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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Ausgabe 1/2015

Inhalt (20 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

The impact of childhood vaccines on bacterial carriage in the nasopharynx: a longitudinal study

Christian Bottomley, Abdoulie Bojang, Peter G Smith, Ousainou Darboe, Martin Antonio, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Beate Kampmann, Brian Greenwood, Umberto D’Alessandro, Anna Roca

Open Access Research article

Quantitatively evaluating the effect of social barriers: a case–control study of family members’ opposition and women’s intention to use contraception in Pakistan

Mishal S Khan, Farah Naz Hashmani, Owais Ahmed, Minaal Khan, Sajjad Ahmed, Shershah Syed, Fahad Qazi

Open Access Commentary

Pilgrims and MERS-CoV: what’s the risk?

Tarek Soliman, Alex R Cook, Richard J Coker

Open Access Research article

Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood as a predictor of excessive gestational weight gain and obesity in midlife adulthood

Benjamin W Chaffee, Barbara Abrams, Alison K Cohen, David H Rehkopf

Open Access Research article

Assessing bias in administrative database studies of RotaTeq vaccine completion due to exclusion of subjects with incomplete follow-up

Stephan Lanes, Scott C Quinlan, T Christopher Mast, Sander Greenland, Crystal N Holick

Open Access Reviewer acknowledgement

Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers 2014

Clarence Tam

Open Access Research article

Children and youth with ‘unspecified injury to the head’: implications for traumatic brain injury research and surveillance

Vincy Chan, Robert E. Mann, Jason D. Pole, Angela Colantonio

Open Access Analytic perspective

Adjustment for physical activity in studies of sedentary behaviour

Andrew Page, Geeske Peeters, Dafna Merom

Open Access Analytic perspective

What’s more general than a whole population?

Neal Alexander

Open Access Research article

Sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers tested at STI clinics in the Netherlands, 2006–2013

Maud M. A. Verscheijden, Petra J. Woestenberg, Hannelore M. Götz, Maaike G. van Veen, Femke D. H. Koedijk, Birgit H. B. van Benthem

Open Access Methodology

Development of an international scale of socio-economic position based on household assets

John Townend, Cosetta Minelli, Imed Harrabi, Daniel O. Obaseki, Karima El-Rhazi, Jaymini Patel, Peter Burney

Open Access Analytic perspective

Applying the Bradford Hill criteria in the 21st century: how data integration has changed causal inference in molecular epidemiology

Kristen M. Fedak, Autumn Bernal, Zachary A. Capshaw, Sherilyn Gross

Open Access Research article

Vulnerability of Brazilian municipalities to hantavirus infections based on multi-criteria decision analysis

Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Lidsy Ximenes Fonseca, Keline Medeiros de Araújo Vilges, Fernanda Voietta Pinna Maniglia, Simone Valéria Costa Pereira, Eduardo Pacheco de Caldas, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves

Open Access Methodology

Design and implementation of a sexual health intervention for migrant construction workers situated in Shanghai, China

Joshua B. Mendelsohn, Liviana Calzavara, Lucia Light, Ann N. Burchell, Jinma Ren, Laiyi Kang

Open Access Research article

High-frequency use of corrections, health, and social services, and association with mental illness and substance use

Julian M. Somers, Stefanie N. Rezansoff, Akm Moniruzzaman, Carmen Zabarauckas

Open Access Research article

County-level hurricane exposure and birth rates: application of difference-in-differences analysis for confounding control

Shannon C. Grabich, Whitney R. Robinson, Stephanie M. Engel, Charles E. Konrad, David B. Richardson, Jennifer A. Horney