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Economic Evaluation of Health Consequences of Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure in France
(BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Evidence of a dose–response relationship between prenatal exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) and neurodevelopmental consequences in terms of IQ reduction, makes it possible to evaluate the economic consequences ... -
Economic Evaluation of Newborn Hearing Screening: Modelling Costs and Outcomes
(German Medical Science, 2003)Objectives: The prevalence of newborn hearing disorders is 1-3 per 1,000. Crucial for later outcome are correct diagnosis and effective treatment as soon as possible. With BERA and TEOAE low-risk techniques for early ... -
Economic evaluation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in The Gambia
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Gambia is the second GAVI support-eligible country to introduce the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), but a country-specific cost-effectiveness analysis of the vaccine is not available. Our objective ... -
Economic Opportunity, Health Behaviors, and Mortality in the United States
(, 2016)Objectives. We assessed whether economic opportunity was independently associated with health behaviors and outcomes in the United States.Methods. Using newly available, cross-sectional, county-level data from the Equality ... -
Economic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis with a national sample, 1986–2001
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2008)Objective: Little is known about whether economic crises widen health inequalities. Japan experienced more than 10 years of economic recession beginning in the 1990s. The question of whether socioeconomic-based inequality ... -
Economic, Environmental and Health Implications of Enhanced Ventilation in Office Buildings
(MDPI, 2015)Introduction: Current building ventilation standards are based on acceptable minimums. Three decades of research demonstrates the human health benefits of increased ventilation above these minimums. Recent research also ... -
Economics of Malaria Prevention in US Travelers to West Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Background. Pretravel health consultations help international travelers manage travel-related illness risks through education, vaccination, and medication. This study evaluated costs and benefits of that portion of the ... -
The Economics of Medicaid Reform and Block Grants
(American Medical Association, 2017)Since its passage in 1965, Medicaid has expanded and contracted with the political tides. With concurrent Republican executive and legislative control in 2017, conservative policy makers have already declared their desire ... -
edgeRun: an R package for sensitive, functionally relevant differential expression discovery using an unconditional exact test
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Summary: Next-generation sequencing platforms for measuring digital expression such as RNA-Seq are displacing traditional microarray-based methods in biological experiments. The detection of differentially expressed genes ... -
Editor's choice: Erythrocyte Superoxide Dismutase, Glutathione Peroxidase, and Catalase Activities and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Generally Healthy Women: A Prospective Study
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Erythrocyte antioxidant enzymes are major circulating antioxidant enzymes in the oxidative stress defense system. Few prospective studies have assessed the association between these enzymes and the risk of coronary heart ... -
Editor's choice: HIV Infection and the Incidence of Malaria Among HIV-Exposed Children from Tanzania
(Oxford University Press, 2012)To determine whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with increased risk of malaria incidence and recurrence in children.Newborn infants of HIV-infected mothers were enrolled at 6 weeks and ... -
Editorial: The Great Procrastination
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Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda, Human Rights, Evidence, and Open-Access Publishing
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Education and Coronary Heart Disease Risk
(SAGE Publications, 2014)OBJECTIVE Education is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, however the mechanisms are poorly understood. The study objectives were to evaluate the extent to which rarely measured factors (literacy, ... -
Education and Coronary Heart Disease Risk Associations May Be Affected by Early Life Common Prior Causes: A Propensity Matching Analysis
(, 2012)PURPOSE: Education is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD); however whether this is attributable to causal effects of schooling rather than potential confounders existing before school entry (eg, childhood ... -
Education and Smoking: Confounding or Effect Modification by Phenotypic Personality Traits?
(, 2009)Background Little is known about whether educational gradients in smoking patterns can be explained by financial measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and/or personality traits.Purpose To assess whether the relationship ... -
Education determines a nation's health, but what determines educational outcomes? A cross-national comparative analysis
(2012)This study is premised on the notion that public health policy should address not only health itself, but also primary determinants of health. We examined the effect of national policies on educational outcomes, in particular, ... -
Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Background Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established.Methods We investigated the association between ...