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Invited commentary on: Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the U…

The paper by Xue et al investigated the effects of the 2014 UK policy reform that extended the ‘right to request’ flexible ...
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OP41 The representativeness of the UK Biobank cohort on a range of sociodemographic, physical, lifestyle and health-related characteristics

Background UK Biobank (UKB) is a population-based cohort study of half a million participants aged 40–69 recruited between 2006 and 2010 in England, Wales and Scotland. In order to investigate the ...
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Combined lifestyle factors, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health ...
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The Great Recession, unemployment and suicide

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...
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Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale and its relation with quality of life: a systematic review

Dr M Eriksson, Health Promotion Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Paasikivigatan 4, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland; monica.eriksson{at}folkhalsan.fi The aim of this paper is to synthesise ...
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Heat-related mortality: a review and exploration of heterogeneity

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...
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Socioeconomic differences in attitudes and beliefs about healthy lifestyles

1 Cancer Research UK, Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK 2 Psychobiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University ...
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Validity of Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale: a systematic review

Correspondence to: Dr B Lindström Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, S-40242 Gothenburg, Sweden; bengtnhv.se Study objective: The aim of this paper is to systematically review and analyse the ...
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Basic concepts in population health and health care

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Sick individuals and sick populations: 20 years later

1 South East London Strategic Health Authority and European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2 South East London Strategic Health ...
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A heuristic approach to the formulas for population attributable fraction

BACKGROUND As the definitional formula for population attributable fraction is not usually directly usable in applications, separate estimation formulas are required. However, most epidemiology ...
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Diseases of comfort: primary cause of death in the 22nd century

1 Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC); Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto; Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada 2 UK Public Health ...