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The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is a truly international journal that encompasses all aspects of epidemiology and public health. It publishes original research, opinions and materials concerned with the study and improvement of communities worldwide.
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How is the use of cannabis in adolescents likely to progress to harder drugs? from 2017-05-30T12:08:42
What’s the correlation between the occasional or regular use of cannabis by adolescents and its progression to nicotine dependence, harmful alcohol use and use of other illicit drugs in young adult...
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Sex-selective abortion and female infant mortality more common after one or two daughters in India from 2016-10-20T17:47:04
Prenatal sex selection and female infant mortality are more common in India after first and second born daughters. Corry Gellatly, a research scientist at the Newcastle University, explains the det...
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Job insecurity is associated with adult asthma in Germany during the recent economic crisis from 2014-09-23T11:16:03
Job insecurity has been identified as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes. Perceptions of job insecurity steeply increased during Europe's recent economic downturn, which commenced in 2008. ...
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Mortality on match days of the German national soccer team from 2014-08-27T17:18:25
The link between emotional stress and an enhanced risk of cardiovascular death is well established. In particular, sports events such as soccer matches are capable of provoking strong emotions, whi...
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Do interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children work? from 2014-02-18T16:12:18
Childhood obesity is now a global epidemic and the incidence continues to increase. Dietary interventions and nutritional education are possible options, however, restrictive diets can result in...
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Time for bed: associations with cognitive performance in 7-year-old children from 2014-02-14T18:02:06
Jim Dunn talks to Yvonne Kelly, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, about her paper which shows irregular bed times curb young kids’ brain power.
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Polypill roundtable from 2014-01-21T16:55:09
There has been long-standing interest in the idea of polypill (a pill containing a statin and an anti-hypertensive agent) being used by healthy people, as a tool to prevent heart disease (and po...
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Alcohol-related mortality in deprived UK cities from 2013-10-03T13:16:05
In this, the first podcast from JECH, editor-in-chief James Dunn talks to Deborah Shipton, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, about her paper examining alcohol-related mortality in Glasgow, S...
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