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Public health unit funding per capita and seasonal influenza vaccination among youth and adults in Ontario, Canada in 2013/2014 and 2018/2019
Background Influenza vaccines are crucial in reducing the risk of influenza symptoms. We aimed to: (1) estimate the ...
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Prescribing by level of deprivation in Wales: an investigation of selected medicine groups
Background Prescribing is the most common intervention made by healthcare professionals. Our study aimed to compare prescribing between general practitioner (GP) practices with the highest and lowest ...
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OP48 What is the opportunity cost of funding ready-to-use supplementary foods compared to counselling for moderate malnutrition?
Background The best management strategy for moderate acute malnutrition (MAM; weight-for-height z-score<-2) in low- & middle- income countries is unclear. Recently there has been a growth in the use ...
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The rise of neoliberalism: how bad economics imperils health and what to do about it
The 2008 global financial crisis, precipitated by high-risk, under-regulated financial practices, is often seen as a singular event. The crisis, its recessionary consequences, bank bailouts and the ...
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Which measure of quality of life performs best in older age? A comparison of the OPQOL, CASP-19 and WHOQOL-OLD
1 Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University & St George's, University of London, UK 2 School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, Sussex, UK Correspondence to ...
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Maternal alcohol intake prior to and during pregnancy and risk of adverse birth outcomes: evidence from a British cohort
1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...
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Black–white differences in avoidable mortality in the USA, 1980–2005
Background: Avoidable Mortality (AM) describes causes of death that should not occur in the presence of high-quality and timely medical treatment and from causes that can be influenced at least in ...
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Tailoring health services to the needs of individual communities.
In order to assess the need for community health services in different neighbourhoods within Greater Glasgow, it was decided to present a wide variety of health information for each community as a set ...
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A comparison of coronary heart disease event rates among urban Australian Aboriginal people and a matched non-Aboriginal population
1 School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 2 Centre for Health and Ageing, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 3 Centre for Nursing ...
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Evidence into practice, experimentation and quasi experimentation: are the methods up to the task?
OBJECTIVE: Methodological review of evaluations of interventions intended to help health professionals provide more effective and efficient health care, motivated by the current experience of NHS ...