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Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Conclusions Persistent precarious employment is associated with poorer health, particularly for outcomes with short time lags, though associations are small and causality is highly uncertain. Further research using more robust methods is needed but given potential health harms of persistent precarious employment, exploration of precautionary labour regulations and employment policies is warranted. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - October 10, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Pulford, A., Thapa, A., Thomson, R. M., Guilding, A., Green, M. J., Leyland, A., Popham, F., Katikireddi, S. V. Tags: Open access, Editor's choice Original research Source Type: research

Traumatic brain injury, collision sports participation, and neurodegenerative disorders: narrative power, scientific evidence, and litigation
The present and future burden of neurodegenerative disorder, particularly dementia, for individuals, society, and healthcare systems has been extremely well documented. Dementia currently directly affects around 50 million people globally and, owing to demographic expansion, its prevalence is expected to triple over the following three decades.1 The disappointing results of trials of drug treatments for dementia, and other neurodegenerative disease, such as motor neuron disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and Parkinson’s disease—particularly curative therapies—bring into sharp focus the need to identi...
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - October 10, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Batty, G. D., Kaprio, J. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research

Prediction models of diabetes complications: a scoping review
Conclusion This rigorous knowledge synthesis provides evidence of gaps in the landscape of diabetes complication prediction models. Future studies should address unmet needs for analyses of complications n> and among patient groups currently under-represented in the literature and should consistently report relevant statistics. Scoping review registration https://osf.io/fjubt/ (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ndjaboue, R., Ngueta, G., Rochefort-Brihay, C., Delorme, S., Guay, D., Ivers, N., Shah, B. R., Straus, S. E., Yu, C., Comeau, S., Farhat, I., Racine, C., Drescher, O., Witteman, H. O. Tags: Review Source Type: research

Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level
Conclusions Self-rated health may be considered a good predictor of all-cause mortality in the population of Spain, although the magnitude of this predictive association varies by age and educational level. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Suso-Palau, D., Lopez-Cuadrado, T., Duque-Leon, D., Ortiz, C., Galan, I. Tags: Original research Source Type: research

Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
Conclusion Completeness of CPRD-linked SES and RUC data is high. The CPRD populations were broadly representative of the general populations in the UK in terms of SES and RUC. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Mahadevan, P., Harley, M., Fordyce, S., Hodgson, S., Ghosh, R., Myles, P., Booth, H., Axson, E. Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research

Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among older recipients of public welfare assistance in Japan
Conclusion Older recipients of public welfare have a higher prevalence of suicidal behaviour in Japan. An urgent focus is now warranted on this vulnerable population to determine the specific factors underlying this association. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kino, S., Stickley, A., Nishioka, D., Ueno, K., Saito, M., Ojima, T., Kondo, N. Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research

Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis
Conclusion We identified mutually exclusive patterns of comorbidity, confirming the unfavourable role of those related to metabolic and breast disorders on the risk of BC, and the protective effect of those related to common surgical procedures. FH reported an incremented risk of all the comorbidity patterns. Impact Identifying clusters of comorbidity in patients with BC may help understand their effects and enable clinicians and policymakers to better organise patient and healthcare management. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Dalmartello, M., Vermunt, J., Parazzini, F., Serraino, D., Giacosa, A., Crispo, A., Negri, E., Levi, F., Pelucchi, C., La Vecchia, C. Tags: Original research Source Type: research

Peptic ulcer as mediator of the association between risk of gastric cancer and socioeconomic status, tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and salt intake
Conclusions Our study provides innovative information on the mechanism of stomach mucosal damage leading to PUD and GC, with respect to the effect of tobacco smoking in particular. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Collatuzzo, G., Alicandro, G., Bertuccio, P., Pelucchi, C., Bonzi, R., Palli, D., Ferraroni, M., Ye, W., Plymoth, A., Zaridze, D., Maximovich, D., Aragones, N., Castano-Vinyals, G., Vioque, J., Garcia de la Hera, M., Zhang, Z.-F., Hu, J., Lopez-Carrillo, Tags: Original research Source Type: research

Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study
Conclusions Democratic governance may have played an important role in mitigating the overall health impact of COVID-19 across countries. This study strengthens the case to broaden the scope of traditional pandemic risk assessment and discussions on preparedness. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jain, V., Clarke, J., Beaney, T. Tags: Editor's choice, COVID-19 Original research Source Type: research

Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers
Conclusion While efforts to retain workers with chronic diseases in the labour market should continue, favourable psychosocial working conditions are important for all workers. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: van Zon, S. K. R., Ots, P., Robroek, S. J. W., Burdorf, A., Oude Hengel, K. M., Brouwer, S. Tags: Original research Source Type: research

Occupational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: analysis of the UK ONS COVID-19 infection survey
Conclusions Elevated risks among healthcare workers have diminished over time but education workers have had persistently higher risks. Long-term mitigation measures in certain workplaces may be warranted. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Rhodes, S., Wilkinson, J., Pearce, N., Mueller, W., Cherrie, M., Stocking, K., Gittins, M., Katikireddi, S. V., Tongeren, M. V. Tags: Open access, COVID-19 Original research Source Type: research

Declining COVID-19 mortality risk ratios must be interpreted with caution
In their recent letter in J Epidemiol Community Health, Schultes et al1 examined patterns of declining race/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in Connecticut from March 2020 to December 2021. This work is a helpful contribution to the expanding literature on race/ethnic disparities in SARS-CoV-2 mortality, and due to its attention to the differential toll of SARS-CoV-2 in congregate versus non-congregate settings by race/ethnicity is particularly important. However, motivated by our shared concern about the inequities highlighted by Schultes et al, we feel compelled to address the authors’ contention that their...
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Zelner, J., Naraharisetti, R. Tags: COVID-19 Letters to the editor Source Type: research

Housing and health: an updated glossary
Recent crises have underscored the importance that housing has in sustaining good health and, equally, its potential to harm health. Considering this and building on Howden-Chapman’s early glossary of housing and health and the WHO Housing and Health Guidelines, this paper introduces a range of housing and health-related terms, reflecting almost 20 years of development in the field. It defines key concepts currently used in research, policy and practice to describe housing in relation to health and health inequalities. Definitions are organised by three overarching aspects of housing: affordability (including housing...
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Mansour, A., Bentley, R., Baker, E., Li, A., Martino, E., Clair, A., Daniel, L., Mishra, S. R., Howard, N. J., Phibbs, P., Jacobs, D. E., Beer, A., Blakely, T., Howden-Chapman, P. Tags: Glossary Source Type: research

Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology
Although the theory and methods of legal epidemiology—the scientific study and deployment of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury in a population—have been well developed in the context of domestic law, the challenges posed by shifting the frame of analysis to the global legal space have not yet been fully explored. While legal epidemiology rests on the foundational principles that law acts as an intervention, that law can be an object of scientific study and that law has impacts that should be evaluated, its application to the global level requires the recognition th...
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Poirier, M. J. P., Viens, A. M., Penney, T. L., Rogers Van Katwyk, S., Astbury, C. C., Lin, G., Nanyangwe-Moyo, T., Hoffman, S. J. Tags: Open access Theory and methods Source Type: research

Gender-inclusive writing for epidemiological research on pregnancy
People who have a uterus but are not cisgender women may carry pregnancies. Unfortunately, to date, academic language surrounding pregnancy remains largely (cis) woman-centric. The exclusion of gender-diverse people in the language of pregnancy research in English is pervasive. In reviewing a random sample of 500 recent articles on pregnancy or pregnant populations across health research fields, we found that only 1.2% of articles used gender-inclusive language (none of them in epidemiology), while the remaining 98.8% used (cis) woman-centric language. First and foremost, recent recommendations highlight the need to includ...
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Rioux, C., Weedon, S., London-Nadeau, K., Pare, A., Juster, R.-P., Roos, L. E., Freeman, M., Tomfohr-Madsen, L. M. Tags: Essay Source Type: research