Journal of epidemiology and community health
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J Epidemiol Community Health · May 2001
Suicide in doctors: a study of risk according to gender, seniority and specialty in medical practitioners in England and Wales, 1979-1995.
To investigate the suicide risk of doctors in England and Wales, according to gender, seniority and specialty. ⋯ There is an increased risk of suicide in female doctors, but male doctors seem to be at less risk than men in the general population. The excess risk of suicide in female doctors highlights the need to tackle stress and mental health problems in doctors more effectively. The risk requires particular monitoring in the light of the very large increase in the numbers of women entering medicine.
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J Epidemiol Community Health · May 2001
Prognostic factors in women with breast cancer: distribution by socioeconomic status and effect on differences in survival.
To quantify and investigate differences in survival from breast cancer between women resident in affluent and deprived areas and define the contribution of underlying factors to this variation. ⋯ Deprived women with breast cancer have poorer outcomes than affluent women. This can only partly be explained by deprived women having more ER negative tumours than affluent women. Further research is required to identify other reasons for poorer outcomes in deprived women, with a view to reducing these survival differences.