Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Effectiveness of a multi-component hand hygiene intervention in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Nigeria

Background Handwashing with soap reduces infection transmission in schools, yet sustained hygiene service delivery is limited ...
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Neighbourhood racial/ethnic residential segregation and cardiometabolic risk: the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis

Background Racial residential segregation has been linked to adverse health outcomes, but associations may operate through multiple pathways. Prior studies have not examined associations of ...
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From market shocks to metabolic shocks: how acute workplace stress affects cardiometabolic biomarkers in employees

1 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Background Stress affects cardiometabolic health, but evidence linking objective, occupation-specific stressors to individual-level ...
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Back to back housing, courts, and privies: the slums of 19th century England

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Interactions between environmental pollutants and dietary nutrients: current evidence and implications in epidemiological research

Environmental pollutants and nutrients may be present in the same foodstuffs or dietary patterns; share internal mechanisms of transport, metabolism and cellular uptake; or target the same molecular ...
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Association of retirement age with mortality: a population-based longitudinal study among older adults in the USA

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...
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Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary

Correspondence to Ms Jennifer Ervin, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; ...
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Decision modelling for health economic evaluation

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Finding the real case-fatality rate of H5N1 avian influenza

Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...
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Associations between objectively measured physical activity and later mental health outcomes in children: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Background The beneficial effect of physical activity (PA) on mental health in adults is well established, but less is known about this relationship in children. We examine associations between ...
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The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa

Objectives: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and ...
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Editorial Board

Comprehensive list of the editorial board for JECH, including editor in chief, associate editors & social media advisors.