Ambient Air Pollution, Noise, and Late-Life Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk [0.03%]
空气污染、噪声与晚年认知能力下降和痴呆风险的关系
Kimberly C Paul,Mary Haan,Elizabeth Rose Mayeda et al.
Kimberly C Paul et al.
Exposure to ambient air pollution and noise is ubiquitous globally. A strong body of evidence links air pollution, and recently noise, to cardiovascular conditions that eventually may also affect cognition in the elderly. Data that support ...
Allison E Aiello,Lawrence W Green
Allison E Aiello
Assessing the extent to which public health research findings can be causally interpreted continues to be a critical endeavor. In this symposium, we invited several researchers to review issues related to causal inference in social epidemio...
Making Health Research Matter: A Call to Increase Attention to External Validity [0.03%]
让卫生研究产生影响：提高外部有效性的呼吁
Amy G Huebschmann,Ian M Leavitt,Russell E Glasgow
Amy G Huebschmann
Most of the clinical research conducted with the goal of improving health is not generalizable to nonresearch settings. In addition, scientists often fail to replicate each other's findings due, in part, to lack of attention to contextual f...
Causes and Patterns of Dementia: An Update in the Era of Redefining Alzheimer's Disease [0.03%]
痴呆的病因和模式：阿尔茨海默病重新定义时代的更新
Bryan D James,David A Bennett
Bryan D James
The burden of dementia continues to increase as the population ages, with no disease-modifying treatments available. However, dementia risk appears to be decreasing, and progress has been made in understanding its multifactorial etiology. T...
Brain and Salivary Gland Tumors and Mobile Phone Use: Evaluating the Evidence from Various Epidemiological Study Designs [0.03%]
脑肿瘤和唾液腺肿瘤与移动电话使用：来自不同流行病学研究设计的证据评估
Martin Röösli,Susanna Lagorio,Minouk J Schoemaker et al.
Martin Röösli et al.
Mobile phones (MPs) are the most relevant source of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure to the brain and the salivary gland. Whether this exposure implies a cancer risk has been addressed in several case-control and few c...
Marie-Abèle Bind
Marie-Abèle Bind
The field of environmental health has been dominated by modeling associations, especially by regressing an observed outcome on a linear or nonlinear function of observed covariates. Readers interested in advances in policies for improving e...
Howard Frumkin,Andy Haines
Howard Frumkin
Multiple global environmental changes (GECs) now under way, including climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, tropical deforestation, overexploitation of fisheries, ocean acidification, and soil degradation, have substantia...
Peng Jia,Alfred Stein,Peter James et al.
Peng Jia et al.
The United Nations has called on all nations to take immediate actions to fight noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which have become an increasingly significant burden to public health systems around the world. NCDs tend to be more common in ...
Realist Synthesis for Public Health: Building an Ontologically Deep Understanding of How Programs Work, For Whom, and In Which Contexts [0.03%]
公共卫生中的现实综合方法：建立有关项目运作方式、对谁有用以及在什么情境下使用的本体论理解
Justin Jagosh
Justin Jagosh
Realist synthesis is a literature review methodology for understanding how, for whom, and under what circumstances complex interventions function in complex environments. Using a heuristic called the context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configur...
Television News Coverage of Public Health Issues and Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice [0.03%]
电视新闻对公共卫生问题的报道及其对公共卫生政策和实践的影响
Sarah E Gollust,Erika Franklin Fowler,Jeff Niederdeppe
Sarah E Gollust
Television (TV) news, and especially local TV news, remains an important vehicle through which Americans obtain information about health-related topics. In this review, we synthesize theory and evidence on four main functions of TV news in ...