Sex- and Type-specific Genital Human Papillomavirus Transmission Rates Between Heterosexual Partners: A Bayesian Reanalysis of the HITCH Cohort
Conclusion:
Our updated analysis supports previous research suggesting higher women-to-men than men-to-women HPV transmission rates and a protective effect of condoms in heterosexual partnerships. Our results also suggest that crude incidence rates underestimate HPV transmission rates due to interval-censoring. See video abstract at http://links.lww.com/EDE/B794. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research
Incorporating Information on Control Diseases Across Space and Time to Improve Estimation of the Population-level Impact of Vaccines
Conclusions:
When synthetic control struggles to identify important prevaccine associations due to noise in control time series, users can aggregate controls over time or space to generate more robust estimates of the vaccine impact. DLMs automate this process without requiring prespecification of the aggregation level. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research
Immunologic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Norovirus Transmission in Daycare and School Outbreaks
Conclusions:
The epidemiology of norovirus outbreaks in daycare and school settings cannot be well described by a simple transmission model in which all individuals start as fully susceptible. More studies on how best to design interventions which leverage population immunity and encourage more rigorous individual exclusion may improve venue-level control measures. See video abstract at http://links.lww.com/EDE/B795. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research
Mediating to Opportunity: The Challenges of Translating Mediation Estimands into Policy Recommendations
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Psychosocial Epidemiology Source Type: research
Helped into Harm: Mediation of a Housing Voucher Intervention on Mental Health and Substance Use in Boys
Conclusions:
This evidence suggests that, even though the intervention had the desired effects on neighborhood poverty and the school environment, these “positives” ultimately negatively impacted the long-term mental health and behaviors of boys. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Psychosocial Epidemiology Source Type: research
Trends from 2008 to 2018 in Electricity-dependent Durable Medical Equipment Rentals and Sociodemographic Disparities
Background:
Duration and number of power outages have increased over time, partly fueled by climate change, putting users of electricity-dependent durable medical equipment (hereafter, “durable medical equipment”) at particular risk of adverse health outcomes. Given health disparities in the United States, we assessed trends in durable medical equipment rental prevalence and individual- and area-level sociodemographic inequalities.
Methods:
Using Kaiser Permanente South California electronic health record data, we identified durable medical equipment renters. We calculated annual prevalence of equipment rent...
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Environmental Epidemiology Source Type: research
Tropical Cyclone Exposures and Risks of Emergency Medicare Hospital Admission for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in 175 Urban United States Counties, 1999–2010
Conclusions:
In this study, tropical cyclone exposures were associated with a short-term increase in cardiorespiratory hospitalization risk among the elderly, based on a multi-year/multi-site investigation of US Medicare beneficiaries ≥65 years. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Environmental Epidemiology Source Type: research
In Memoriam: George R. Seage III, 1957–2021
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Remembrance Source Type: research
Thanks to Our Reviewers
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - April 9, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Appreciation Source Type: research
Erratum: A graphical description of partial exchangeability
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - February 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Erratum Source Type: research
A Graphical Description of Partial Exchangeability
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - February 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Letters Source Type: research
ppmHR: A Privacy-protecting Tool to Fit Inverse Probability Weighted Cox Models in Multisite Studies
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - February 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Letters Source Type: research
The Serpent of Their Agonies: Exploitation as Structural Determinant of Mental Illness
Conclusions:
Exploitation is associated with mental illness. Focusing on exploitation rather than its consequences (e.g., socioeconomic status), shifts attention to a structural process that may be a more appropriate explanatory mechanism, and a more pragmatic intervention target, for mental illness. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - February 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal Trends in Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race for Counties in Ohio
Conclusions:
County-level opioid overdose death rates increased faster for Blacks than Whites during the study. By 2018, death rates were comparable for Blacks and Whites in many counties. The opioid epidemic spans racial groups in Ohio and trends indicate that overdose is a growing problem among Blacks. (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - February 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Target Trial: A Powerful Device Beyond Well-defined Interventions
No abstract available (Source: Epidemiology)
Source: Epidemiology - February 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
