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Overdose as a complex contagion: modelling the community spread of overdose events following law enforcement efforts to disrupt the drug market. 吸毒过量是一种复杂的传染病:在执法部门努力扰乱毒品市场后,吸毒过量事件的社区传播模型。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222263
Jamie L Humphrey, Clyde Schwab, Nicholas J Richardson, Barrot H Lambdin, Alex H Kral, Bradley Ray
{"title":"Overdose as a complex contagion: modelling the community spread of overdose events following law enforcement efforts to disrupt the drug market.","authors":"Jamie L Humphrey, Clyde Schwab, Nicholas J Richardson, Barrot H Lambdin, Alex H Kral, Bradley Ray","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222263","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-222263","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The opioid overdose mortality crisis in the USA is an ongoing public health epidemic. Ongoing law enforcement strategies to disrupt local unregulated drug markets can have an iatrogenic effect of increasing overdose by driving consumers towards new suppliers with unpredictable drug products of unknown potency.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional study using point-level information on law enforcement opioid-related drug seizures from property room data, opioid-related non-fatal overdose events from emergency medical services and block group-level social determinants of health data from multiple sources. Using an endemic-epidemic spatiotemporal regression model, we estimated the degree to which exposure to drug supply disruptions triggers future overdose events within small space-time distances in Indianapolis, Indiana.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Neighbourhoods with more structural racism, economic deprivation or urban blight were associated with higher rates of non-fatal overdose. Exposure to an opioid-related drug seizure event had a significant and positive effect on the epidemic probability of non-fatal overdose. An opioid seizure that occurred within 250 m and 3 days, 250 m and 7 days, and 250 m and 14 days of an overdose event increased the risk of a new non-fatal overdose by 2.62 (rate ratio (RR)=2.62, 95% CI 1.87 to 3.67), 2.17 (RR=2.17, 95% CI 1.87 to 2.59) and 1.83 (RR=1.83, 95% CI 1.66 to 2.02), respectively. Similar spatiotemporal patterns were observed in a smaller spatial bandwidth.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results demonstrated that overdoses exhibit a community spread process, which is exacerbated following law enforcement strategies to disrupt the unregulated drug market. We discuss decriminalisation and increasing resources that promote safer drug use to combat this public health crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":"147-152"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142402030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Educational inequalities in deaths of despair in 14 OECD countries: a cross-sectional observational study. 14 个经合组织国家中绝望死亡的教育不平等现象:一项横断面观察研究。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222089
Christopher Lübker, Fabrice Murtin
{"title":"Educational inequalities in deaths of despair in 14 OECD countries: a cross-sectional observational study.","authors":"Christopher Lübker, Fabrice Murtin","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222089","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-222089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Deaths of despair are a key contributor to stagnating life expectancy in the USA, especially among those without a university-level education, but these findings have not been compared internationally.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Mortality and person-year population exposure data were collected in 14 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and cause of death. The sample included 1.4 billion person-year observations from persons aged ≥25 years between 2013 and 2019. Country-specific and sex-specific contributions of deaths of despair to: (a) the life expectancy gap at age 25 and (b) rate differences in age-standardised mortality rates between high and low educational attainment groups were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eliminating deaths of despair could reduce the life expectancy gap in the USA by 1.1 years for men and 0.6 years for women was second only to Korea, where it would reduce the gap by 3.4 years for men and 2.2 years for women. In Italy, Spain and Türkiye, eliminating deaths of despair would improve life expectancy gains by less than 0.1 years for women and 0.3 years for men, closing the educational gap by <1%. Findings were robust to controls for differences in population structures.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Deaths of despair are a major determinant of educational inequalities in longevity in Korea and the USA, while having limited impact in Southern European countries, indicating substantial international variation and scope for improvement in high burden high-income countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":"75-81"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141635926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Applying the health capability profile: an analytical study of leading causes of death in the USA and of pressing public health issues. 应用卫生能力概况:对美国主要死亡原因和紧迫公共卫生问题的分析研究。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2023-220573
Marion Coste, Jennifer J Prah
{"title":"Applying the health capability profile: an analytical study of leading causes of death in the USA and of pressing public health issues.","authors":"Marion Coste, Jennifer J Prah","doi":"10.1136/jech-2023-220573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-220573","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public health problems are complex; investigating them requires a framework that both accounts for multiple interactions among individuals and their intermediate and broader environment and also integrates equity concerns. Incorporating internal and external influences at the individual level, the health capability profile (HCP)'s 15 different health capabilities address this need.Using a systematic three-step deductive content analysis process, we examine hypothetical case studies representing leading causes of death in the USA (eg, heart disease, cancer and diabetes) as well as pressing public health issues such as COVID-19, alcohol use disorder, stigma and discrimination, intimate partner violence and firearm violence. After reviewing the profile (1), each case study is analysed through the framework of the HCP and developed into a flow diagram, through which we identify shortfalls between the observed and optimal levels of each health capability, as well as detrimental or enabling interactions among capabilities (2). We then determine factors and interventions that could help improve overall health capability (3).The HCP harnesses the multitude of unique individual profiles, and through aggregation and analysis, reveals common vulnerabilities (eg, discriminatory social norms and non-evidence-based information), and strengths. It recommends cross-cutting structural policy and programme reforms for institutions, schools, community resources and for individuals to develop a positive set of norms, knowledge, goals, attitudes and habits to chart the path towards health and well-being for all.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142924044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Seasonality in mortality and its impact on life expectancy levels and trends across Europe. 死亡率的季节性及其对整个欧洲预期寿命水平和趋势的影响。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-223050
Isabella Marinetti, Dmitri A Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Marília Nepomuceno, Nazrul Islam, Fanny Janssen
{"title":"Seasonality in mortality and its impact on life expectancy levels and trends across Europe.","authors":"Isabella Marinetti, Dmitri A Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Marília Nepomuceno, Nazrul Islam, Fanny Janssen","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-223050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-223050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Seasonal fluctuations in mortality affect annual life expectancy at birth (e<sub>0</sub>). Nevertheless, evidence on the impact of seasonal mortality on longevity is very limited and mainly restricted to assessing season-specific mortality levels due to shocks (e.g., heatwaves and influenza epidemics). We investigated the influence of seasonality in mortality on life expectancy levels and temporal trends across 20 European countries during 2000-2019.</p><p><strong>Data and methods: </strong>We used harmonised weekly population-level mortality data from the Human Mortality Database. Seasonal contributions to life expectancy at birth and age 65, by sex, were estimated using the excess mortality approach and decomposition analysis. Time-series analysis was used to evaluate the impact on long-term mortality trends.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seasonal mortality had a substantial but stable impact on e<sub>0</sub> between 2000 and 2019. On average, we found an annual reduction in life expectancy due to seasonal excess mortality of 1.14 years for males and 0.80 years for females. Deaths in the elderly population (65+) were the main driver of this impact: around 70% and 90% of these reductions in life expectancy were attributable to older ages. Excess mortality in winter had the strongest impact on annual life expectancy, especially in Portugal and Bulgaria (around 0.8-year loss on e<sub>0</sub>).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study revealed significant cross-country variations in contributions of seasonal mortality. The most pronounced effects were observed in winter months and at older ages. These findings underscore the need for timely and targeted public health interventions to mitigate excess seasonal mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits. 社会经济地位、酒精使用和酒精导致的急诊就诊。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-25 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222476
Brendan T Smith, Claire Benny, Alessandra T Andreacchi, Naomi Schwartz, Christine M Warren, Samantha Forbes, Erin Hobin
{"title":"Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits.","authors":"Brendan T Smith, Claire Benny, Alessandra T Andreacchi, Naomi Schwartz, Christine M Warren, Samantha Forbes, Erin Hobin","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222476","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-222476","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) and heavy episodic drinking or volume of alcohol use on 100% alcohol-attributable emergency department (ED) visits.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a cohort study among 36 900 men and 39 700 women current and former alcohol consumers aged 15-64 from population-representative Canadian Community Health Surveys (2003-2008) linked to administrative ED visit data through 2017 in Ontario and Alberta. We estimated sex-/gender-specific associations between SEP (both education and income) and heavy episodic drinking (≥5 standard drinks on one occasion, at least monthly) or volume of alcohol use (standard drinks per week) on incident alcohol-attributable ED visits and assessed additive interactions using the Synergy Index (S).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Lower levels of education (eg, less than high school vs Bachelor's degree or above: men: adjusted HR (aHR)=3.71, 95% CI 2.47 to 5.58; women: aHR=1.75, 95% CI 1.15 to 2.68) and income (eg, quintile (Q)1 vs Q5, men: aHR=2.07, 95% CI 1.35 to 3.17; women: aHR=1.84, 95% CI 0.91 to 3.71) were associated with increased rates of alcohol-attributable ED visits. Among men and women, superadditive joint effects (ie, greater than the sum of both exposures experienced independently) were observed between low SEP (education and income) and heavy episodic drinking and higher volume of alcohol use on alcohol-attributable ED visits.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Our results indicate that individuals with lower SEP experience increased vulnerability to alcohol use and related harms. These findings highlight the urgent need for population-level interventions that reduce both the high burden and socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA. 美国青少年至成年中期牙科护理使用的种族差异。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-25 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-223202
Alexander Testa, Luis Mijares, Karyn Fu, Dylan Jackson, Carmen Gutierrez, Reed DeAngelis, Kyle Ganson, Jason Nagata, Rahma Mungia
{"title":"Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA.","authors":"Alexander Testa, Luis Mijares, Karyn Fu, Dylan Jackson, Carmen Gutierrez, Reed DeAngelis, Kyle Ganson, Jason Nagata, Rahma Mungia","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-223202","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-223202","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11-43) and investigates racial and ethnic disparities in these patterns.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from Waves I through V of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1993-2018; ages 11-43). Semiparametric group-based trajectory model identified distinct dental care use trajectories. Multinomial logistic regression was used to estimate membership in these trajectory groups by race/ethnicity while accounting for covariates, including socioeconomic status, biological sex, nativity and unmet healthcare needs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The analysis identified four distinct dental care use trajectories (1): Intermittent decreasing dental care use (37.9%), (2) intermittent increasing dental care use (22.5%), (3) high dental care use (22.5%) and (4) low dental care use (17.0%). Non-Hispanic black and Hispanic respondents were more likely than non-Hispanic white respondents to belong to low dental care use and intermittent decreasing dental care use groups relative to high dental care use. Additionally, non-Hispanic black respondents were more likely than non-Hispanic white respondents to belong to the Intermittent Increasing Dental Use group. Higher socioeconomic status was inversely associated with low and intermittent use group membership. Males and those with unmet healthcare needs at Wave I were also more likely to belong to trajectories with low and intermittent dental care use.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings reveal persistent racial disparities in dental care use from adolescence into adulthood. Further research is needed to understand the individual and structural factors perpetuating racial disparities in dental care use over the life course.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Are there any sociodemographic factors associated with non-uptake of HPV vaccination of girls in high-income countries with school-based vaccination programmes? A systematic review. 在以学校为基础的疫苗接种规划的高收入国家中,是否存在与女孩未接种HPV疫苗相关的任何社会人口因素?系统回顾。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-22 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222488
Emily Dema, Roeann Osman, Kate Soldan, Nigel Field, Pam Sonnenberg
{"title":"Are there any sociodemographic factors associated with non-uptake of HPV vaccination of girls in high-income countries with school-based vaccination programmes? A systematic review.","authors":"Emily Dema, Roeann Osman, Kate Soldan, Nigel Field, Pam Sonnenberg","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222488","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-222488","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is generally high in high-income countries with school-based vaccination programmes; however, lower uptake in certain population subgroups could continue pre-immunisation inequalities in cervical cancer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Six electronic databases were searched for quantitative articles published between 1 September 2006 and 20 February 2023, which were representative of the general population, with individual-level data on routine school-based vaccination (with >50% coverage) and sociodemographic measures. Titles, abstracts and full-text articles were screened for eligibility criteria and assessed for bias. A second independent reviewer randomly screened 20% of articles at each stage. A narrative synthesis summarised findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>24 studies based in eight countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK) were included. Studies reported vaccination uptake by individual-level and area-level socioeconomic status (SES), parental education, religion, ethnicity and/or country of birth. 19 studies reported that more than 70% were vaccinated (range: 50.7%-93.0%). Minority ethnic groups and migrants were more likely to have lower vaccination uptake than White groups and non-migrants (11/11 studies). Lower SES was also associated with lower uptake of vaccination (11/17 studies). Associations with other sociodemographic characteristics, such as parental education and religion, were less clear.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Even in high-income countries with high coverage school-based vaccination programmes, inequalities are seen. The totality of available evidence suggests girls from lower SES and minority ethnic groups tend to be less likely to be vaccinated. Findings could inform targeted approaches to mop-up vaccination and cervical cancer screening amidst changing HPV epidemiology in a vaccine era.</p><p><strong>Trial registration number: </strong>CRD42023399648.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being. 适应气候变化:气候变化对心理健康和福祉影响的词汇表。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222716
Claire L Niedzwiedz, Jonathan R Olsen, Jala Rizeq, Tsion Afework, Chiara K V Hill-Harding, Richard J Shaw, Rhian Thomas, Symon M Kariuki, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Andrew J Weaver, Gina Martin, Hester Parr, Esther K Papies
{"title":"Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being.","authors":"Claire L Niedzwiedz, Jonathan R Olsen, Jala Rizeq, Tsion Afework, Chiara K V Hill-Harding, Richard J Shaw, Rhian Thomas, Symon M Kariuki, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Andrew J Weaver, Gina Martin, Hester Parr, Esther K Papies","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222716","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-222716","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of climate change can be direct (resulting from personal exposure to acute and chronic climatic changes), indirect (via the impact on various socioeconomic, political and environmental determinants of mental health) and overarching (via knowledge, education and awareness of climate change). These impacts are unequally distributed according to long-standing structural inequities which are exacerbated by climate change. We outline key concepts and pathways through which climate change may affect mental health and explore the responses to climate change at different levels, from emotions to politics, to highlight the need for multilevel action. We provide a broad reference to help guide researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in the use and understanding of different terms in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142857028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Associations between extreme weather events and child undernutrition: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-2019. 极端天气事件与儿童营养不良之间的关联:来自撒哈拉以南非洲的证据,2010-2019年。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222748
Kenneth Petscavage, Martin Kavao Mutua, Abram Luther Wagner, Emily Treleaven
{"title":"Associations between extreme weather events and child undernutrition: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-2019.","authors":"Kenneth Petscavage, Martin Kavao Mutua, Abram Luther Wagner, Emily Treleaven","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-222748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the burden of undernutrition is high. However, research about associations between natural disasters and undernutrition in early childhood is limited.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We combined anthropometric data of children aged 0-59 months from 51 Demographic and Health Surveys datasets collected from 2010 to 2019 in 30 countries in SSA with information on natural disaster events (flood, drought, other) from the Emergency Events Database database to determine disaster exposure. The analytic sample included 320 479 children. We used generalised estimating equations to predict stunting, wasting and anaemia by disaster exposure and selected covariates.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Almost 20% (19.7%) of children under five were exposed to a natural disaster in the preceding year. In adjusted analysis, children exposed to at least one disaster in the preceding year had a relative risk (RR) of wasting 1.17 times higher than unexposed children (95% CI 1.12, 1.22). Adjusted models examining exposure to drought or flood consistently estimated higher risks of wasting post-disaster (drought RR 1.36, 95% CI 1.26, 1.47; flood RR 1.07, 95% CI 1.02, 1.12). RRs increased when using a 3-month exposure period. However, exposure to natural disaster was not consistently associated with significant differences in RR of stunting or anaemia.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Natural disasters are prevalent in SSA. Given the high risk of wasting associated with disaster exposure, policymakers should prioritise interventions to address wasting in post-disaster settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142857073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995-1997. 青少年精神疾病与成年支付问题之间的联系:1995-1997年挪威出生队列的完整登记研究。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222915
Aapo Hiilamo, Maria Reinholdt Jensen, Åsmund Hermansen
{"title":"Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995-1997.","authors":"Aapo Hiilamo, Maria Reinholdt Jensen, Åsmund Hermansen","doi":"10.1136/jech-2024-222915","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jech-2024-222915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychiatric disorder diagnoses are linked to long-term socioeconomic 'shadows' into adulthood, but little is known about how these diagnoses are associated with adulthood payment problems in Norway and whether these associations are moderated by parental and area characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We combine Norwegian registry data with payment problem records from the public debt enforcement agency for the 1995-1997 birth cohorts (n=173 750). We ascertain behavioural, neurotic, mood and substance use disorder diagnoses from specialised care at ages 13-17. Payment problems are defined as any records of mandatory deductions in wages or benefits up to age 23. Causal forests are used to explore the potential moderating role of sociodemographic variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Some 6% of the sample have payment problems, but the share is higher among men and among people with low childhood socioeconomic status. After adjusting for background characteristics, behavioural problem diagnoses are linked to a 4.6 percentage point higher risk of payment problems (95% CI 4.1 to 5), mood disorder diagnoses to a 2.2 percentage point higher risk (95% CI 1.5 to 2.9), neurotic disorder diagnoses to a 2.5 percentage point higher risk (95% CI 2 to 3.1) and substance use disorder diagnoses to a 9.3 percentage point higher risk (95% CI 7.6 to 10.9). The associations between substance use and behavioural diagnoses and payment problems are stronger for people with low childhood socioeconomic status.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The associations between adolescent substance and behavioural diagnoses and adulthood payment problems are particularly strong among people with low childhood socioeconomic status. Reducing these associations is critical for preventing the accumulation of disadvantages.</p>","PeriodicalId":54839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142820374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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