INTRODUCTION To present the work previously and presently being carried out based on the nationwide Childcare Database. RESEARCH TOPICS The Childcare Database comprises individually linked Danish register-based data on childcare attendance, childcare facility characteristics, child and family characteristics, and infectious disease hospitalisations. The database includes about 1 million child...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the association between psychosocial work factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees by sex. DESIGN A cross sectional survey conducted in 2000 of a representative sample of the European Union total active population, aged 15 years and older. The independent variables were psychological job demands and job control as measure...

OBJECTIVES Diagnostic patterns play a role in asthma prevalence estimates and could have implications for disease management. We sought to determine the extent to which questionnaire-derived estimates of childhood asthma reflect the disease's true occurrence. MATERIALS AND METHODS Children aged 6-12 years from Katowice, Poland, were recruited from a cross-sectional survey (N = 1822) via prima...

BACKGROUND 1) To report site-specific normative values by age, sex and educational level for four components of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery; 2) to estimate the main and interactive effects of age, sex, and educational level by site; and 3) to investigate the effect of site by region and by rural or urban location. METHODS Population-based cross-sectional one phase...

OBJECTIVE Vaccines have prevented the spread of many diseases. However, lower vaccination rates have been found among the minority nationalities of China. We carried out this research to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) in Xunhua Salar Automous County, of childhood immunization, particularly in regard to vaccination to prevent measles. METHODS A close-ended questionnaire was ...

BACKGROUND Both musculoskeletal pain-intensity in relation to a specific location (e.g. lower back or shoulder) and pain in multiple body regions have been shown to be associated with impaired function and sickness absence, but the impact of pain intensity on the association between widespread pain and sickness absence has not been studied. Additionally it is unknown whether care-seeking in gen...

BACKGROUND Recently, there have been a number of studies on the association between XRCC1 polymorphisms and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) risk. However, the results of previous reports are inconsistent. Thus, we performed a meta-analysis to clarify the effects of XRCC1 variants on childhood ALL risk. METHODS A meta-analysis was performed to examine the association between XRCC1...

Long-term adverse health conditions, including secondary malignant neoplasms, are common in childhood cancer survivors. Although mortality attributable to secondary malignancies declined over the past decades, the risk for developing a solid secondary malignant neoplasm did not. Endocrine-related malignancies are among the most common secondary malignant neoplasms observed in childhood cancer s...

BACKGROUND Studies have found that Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS (APHAs) are more likely than non-APHAs to receive suboptimal HIV care, yet achieve similar clinical outcomes with proper care. OBJECTIVE To compare the proportions of individuals diagnosed late with HIV between APHAs and non-APHAs within the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study (OCS). METHODS The analysis includ...

The occurrence of cancer during childhood represents one of the leading causes of death within the pediatric and adolescent age group. It is estimated that approximately 8000 children will be diagnosed annually with cancer in the United States. Epidemiologic research addressing the etiology of childhood cancer has been limited because of the difficulties in identifying a sufficiently large stud...