[EQ] Engendering epidemiology

 

Engendering epidemiology

 

 

December 2007 - Volume 61, Supplement 2
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

 

Website: http://jech.bmj.com/content/vol61/Suppl_2/

 

“…..The aim of this work has been to construct what can be called an engendering epidemiology. Decision makers need sound scientific evidence on which to base decisions about priorities and the actions needed in order to avoid any kind of gender discrimination regarding health promotion, disease prevention and the management of ill people in the population….”

Editorials

	Engendering epidemiology Ana M García, Mel Bartley, and Carlos Alvarez-Dardet J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii1-ii2. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.069658 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]
	Policies, politics and gender research Concha Colomer-Revuelta, Rosana Peiró-Pérez, Rosa M López-Rodríguez, Isabel Espiga-López, Isabel Sáiz-Martínez-Acitores, and Isabel Soriano-Villarroel J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii2-ii3. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.066225 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Research reports

	The contribution of a gender perspective to the understanding of migrants’ health Alicia Llácer, María Victoria Zunzunegui, Julia del Amo, Lucía Mazarrasa, and Francisco Bolumar J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii4-ii10. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.061770 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
	The importance of study design strategies in gender bias research: the case of respiratory disease management in primary care Maria Teresa Ruiz-Cantero, Elena Ronda, and Carlos Álvarez-Dardet J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii11-ii16. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.060301 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
	Applications submitted and grants awarded to men and women in nationwide biomedical competitive research, in 2006, in Spain Rosana Peiró-Pérez, Concha Colomer-Revuelta, Margarita Blázquez-Herranz, and Fernando Gómez-López J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii17-ii19. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.067413 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Theory and methods

	A tool to analyse gender mainstreaming and care-giving models in support plans for informal care: case studies in Andalusia and the United Kingdom María del Mar García-Calvente, Esther Castaño-López, Inmaculada Mateo-Rodríguez, Gracia Maroto-Navarro, and María Teresa Ruiz-Cantero J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii32-ii38. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.060665 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
	Occupational epidemiology and work related inequalities in health: a gender perspective for two complementary approaches to work and health research Lucía Artazcoz, Carme Borrell, Imma Cortàs, Vicenta Escribà-Agüir, and Lorena Cascant J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii39-ii45. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.059774 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
	A framework to analyse gender bias in epidemiological research María Teresa Ruiz-Cantero, Carmen Vives-Cases, Lucía Artazcoz, Ana Delgado, Maria del Mar García Calvente, Consuelo Miqueo, Isabel Montero, Rocío Ortiz, Elena Ronda, Isabel Ruiz, and Carme Valls J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii46-ii53. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.062034 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Evidence-based public health policy and practice

	The incorporation of gender perspective into Spanish health surveys Izabella Rohlfs, Carme Borrell, Lucia Artazcoz, and Vicenta Escribà-Agüir J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii20-ii25. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.059956 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
	Methodological issues in the study of violence against women Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Juncal Plazaola-Castaño, and Carmen Vives-Cases J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii26-ii31. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.059907 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

PostScript

Estrogen’s Storm Season. Stories of Perimenopause Carme Valls-Llobet J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (Supplement 2): ii54. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.065482 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

 

 

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[EQ] Who Needs Cause-of-Death Data - - Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality

 

Who Needs Cause-of-Death Data

 

Peter Byass is at the Umeå International School of Public Health, Umeå, Sweden and Immpact (The Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment), University of Aberdeen, Scotland

PLoS Med 4(11): e333 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040333

 

Available online at: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040333

 

“….More than half of the world's deaths pass by undocumented as to cause [1]. Whilst the appropriate focus of health services may well be the care of the living, consistent and reliable cause-of-death data also constitute a crucial and major resource for health planning and prioritisation, and their lack in many settings is a major concern. Two new papers from Christopher Murray and colleagues in this issue of PLoS Medicine [2,3] report important methodological advances which should go some way towards filling these data gaps….”

 

This Perspective discusses the following new studies published in PLoS Medicine:

 

Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: Validation of a new method.

Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Barofsky JT, Bryson-Cahn C, Lozano R (2007)

PLoS Med 4(11): e326. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040326
Working in Mexico and using vital registration data, Chris Murray and colleagues achieved encouraging results with a new method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fractions.”

 

URL: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0040326

“……Cause-of-death data for many developing countries are not available. Information on deaths in hospital by cause is available in many low- and middle-income countries but is not a representative sample of deaths in the population. We propose a method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) using data already collected in many middle-income and some low-income developing nations, yet rarely used: in-hospital death records…..

 

Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data

Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Feehan DM, Peter ST, Yang G (2007)
PLoS Med 4(11): e 327. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040327
Chris Murray and colleagues propose and, using data from China, validate a new strategy for analyzing verbal autopsy data that combines the advantages of previous methods.

URL: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0040327

 

“…..Cause of death data are a critical input to formulating good public health policy. In the absence of reliable vital registration data, information collected after death from household members, called verbal autopsy (VA), is commonly used to study causes of death. VA data are usually analyzed by physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA). PCVA is expensive and its comparability across regions is questionable. Nearly all validation studies of PCVA have allowed physicians access to information collected from the household members' recall of medical records or contact with health services, thus exaggerating accuracy of PCVA in communities where few deaths had any interaction with the health system. In this study we develop and validate a statistical strategy for analyzing VA data that overcomes the limitations of PCVA….”

 

 

 

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[EQ] Uses of epidemiology, ways of living and dying

Uses of epidemiology, ways of living and dying

International Journal of Epidemiology - Volume 36, Number 6 December 2007

 

Shah Ebrahim

            Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1159-1160; doi:10.1093/ije/dym241 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]   

“…….For me, the remarkable thing about Morris's ‘Uses’ is the direct engagement with public health and clinical medicine with examples that, although 50 years old, feel remarkably fresh in the insight they give and the questions they provoke. Epidemiology for Morris is a method ‘for finding things out, of asking questions, and of getting answers that raise further questions’. The increasing retreat of epidemiology from a contextualized view of itself to a decontextualized science of causation–as characterized by Nancy Krieger² in her thoughtful reflection on epidemiology as history, as population science, and as pragmatic and contextual—loses several of the ‘Uses’, and with them opportunities for improving population health.

Ann Oakley, the daughter of Richard Titmuss—a long-standing collaborator with Morris—highlights the other post-Second World War flowerings of the social medicine project ³. In contrast, Dorothy Porter, traces the theoretical basis of his view of epidemiology from the Enlightenment rationalism to the ‘institutionalization of probabilistic thought’ into a post-Second World War political positivism, and defines his work as ‘late-modernist epidemiology’ because of its application of statistical modernism to health in an era of late-industrial capitalism…..” (au)

 

N Morris

Uses of epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1165-1172; doi:10.1093/ije/dym227 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]   

 

Nancy Krieger

Commentary: Ways of asking and ways of living:
reflections on the 50th anniversary of Morris’ ever-useful Uses of Epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1173-1180; doi:10.1093/ije/dym228 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

 

‘Epidemiology is the only way of asking some questions in medicine, one way of asking others (and no way at all to ask many).’

            Jeremy M. Morris -  Uses of Epidemiology (1957, p. 96)¹

“……To be of use. To Jeremy Morris (b. 1910), writing a half-century ago in his now classic text, Uses of Epidemiology,¹ the promise—and responsibility—of epidemiology was clear: to generate scientific knowledge about the ‘presence, nature and distribution of health and disease among the population’ (p. 96),¹ ultimately in order to ‘abolish the clinical picture’(p. 98).¹ Committed to improving the ‘health of the community’ (p. 96),¹Morris argued that ‘one of the most urgent social needs of the day’ that epidemiology could address was ‘identifying harmful ways of living’ and ‘rules of healthy living’ (p. 98).¹ Uniquely equipping epidemiology to carry out this task was, in his view, its population and historical perspective and . . .  “(au)

Dorothy Porter

Calculating health and social change: an essay on Jerry Morris and Late-modernist epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1180-1184; doi:10.1093/ije/dym229 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]   

Ann Oakley

Fifty years of JN Morris's Uses of Epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1184-1185; doi:10.1093/ije/dym230 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]   

 

 

 

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