Consensus meeting on assessment and monitoring vaccine - preventable diseases
It presents information on the monitoring of immunization safety, assessment and monitoringrelated to new vaccine introduction, and ensuring effective surveillance and monitoring for accelerated disea...
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Vaccines, Immunization, Primary Prevention, Anais de congresso
Urban cause-specific socioeconomic mortality differences. Which causes of death contribute most?
Cause-specific information on socioeconomic differences in health is necessary for a rational public health policy. At the local level, the Municipal Health Service studies these differences in order ...
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Cause of Death, Mortality, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Equity, Differential Mortality, Equity, Living Conditions
Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in middle-aged men: importance of the duration of follow-up. The Copenhagen Male Study
The predictive value of some risk factors may diminish with increasing duration of follow-up. This study was performed to elucidate the role of socioeconomic status as a risk factor for ischaemic hear...
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Myocardial Ischemia, Epidemiology, Risk, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Childhood socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adulthood
Risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is higher among adults with limited education, and the less educated perform poorer on cognitive function tests. This study determines whether the socioeconomi...
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Socioeconomic Factors, Health Status Disparities, Childhood, Equity, Living Conditions
Educational differences in lung cancer mortality in male smokers
To assess the extent of lung cancer mortality differentials by education while adjusting for exposure to tobacco smoke and asbestos based on survey questions. Lung cancer mortality of basic-educated m...
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Lung Neoplasms, Mortality, Education, Smoking, Health Equity
Social class differences in lung cancer mortality: risk factor explanations using two Scottish cohort studies
The study investigated differences in lung cancer mortality risk between social classes. Methods Twenty years of mortality follow-up were analyzed in 7052 men and 8354 women from the Renfrew/Paisley g...
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Lung Neoplasms, Social Class, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Women's exposure to early and later life socioeconomic disadvantage and coronary heart disease risk: the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk StudY
Measures of low socioeconomic position have been associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) among women. A more complete understanding of this association is gained when socioecon...
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Coronary Disease, Women, Socioeconomic Factors, Coronary Disease, Health Equity
Time trends of major coronary risk factors in a northern Italian population (1986-1994). How remarkable are socioeconomic differences in an industrialized low CHD incidence country?
The goals are to estimate time trends (1986-1994) of major coronary risk factors in an industrialized low CHD incidence population and to assess education class (EC) differences in risk factor prevale...
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Gender Identity, Coronary Disease, Health Equity, Coronary Risk Factors/TD, Socio-economic Factors
Commentary: Socioeconomic health differentials
The present issues of the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE) contain eight reports of socioeconomic differences in health. These articles illustrate a number of traditional themes and point t...
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Health Status Disparities, Socioeconomic, Equity, Living Conditions
Commentary: Social inequalities in health, social epidemiology and social value
Despite this limitation, the frameworks are helpful in emphasizing the complex ways the range of health determinants 'operate' in the production of health, illness and recovery in populations. But, ap...
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