This paper examines the association between neighbourhood and levels and changes in common mental disorders. Using data from a large scale nationally representative survey of individuals and households (the British Household Panel Survey), it locates individuals in their local neighbourhoods. These are defined as the nearest 500-800 persons centered around each individual in the survey. These '...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune/inflammatory disease. Patients diagnosed with juvenile-onset SLE (jSLE), when compared to individuals adult-onset SLE, develop more severe organ involvement, increased disease activity and greater tissue damage. In clinical characteristics, pathomechanisms, progression outcomes do not only vary between age groups, but also ethnicities....

background: deep vein thrombosis (dvt) can be an ethnicity related disease and an important health issue for health-care systems. thus, domestic recognition of risk factors and disease characteristics seem to be inevitable. this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiology, basic characteristics, and risk factors in patients with dvt. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectiona...

Contextual factors such as ethnicity, gender, place, and their intersections determine the social condition that populations and individuals live in. As a result, environmental stressors that shape exposures, and also resilience and vulnerabilities are specific to the population. This emphasizes the role of the intersection of such contextual factors in studying psychosocial causes of depressio...

BACKGROUND General practice based registration networks (GPRNs) provide information on morbidity rates in the population. Morbidity rate estimates from different GPRNs, however, reveal considerable, unexplained differences. We studied the range and variation in morbidity estimates, as well as the extent to which the differences in morbidity rates between general practices and networks change if...

This is a cross-sectional study on school bullying involving 410 standard six students from seven national primary schools in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Information on bullying, victimization and bully-victim were gathered using a Malaysian selfrating bullying questionnaire. Socio demographic characteristics of the respondents were also obtained. 41.2% of these children reported hav...

semantic strategies are a kind of discourse strategy that include the sum of language and cognitive moves which are used to reach an adequate goal of communication normally resulting in text comprehension by the reader or listener. here, the language user takes a number of steps in order to perform a complex task. semantic strategies in prejudiced talk have been examined extensively in western ...