Infant mortality (IM) and birth outcomes, key population health indicators, have lifelong implications for individuals, and are unequally distributed globally. Even among western industrialized nations, striking cross-country and within-country patterns are evident. We sought to better understand these variations across and within the United States of America (USA) and Western Europe (WE), by c...

Models of collective action infrequently account for differences across individuals beyond a limited set of strategies, ignoring variation in endowment (e.g. physical condition, wealth, knowledge, personality, support), individual costs of effort, or expected gains from cooperation. However, behavioural research indicates these inter-individual differences can have significant effects on the dy...

Depressive symptoms in adolescents are an increasing public health issue in Sweden and in most Western countries. Aim: To explore how individual, psychosocial, and structural determinants are associated with depressive symptoms in Swedish adolescents. Methods: A webbased questionnaire was answered by 1193 13to 16-year-old boys (n = 566) and girls (n = 627). Stepwise logistic regressions were em...

OBJECTIVES A system for retrospective occupational exposure assessment combining the efficiency of a job exposure matrix (JEM) and the precision of a subsequent individual expert exposure assessment (IEEA) was developed. All steps of the exposure assessment were performed by an interdisciplinary expert panel in the context of a case-control study on male germ cell cancer nested in the car manuf...

The adoption process within organizational settings, which is different from traditional individual adoption, involves both the primary adoption by managers and the secondary adoption by employees. Understanding what determinants influence employees to deeply use information systems (IS) would help managers improve the process of facilitating system implementation. This study explores the deter...

Widespread recognition is given to the idea that an individual's health is influenced by the ways an individual works, rests and plays as well as genetic endowments. More recently, some researchers have suggested that the relationships between individual 'characteristics' and health are influenced by the context or community of the individual. Although the notion of the community as a determina...

OBJECTIVE Previous research has found that conscientiousness has positive associations with preventative health-related behaviors and self-perceived health, but little is known about the links between changes in these variables over time. In the present study, we examined how levels and changes in conscientiousness were linked to levels and changes in both preventative health-related behaviors ...

Individual variability in cytochrome P450 (P450) induction comprises an important component contributing to the difficulties in assessing and predicting metabolism-based drug-drug interactions in humans. In this article, we outline the major factors responsible for the individual variability in P450 induction, including variable transporter activity and metabolism of inducers in vivo, genetic v...

Background Nationally representative surveys are vital for gauging progress in health and planning health services. However, often marred with inadequate analysis to provide any guidance to health policy and planning. Most recent Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2012-2013 is an inclusive nationally representative investigation. Nonetheless, its published report offers limited evide...