and general health in adolescence in the United Kingdom

Scientific Reports
Air pollution is associated with health in childhood. However, there is limited evidence on sensitive periods during the first 18 years of life. Data were drawn from the Millennium Cohort Study, a large and nationally representative cohort born in 2000 ...
Gergő Baranyi, Katie Harron, Youchen Shen, Kees de Hoogh, Emla Fitzsimons   +4 more
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Correction: The UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and diet, physical activity, and sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from eight longitudinal population surveys

BMC Medicine, 2022
Bożena Wielgoszewska, Jane Maddock, Michael J. Green, Giorgio Di Gessa, Sam Parsons, Gareth J. Griffith, Jazz Croft, Anna J. Stevenson, Charlotte Booth, Richard J. Silverwood, David Bann, Praveetha Patalay, Alun D. Hughes, Nishi Chaturvedi, Laura D. Howe, Emla Fitzsimons, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, George B. Ploubidis   +17 more
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Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data

BMC Psychiatry
Background Pooling data from different sources will advance mental health research by providing larger sample sizes and allowing cross-study comparisons; however, the heterogeneity in how variables are measured across studies poses a challenge to this ...
Eoin McElroy, Thomas Wood, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Mark Shevlin, George B. Ploubidis, Mauricio Scopel Hoffmann, Bettina Moltrecht   +7 more
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Reproductive milestones and oral contraceptive timing predict late-life mortality

npj Women's Health
The timing of reproduction is causally linked to aging and mortality risk patterns in diverse species, but the existence of equivalent effects in humans is contentious.
Saul Justin Newman, Heather Booth
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