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Relationship between health services outcomes and social and economic outcomes in workplace injury and disease: data sources and methods.

BACKGROUND: Understanding the mediating role of health care in mitigating social, economic and occupational role disability is a complex task. METHODS: No single method of research will be successful in addressing all elements of this NORA research priority area. In this paper, we argue that research methods are needed which have the following components: (1) the detailed measurement of therapeutic intervention and the impacts of this intervention on clinical and functional health status using study designs which rule out competing explanations, (2) a longitudinal follow-up component which measures social, economic, and occupational role function following the conclusion of therapy, and (3) a commitment to execute studies across multiple settings to observe the variations in health care and in social and occupational role function that arise as a result of differences in labor market factors and employer and government policies. CONCLUSIONS: More comprehensive portraits of the longitudinal trajectory of individual workers, social, economic and occupational role function following an occupational injury or illness will have significance for a large number of policy sectors.

Accidents, Occupational↗

The geography of dual career households: a research agenda and selected evidence from secondary data sources for Britain.

"Amongst the key dimensions of population and labour market change in most parts of western Europe and other similar economies in the 1990s are low fertility rates, rising numbers of smaller households, increasing female participation rates, growth in higher level non-manual occupations and the spread of flexible employment patterns. This paper explores how these trends have led to an increase in the number and significance of one particular subgroup: dual career households. An overview from available secondary sources of the geography and socio-economic characteristics of such households in Britain is presented, and directions for possible future research on dual career households are outlined."

Developed Countries↗

Differences in morbidity measures and risk factor identification using multiple data sources: the case of coronary heart disease.

The NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study contains several sources of information that can be used to define case status. Incidence rates and relative risks associated with selected, documented risk factors for heart disease were estimated using nine different case definitions. Despite wide variation in the estimates of incidence, the characteristics of the cases were remarkably similar as were the risks associated with heart disease incidence. The main difference occurred when cases were defined on the basis of death certificate information. Cases defined this way are more severe and models based on this definition result in relative risks of greater magnitude.

Aged↗

A tool for gene expression based PubMed search through combining data sources.

UNLABELLED: We present a new tool for the semi-automated querying of PubMed using a batch of tens to thousands of GenBank accession numbers or UniGene cluster ids. By combining information from UniGene and SWISS-PROT, microGENIE obtains information on the biological relevance of expressed genes, as identified by micro-array experiments, with minimal user intervention and time investment. AVAILABILITY: microGENIE is freely available from http://www.cs.vu.nl/microgenie SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The web site above supplies examples of input and output files.

Database Management Systems↗

The data sources which may help strengthen the epidemiological evidence for the hormonal hypothesis of sex determination in man.

The hypothesis that parental hormone levels around the time of conception partially control offspring sex ratios-though here taken to be true in substance-will need a great deal of work to specify with any accuracy. We do not know with any certainty which hormones are involved, nor how they are implicated. Answers to these two questions are only likely to emerge after prolonged experimental work. And it is fair to say that that work has not yet started. I assume that experimental workers will not embark on such a project until it is perfectly clear that there is a watertight case that mammalian parental hormone levels somehow influence offspring sex ratios. The present note indicates where further (human) evidence for that case will be found. In regard to human beings, much of the required information is held by clinics and registries not primarily concerned with reproductive biology. This point is illustrated here in regard to toxicology, teratology, radiation medicine, neurology, psychiatry, oncology, dermatology, rheumatology, occupational medicine and sports medicine as well as obstetrics and gynaecology. Tests (based on the hypothesis) are offered for intrauterine endocrine causes of malformations, and for pre- and post-natal endocrine causes of disease.

Congenital Abnormalities↗