Browsing Institute of Population Health Sciences by Subject "public health"
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Advancing public health policy making through research on the political strategies of alcohol industry actors.
(2020-05-26)Development and implementation of evidence-based policies is needed in order to ameliorate the rising toll of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Alcohol is a key cause of the mortality burden and alcohol policies are ... -
Cohort profile update: The Yorkshire Health Study.
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An ecological study of publicly funded elective hip arthroplasties in Brazil and Scotland: do access inequalities reinforce the inverse care law?
(2020-05)OBJECTIVES: To compare elective hip arthroplasty rates funded by the public sector in Brazil and Scotland. DESIGN: Ecological study, 2009-13, of crude and directly standardised rates of elective primary hip arthroplasty ... -
Protocol for the development of the Wales Multimorbidity e-Cohort (WMC): data sources and methods to construct a population-based research platform to investigate multimorbidity.
(BMJ, 2021-01-19)INTRODUCTION: Multimorbidity is widely recognised as the presence of two or more concurrent long-term conditions, yet remains a poorly understood global issue despite increasing in prevalence.We have created the Wales ... -
Rapid, early and accurate SARS-CoV-2 detection using RT-qPCR in primary care: a prospective cohort study (REAP-1).
(2021-08-02)OBJECTIVES: We explore the importance of SARS-CoV-2 sentinel surveillance testing in primary care during a regional COVID-19 outbreak in Austria. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: A single sentinel practice serving ...