BACKGROUND The issue of poor response rates to population surveys has existed for some decades, but few studies have explored methods to improve the response rate in follow-up population cohort studies. METHODS A sample of 100,000 adults from the 45 and Up Study, a large population cohort in Australia, were followed up 3.5 years after the baseline cohort was assembled. A pilot mail-out of 500...

Integrating Behavior Change Theory and Measures into Health-Based Cookstove Interventions: A Proposed Epidemiologic Research Agenda Maggie L. Clark, Judy M. Heiderscheidt & Jennifer L. Peel To cite this article: Maggie L. Clark, Judy M. Heiderscheidt & Jennifer L. Peel (2015) Integrating Behavior Change Theory and Measures into Health-Based Cookstove Interventions: A Proposed Epidemiologic Rese...

Demographic estimates of population at risk often underpin epidemiologic research and public health surveillance efforts. In spite of their central importance to epidemiology and public-health practice, little previous attention has been paid to evaluating the magnitude of errors associated with such estimates or the sensitivity of epidemiologic statistics to these effects. In spite of the well...

background:the pattern of poisoning has a regional variability. this study was carried out to describe the epidemiological profile of acute poisoning in northeastern bangladesh and to evaluate the mortality. methods:in this retrospective cross-sectional study, medical records of poisoned patients treated at department of medicine of sylhet m.a.g. osmani medical college hospital, sylhet, banglad...

abstract: in contrast to traditional reviews, systematic reviews explore theliterature on a specific topic comprehensively using a well-defined protocol and recruit the findings of eligible studies after the assessment of their qualities, using a clear and reproducible method. checking the assumptions, we may merge the findings of recruited studies in a systematic review and use metaanalysis te...

INTRODUCTION Pemphigus comprises a group of autoimmune blistering diseases that affect the skin and mucous membranes. Its clinical and epidemiologic features vary according to geographic location and ethnic background. OBJECTIVE An exhaustive search of the literature reveals very few reports of the epidemiology of pemphigus in setting. Our aim, thus, was to conduct a retrospective study of th...

Prevalence of Obesity in Turkey: What are Epidemiologic Risk Factors? Obesity is a progressing problem both in developed or developing countries. Relations between increased body fat and high mortality especially with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension are well known. Several large studies suggest that abdominal obesity is closely related to cardiovascular risk. Knowle...

In this introduction to volume 31 of Epidemiologic Reviews, the author traces the history of health disparities research in epidemiology and situates the 10 review articles comprising this edition within this history. With the aid of a conceptual model describing the key determinants of health disparities, he offers several suggestions for improving future epidemiologic research on health dispa...

We are all living in the era of globalization and, like it or not, it is going to change the way we practise epidemiology, the kinds of questions we ask and the methods we use to answer them. However, the methods, and ways of thinking about the health of populations, that will be required for epidemiology in the 21st century are in some instances quite different from the standard epidemiologica...

We have assembled this mini-monograph on adult lead exposure to provide guidance to clinicians and public health professionals, to summarize recent thinking on lead biomarkers and their relevance to epidemiologic research, and to review two key lead-related outcomes, namely, cardiovascular and cognitive. The lead standards of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration are woefully o...