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Open AccessImpact of a community-based primary healthcare programme on childhood diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DPT3) immunisation coverage in rural northern Ghana
Child healthcare services such as diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DPT3) vaccination are known to reduce childhood mortality and morbidity. However, inequalities in access to these services in develo** countrie...
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Open AccessSocioeconomic position and the effect of energy labelling on consumer behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis
There are well documented socioeconomic disparities in diet quality and obesity. Menu energy labelling is a public health policy designed to improve diet and reduce obesity. However, it is unclear whether the ...
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Open AccessUse of Parental Disability Trajectories to Identify Adolescents Who are Young Carers
Being a young carer can have significant impacts on the lives of children and adolescents. Identifying young carers is difficult, making the provision of support challenging for service providers. This sample ...
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Open AccessEstimating the health and economic effects of the voluntary sodium reduction targets in Brazil: microsimulation analysis
Excessive sodium consumption is one of the leading dietary risk factors for non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), mediated by high blood pressure. Brazil has implemented voluntary ...
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Open AccessEvaluating stakeholder involvement in building a decision support tool for NHS health checks: co-producing the WorkHORSE study
Stakeholder engagement is being increasingly recognised as an important way to achieving impact in public health. The WorkHORSE (Working Health Outcomes Research Simulation Environment) project was designed to co...
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Open AccessEngaging with stakeholders to inform the development of a decision-support tool for the NHS health check programme: qualitative study
The NHS Health Check Programme is a risk-reduction programme offered to all adults in England aged 40–74 years. Previous studies mainly focused on patient perspectives and programme delivery; however, delivery...
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Open AccessPotential impact of diabetes prevention on mortality and future burden of dementia and disability: a modelling study
Diabetes is associated with an increased risk of dementia. We estimated the potential impact of trends in diabetes prevalence upon mortality and the future burden of dementia and disability in England and Wales.
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Open AccessPreventing type 2 diabetes mellitus in Qatar by reducing obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity: mathematical modeling analyses
The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of reducing the prevalence of obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity, and introducing physical activity as an explicit intervention, on the burden of type 2 ...
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Open AccessExplaining income-related inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in Tunisian adults during the last decade: comparison of sensitivity analysis of logistic regression and Wagstaff decomposition analysis
It is important to quantify inequality, explain the contribution of underlying social determinants and to provide evidence to guide health policy. The aim of the study is to explain the income-related inequali...
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Dynamics of Parental Work Hours, Job Security, and Child Behavioural Problems in Australian Dual-Earner Families
We test whether parental employment conditions are associated with child behavioural problems in 6674 Australian dual-earner families. Using mixed-effects panel models and three waves of data from two cohorts ...
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Adoption and Design of Emerging Dietary Policies to Improve Cardiometabolic Health in the US
Suboptimal diet is a leading cause of cardiometabolic disease and economic burdens. Evidence-based dietary policies within 5 domains—food prices, reformulation, marketing, labeling, and government food assista...
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Open AccessThe potential impact of food taxes and subsidies on cardiovascular disease and diabetes burden and disparities in the United States
Fiscal interventions are promising strategies to improve diets, reduce cardiovascular disease and diabetes (cardiometabolic diseases; CMD), and address health disparities. The aim of this study is to estimate ...
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Early Life Course Family Structure and Children’s Socio-Emotional and Behavioural Functioning: A View from Australia
Children’s early life experiences are important not only for their contemporary wellbeing, but also for their subsequent life outcomes as adolescents and adults. Research from developed countries has demonstra...
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The Family Life Course and Health: Partnership, Fertility Histories, and Later-Life Physical Health Trajectories in Australia
Life course perspectives suggest that later-life health reflects long-term social patterns over an individual’s life: in particular, the occurrence and timing of key roles and transitions. Such social patterns...
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Open AccessThe effects of maximising the UK’s tobacco control score on inequalities in smoking prevalence and premature coronary heart disease mortality: a modelling study
Smoking is more than twice as common among the most disadvantaged socioeconomic groups in England compared to the most affluent and is a major contributor to health-related inequalities. The United Kingdom (UK...
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Open AccessEstimating the potential contribution of stroke treatments and preventative policies to reduce the stroke and ischemic heart disease mortality in Turkey up to 2032: a modelling study
Stroke and Ischemic Heart Diseases (IHD) are the main cause of premature deaths globally, including Turkey. There is substantial potential to reduce stroke and IHD mortality burden; particularly by improving d...
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Open AccessErratum to: Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact
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Open AccessAre interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact
Interventions to promote healthy eating make a potentially powerful contribution to the primary prevention of non communicable diseases. It is not known whether healthy eating interventions are equally effecti...
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Open AccessForecasting Tunisian type 2 diabetes prevalence to 2027: validation of a simple model
Most projections of type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevalence are simply based on demographic change (i.e. ageing). We developed a model to predict future trends in T2D prevalence in Tunisia, explicitly taking into acc...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of salt reduction policies to reduce coronary heart disease in Syria, 2010–2020
This study presents a cost-effectiveness analysis of salt reduction policies to lower coronary heart disease in Syria.
