In recent years, health inequalities have become an important public health concern and the subject of both research and policy attention in Korea. Government reports, as well as many epidemiological studies, have provided evidence that a wide range of health outcomes and health-related behaviors are socioeconomically patterned, and that the magnitude of health inequalities is even increasing. ...

This paper reviews some conceptual and practical issues regarding the application of georeferenced data in epidemiologic research. Starting with the disease mapping tradition of geographical medicine, topics such as types of georeferenced data, implications for data analysis, spatial autocorrelation and main analytical approaches are heuristically discussed, relying on examples from the epidemi...

With the introduction of the Food Safety Initiative in 1997, food safety activities and research funding have increased dramatically. Advances in microbiological methods and epidemiologic research have provided significant progress in our understanding of foodborne diseases and in our implementation of control programs. This article highlights some of those food safety activities and epidemiolo...

Heavy industrialization has resulted in the contamination of soil by metals from anthropogenic sources in Anniston, Alabama. This situation calls for increased public awareness of the soil contamination issue and better knowledge of the main factors contributing to the potential sources contaminating residential soil. The purpose of this spatial epidemiology research is to describe the effects ...

This paper presents information on Japan's contribution to reputable epidemiologic journals as compared to other leading countries. Ten journals in the field of epidemiology with high impact factors were selected. Articles published in these journals during the period between 1991 and 2000 were searched for the authors' affiliation using Medline database. We found that Japan contributed only 1....

background: profile of acute poisonings varies from country to country depending on the ease of availability of substances and socio-economic condition of people; however, very little information from the united arab emirates (uae) have been published, so far. this study was designed to find out the most common causes of overdose and poisoning in patients admitted to the emergency department of...

objectives in this section, we studied dietary and other factors related to the effect of lifestyle in type 2 diabetes. these factors may affect the incidence of type 2 diabetes which could be corrected by lifestyle modifications. background prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide. recent data is reprehensive of increasing diabetes prevalence from 285 millions in 2010 (6.4...

Like many other fields, psychiatric researchers rely heavily on the utilization of conventional epidemiologic designs and principles to pursue their scientific objectives. However, some of the issues, which to a large extent are specific to psychiatric disorders, have demanded that new designs and hence new statistical methods be developed to meet the challenges. These issues include, among oth...

INTRODUCTION In 2004, baseline surveys of Project MYTRI, a randomized intervention trial in Chennai and Delhi, India, found that tobacco use among 6th graders was greater than that among 8th graders. These results were surprising - typically, tobacco use increases with grade level. The present study aimed to assess whether this unique differential was sustained over time, as students moved into...