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Exposure to environmental chemicals and type 1 diabetes: an update

This narrative review summarises recently published epidemiological and in vivo experimental studies on exposure to environmental chemicals and their potential role in the development of type 1 ...
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Evidence based health promotion: recollections, reflections, and reconsiderations

1 National and Community Programmes, Department of Non-Communicable Disease prevention and Health Promotion, WHO, Geneva 2 National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, USA ...
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Linking physical and social environments with mental health in old age: a multisensor approach for continuous real-life ecological and emotional assessment

Background Urban stress is mentioned as a plausible mechanism leading to chronic stress, which is a risk factor of depression. Yet, an accurate assessment of urban stressors in environmental ...
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Socioeconomic status, race and COPD health outcomes

1 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, ...
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Associations of neighbourhood greenness with physical and mental health: do walking, social coherence and local social interaction explain the relationships?

Background: Studies have shown associations between health indices and access to “green” environments but the underlying mechanisms of this association are not clear. Objectives: To examine ...
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What types of interventions generate inequalities? Evidence from systematic reviews

Background Some effective public health interventions may increase inequalities by disproportionately benefiting less disadvantaged groups (‘intervention-generated inequalities’ or IGIs). There is a ...
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Role of socioeconomic status in modifying the relationship between alcohol use and injury events: evidence from the UK Biobank

Background Alcohol consumption is a well-established risk factor for injuries, yet the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in modifying this relationship remains underexplored. This study examines how ...
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Layoffs in automobile manufacturing and mortality among remaining workers

Background Layoffs may affect the health of those who lose their jobs as well as those who remain employed. Existing studies ...
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OP38 Ethnic differences in childhood height trajectories and the role of early life factors: evidence from the uk millennium cohort study

Background Height growth is an indicator of early life growth conditions and is associated with health in later life (including cardiovascular disease and some cancers). Cross-sectional research has ...
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Health trade-offs of rural structural transformation: evidence from longitudinal data in Bangladesh

Objectives/background This study examines the relationship between occupational transitions out of agriculture and functional health outcomes among rural adults in Bangladesh, with a focus on gender ...
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Mental health status and gender as risk factors for onset of physical illness over 10 years

1 Centre for Research on Inner City Health at The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Institute for Clinical Evaluative ...
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Socioeconomic differences in second-hand smoke exposure among children in Scotland after introduction of the smoke-free legislation

1 Child & Adolescent Health Research Unit (CAHRU), University of Edinburgh, St Leonard's Land, Edinburgh, UK 2 NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh; Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and ...