This study is the first large population based study of adult oral health in Sudan.
We took prevalence of depression as 20% (based on a previous health center based study of elderly depression in Karachi) [ 22] and assumed the proportion of elderly not having family support as 50%.
Still, all community based studies of reproductive health should explicitly ascertain and report the clinical presence or absence of fistula, even when the sample size is small.
The ability to conduct linkage of perinatal records, obtained as part of routinely collected administrative health data, has increased the scope for population based studies of mother and infant health [ 1].
We developed a longitudinal population-based study of health disparities on a socioeconomically diverse sample of young to middle-aged African Americans and Whites in Baltimore, MD.
Refugee health refers to the evidence-based study of health issues related to persons forced to flee from their home countries due to conflict, torture or other forms of violence and the effect this has on their overall health.
Data from 3,993 individuals (2,027 women) aged 20-79 years from the population-based Study of Health of Pomerania (SHIP) were used to analyse cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of PRL with MetS and T2DM risk in age- and multivariable-adjusted Poisson regression models.
A major weakness of the study, inherent in any population based survey of health literacy, is the potential for non-response bias.
We therefore undertook a comprehensive population based study to evaluate the effectiveness of the public health strategy of food fortification with folic acid and to determine possible adverse effects resulting from fortification.
The study was nested in the Newcastle 85+ Study, a population based longitudinal study of health and ageing in the very old.
The Australian Rural Mental Health Study (ARMHS) is a longitudinal population based study established to examine the determinants of mental health in rural and remote communities.
