Editorials

Contextual effects on health inequalities: a research agenda

Odile Sauzet; Alastair H. Leyland

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Sleep and cardiovascular diseases: time for action and new methods

Tea Lallukka; E. Kronholm

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Viewpoints

Migrant health: the economic argument

Ursula Trummer; Allan Krasnik

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Tags: economics, human rights

Migrant health: putting the economic argument into the context of deservingness debates

Nora Gottlieb; Nadav Davidovitch

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Tags: economics

Restricted access to health care for asylum-seekers: applying a human rights lens to the argument of resource constraints

Kayvan Bozorgmehr; Judith Wenner; Oliver Razum

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Tags: health services accessibility, human rights, lens (device), lens, crystalline, psychiatric hospital

Health Policy

Chronic illness self-management: a mechanism behind the relationship between neighbourhood social capital and health?

Geeke Waverijn; Monique Heijmans; Peter P. Groenewegen

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Tags: chronic disease, neighborhood, self-management, social capital

The differentiated effects of health on political participation

Jérôme Couture; Sandra Breux

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Tags: government, internet, mental health, social survey, social identification

An evaluation of a public–private partnership to reduce artificial trans fatty acids in England, 2011–16

C. Knai; L. James; M. Petticrew; E. Eastmure; M.A. Durand ...

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Tags: partnerships, trans fatty acids, food supply, food

Health assessments for health governance—concepts and methodologies

Rainer Fehr; Kristina Alexanderson; Carlo Favaretti; Judith de Jong; Giuseppe La Torre ...

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Tags: economics, interpretation of findings, policy making, public health medicine, surveillance, medical

Health Services Research

Adherence to cancer treatment guidelines: influence of general and cancer-specific guideline characteristics

Marianne J. Heins; Judith D. de Jong; Inge Spronk; Vincent K.Y. Ho; Mirian Brink ...

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Tags: cancer, cancer guidelines, guidelines, melanoma, guideline adherence

A systematic review of economic evaluations of screening programmes for cardiometabolic diseases

Mickael Hiligsmann; Caroline E Wyers; Susanne Mayer; Silvia M Evers; Dirk Ruwaard

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Tags: early diagnosis, economics, screening, cost effectiveness, quality-adjusted life years

Association between unmet healthcare needs and health-related quality of life: a longitudinal study

Yeong Jun Ju; Tae Hyun Kim; Kyu-Tae Han; Hyo Jung Lee; Woorim Kim ...

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Tags: health-related quality of life, economics, poverty, korea, south korea

Health care on equal terms? Assessing horizontal equity in health care use in Northern Sweden

Miguel San Sebastián; Paola A. Mosquera; Nawi Ng; Per E. Gustafsson

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Tags: equity, health care use, income, socioeconomic factors, health services accessibility

Work and Health

Occupations and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: are jobs exposed to the general public at higher risk?

F. D’Ovidio; A. d’Errico; A. Calvo; G. Costa; A. Chiò

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Tags: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, censuses, employment history, follow-up, infection

The impact of the 2008 recession on the health of older workers: data from 13 European countries

Hila Axelrad; Erika L. Sabbath; Summer Sherburne Hawkins

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Tags: aging, alcohol drinking, austria, belgium, body mass index procedure

Temporal changes in health within 5 years before and after disability pension–the HUNT Study

Gunnhild Åberge Vie; Kristine Pape; Steinar Krokstad; Roar Johnsen; Johan Håkon Bjørngaard

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Tags: disability, pensions, hunt study, insomnia, depressive disorders

Night work as a risk factor of future disability pension due to musculoskeletal diagnoses: a prospective cohort study of Swedish twins

Sanna Kärkkäinen; Annina Ropponen; Jurgita Narusyte; Lisa Mather; Torbjörn Åkerstedt ...

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Tags: disability, follow-up, life style, pensions, sleep

Care of elderly

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Long-term care is increasingly concentrated in the last years of life: a change from 2000 to 2011

Leena Forma; Mari Aaltonen; Jutta Pulkki; Jani Raitanen; Pekka Rissanen ...

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Tags: death, elderly, finland, long-term care, survivors

Economic evaluation of health promotion and primary prevention actions for older people—a systematic review

Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk; Ewa Kocot; Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek; Kai Huter; Heinz Rothgang

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Tags: economics, elderly, health promotion, primary prevention, cost effectiveness

A baseline assessment by healthcare professionals of Dutch pharmacotherapeutic care for the elderly with polypharmacy

Lutien Bakker; Peter F. Kemper; Cordula Wagner; Gepke O. Delwel; Martine C. de Bruijne

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Tags: elderly, polypharmacy, secondary care, best practice, patient transfer

Lifetime abuse and perceived social support among the elderly: a study from seven European countries

Bahareh Eslami; Mirko Di Rosa; Henrique Barros; Mindaugas Stankunas; Francisco Torres-Gonzalez ...

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Tags: elderly, social support

Alcohol

Binge drinking and well-being in European older adults: do gender and region matter?

Sonsoles Fuentes; Usama Bilal; Iñaki Galán; Joan R. Villalbí; Albert Espelt ...

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Tags: binge drinking, elderly, gender, personal satisfaction

The effectiveness of current French health warnings displayed on alcohol advertisements and alcoholic beverages

Gloria Dossou; Karine Gallopel-Morvan; Jacques-François Diouf

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Tags: advertising, alcoholic beverages, ethanol, marketing, credibility

Alcohol and cancer: risk perception and risk denial beliefs among the French general population

Aurélie Bocquier; Lisa Fressard; Pierre Verger; Stéphane Legleye; Patrick Peretti-Watel

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Tags: alcohol drinking, cancer, cancer risk, denial (psychology), ethanol

Changes in alcohol consumption in the 50- to 64-year-old European economically active population during an economic crisis

Marina Bosque-Prous; Anton E. Kunst; M. Teresa Brugal; Albert Espelt

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Tags: alcohol drinking, alcoholic beverages, economics, ethanol, spain

Smoking

Quit attempts and smoking cessation in Italian adults (25–64 years): factors associated with attempts and successes

Alessandro Coppo; Sandro Baldissera; Alessandro Migliardi; Valentina Minardi; Elisa Quarchioni ...

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Tags: adult, economics, educational status, italy, smoking

Parental separation in childhood and adult smoking in the 1958 British birth cohort

Sarah E. Martindale; Rebecca E. Lacey

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Tags: adult, child, separation or divorce of parents, smoking, socioeconomic factors

Restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes in public and private places—current practice and support among adults in Great Britain

Leonie S. Brose; Ann McNeill; Deborah Arnott; Hazel Cheeseman

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Tags: adult, electronic cigarettes, smoke, smoking, nicotine

Burden of smoking in Lithuania: attributable mortality and years of potential life lost

Vaida Liutkutė; Aurelijus Veryga; Mindaugas Štelemėkas; Nijolė Goštautaitė Midttun

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Tags: lithuania, mortality, smoking, years of potential life lost, tobacco

Physical activity

The association of context-specific sitting time and physical activity intensity to working memory capacity and academic achievement in young adults

Mireia Felez-Nobrega; Charles H. Hillman; Eva Cirera; Anna Puig-Ribera

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Tags: academic achievement, lack of exercise, memory, short-term, physical activity, school performance

Inventory of surveillance systems assessing dietary, physical activity and sedentary behaviours in Europe: a DEDIPAC study

Silvia Bel-Serrat; Inge Huybrechts; Barbara F. Thumann; Antje Hebestreit; Peter M. Abuja ...

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Tags: diet, lack of exercise, physical activity, surveillance, medical

Self-rated health literacy is associated with exercise frequency among adults aged 50+ in Ireland

S. Gibney; G. Doyle

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Tags: adult, exercise, health literacy, health promotion, ireland

The link between perceived characteristics of neighbourhood green spaces and adults’ physical activity in UK cities: analysis of the EURO-URHIS 2 Study

Omer Ali; Francesco Di Nardo; Annie Harrison; Arpana Verma

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Tags: exercise, neighborhood, physical activity, adult, recreation

Changes in leisure-time physical activity and subsequent common mental disorders among ageing employees

Jouni Lahti; Eero Lahelma; Ossi Rahkonen

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Tags: employee, mental disorders, physical activity, aging, finland

Obesity

Predicting risk of substantial weight gain in German adults—a multi-center cohort approach

Ursula Bachlechner; Heiner Boeing; Marjolein Haftenberger; Anja Schienkiewitz; Christa Scheidt-Nave ...

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Tags: adult, diet, follow-up, life style, weight gain

Inequalities in obesity in Portugal: regional and gender differences

Luís Alves; Silvia Stringhini; Henrique Barros; Ana Azevedo; Pedro Marques-Vidal

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Tags: knowledge acquisition, obesity, portugal, portuguese

Whether people believe that overweight is unhealthy depends on their BMI

Simone Dohle; Tamara Bucher

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Tags: body mass index procedure, mortality, overweight, perception

European Public Health News

European Public Health News

Dineke Zeegers Paget

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Tags: public health medicine, world health organization