Introduction: Childhood cancer is a small proportion of all cancers but still major public health problem. Objective: To describe the 5-year incidence and mortality rates net survival childhood in Uruguay. Method: Data on malignant tumors diagnosed children aged 0-14 were included for period 2011-2015, obtained from National Pediatric Registry Cancer Ministry Health Mortality Registry, classifi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to characterise rates of late mortality and second cancers in an Australian cohort of childhood cancer survivors and compare these to rates observed in the New South Wales population. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Records for 896 childhood cancer survivors treated at the Sydney Children's Hospital between 1972 and 1999 were linked to the National Death I...

OBJECTIVES A life course perspective is used to examine the epidemiology of severe obesity in adulthood, defined as a body mass index > or = 35 kg/m(2). METHODS Data from adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Followup Study, including their reports of childhood overweight, were used to examine the risk of severe obesity and mortality over 20 years (N ...

Survivors of childhood cancer have a higher mortality than the general population. We describe cause-specific long-term mortality in a population-based cohort of childhood cancer survivors. We included all children diagnosed with cancer in Switzerland (1976-2007) at age 0-14 years, who survived ≥5 years after diagnosis and followed survivors until December 31, 2012. We obtained causes of death ...

OBJECTIVE Many life span personality-and-health models assume that childhood personality traits result in life-course pathways leading through morbidity to mortality. Although childhood conscientiousness in particular predicts mortality, there are few prospective studies that have investigated the associations between childhood personality and objective health status in adulthood. The present s...

BACKGROUND Injury is the major cause of death and suffering among children and adolescents, but awareness of the problem and political commitment for preventive actions remain unacceptably low. We have assessed variation in the burden of injuries in childhood and adolescence in eight European countries. METHODS Hospital, emergency department, and mortality databases of injury patients aged 0-...

OBJECTIVES Demographically describing the present and future for Mexican children to correlate aspects regarding demographic and social equity during childhood and describing the challenges these variables represent for Mexican children during the next few years. METHODS The present and future scenario for Mexican childhood was evaluated using existing population projections. Mortality rates ...

BACKGROUND The mechanisms underlying socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are largely unknown. We studied the contribution of childhood socioeconomic conditions and adulthood risk factors to inequalities in CVD mortality in adulthood. METHODS The prospective GLOBE study was carried out in the Netherlands, with baseline data from 1991, and linked with the ...

Recent research suggests that childhood cognitive performance is associated with various health outcomes, but the nature of the relation is not well understood. It is unclear whether the association occurs across the continuum of cognitive performance, and if it is independent of socioeconomic status. Prospective data from the Terman Life Cycle Study were used to evaluate the hypothesis of a mo...

Increasingly, social scientists are turning to childhood to gain a better understanding of the fundamental social causes of adult mortality. However, evidence of the link between childhood and the mortality of adults is fragmentary, and the intervening mechanisms remain unclear. Drawing on the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, our analysis shows that men's mortality is associated with ...