Journal of epidemiology and community health
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J Epidemiol Community Health · May 2005
Breast cancer survival in South Asian women in England and Wales.
To estimate ethnic and socioeconomic differences in breast cancer incidence and survival between South Asians and non-South Asians in England and Wales, and to provide a baseline for surveillance of cancer survival in South Asians, the largest ethnic minority. ⋯ This national study confirms that breast cancer incidence is substantially lower in South Asians than other women in England and Wales. It also provides some evidence that South Asian women diagnosed up to 1990 had higher breast cancer survival than other women in England and Wales, both overall and in each category of deprivation.
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J Epidemiol Community Health · Apr 2005
Risk of breast cancer after miscarriage or induced abortion: a Scottish record linkage case-control study.
To assess the risk of breast cancer in patients with a previous history of miscarriage or induced abortion. ⋯ These data do not support the hypothesis that miscarriage or induced abortion represent substantive risk factors for the future development of breast cancer.
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J Epidemiol Community Health · Feb 2005
Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries.
To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. ⋯ In Italy, a country where health care and education are universally available, and with a strong social safety net, income inequality had an independent and more powerful effect on life expectancy at birth than did per capita income and educational attainment. Italy had a moderately high degree of income inequality and an average life expectancy compared with other wealthy countries. The cross national analyses showed that the relation between income inequality and population health has not disappeared.
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J Epidemiol Community Health · Jan 2005
Reliability and validity of the short form of the child health questionnaire for parents (CHQ-PF28) in large random school based and general population samples.
This study assessed the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the 28 item short child health questionnaire parent form (CHQ-PF28) containing the same 13 scales, but only a subset of the items in the widely used 50 item CHQ-PF50. ⋯ This study showed that the CHQ-PF28 resulted in score distributions, and discriminative validity that are comparable to its longer counterpart, but that the internal consistency of most individual scales was low. In community health applications, the CHQ-PF28 may be an acceptable alternative for the longer CHQ-PF50 if the summary measures suffice and reliable estimates of each separate CHQ scale are not required.