COMPARABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

International cancer epidemiology meetings.

Two consecutive international meetings on cancer epidemiology took place in Quito, Ecuador, from October 2 to 9, 1991. They were sponsored by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the Pan-Amencan Health Organization (PAHO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society, the Ministry of Health of Spain, the Italian League Against Cancer, and the Ecuadorian So...

Response Conversion for improving comparability of International Physical Activity data.

BACKGROUND Many questionnaires for measuring physical activity (PA) exist. This complicates the comparison of outcomes. METHODS In 8 European countries, PA was measured in random samples of 600 persons, using the IPAQ as a 'bridge' to historical sets of country-specific questions. We assume that a unidimensional scale of PA ability exists on which items and respondents can be placed, irrespec...

Report on Comparability between GCE and International Baccalaureate Examinations

International Epidemiology of Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage is the second most common subtype of stroke. In recent decades our understanding of intracerebral hemorrhage has improved. New risk factors have been identified; more knowledge has been obtained on previously known risk factors; and new imaging techniques allow for in vivo assessment of preclinical markers of intracerebral hemorrhage. In this review the latest developme...

Cultural factors and international epidemiology.

The debate on the role of culture on psychiatric epidemiology has evolved considerably in the past two decades. There is now a general consensus that the integration of the universalist and culturally relativist approaches, and their methodologies, is required to generate a truly international psychiatric epidemiology. The large body of research investigating the influence of culture on the epi...