Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Jun 2009
Clustering of health-compromising behavior and delinquency in adolescents and adults in the Dutch population.
This study investigates the clustering of a broad range of health-compromising and delinquent behaviors. We examine whether these behaviors belong to a single but broad cluster, 'risk-taking behavior', and whether the nature and degree of clustering in adolescents differs from that in adults. ⋯ The findings of this study support a more integrated approach to promoting healthier lifestyles, and suggest that the behavior targets of integrated prevention programs should be different for adolescents and adults.
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Preventive medicine · May 2009
ReviewWorking for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment.
To map the health effects of interventions which aim to alter the psychosocial work environment, with a particular focus on differential impacts by socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity, or age. ⋯ Policy makers should consider organisational level changes to the psychosocial work environment when seeking to improve the health of the working age population.
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Preventive medicine · Apr 2009
Effects of lifestyle on micronuclei frequency in human lymphocytes in Japanese hard-metal workers.
The risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other major causes of mortality are largely attributable to lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol drinking, hours of working and sleeping, physical activity, diet, and stress. Earlier studies have suggested that an unhealthy lifestyle is also associated with increased lymphocyte sensitivity to mutagens, oxidative DNA damage level, and leukocyte DNA damage. In order to explore the genotoxicity of unhealthy lifestyle, we evaluated the effect of overall lifestyle as well as some individual lifestyle factors on micronuclei (MN) frequency in cultured human lymphocytes. ⋯ Taken together, these findings indicate that poor lifestyle habits significantly increase MN frequency in human lymphocytes.
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Preventive medicine · Apr 2009
Are messages about lifestyle walking being heard? Trends in walking for all purposes in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
To examine population trends in lifestyle walking in New South Wales (NSW), Australia between 1998 and 2006. ⋯ Over time, everyday walking has the potential to reduce health inequalities that is due to inactivity. Public health efforts to promote active living and address obesity, as well as a rise in gasoline prices, might have contributed to this trend.
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To study home-based sources of tobacco and associated family factors among Finnish adolescents. ⋯ Parents should be provided with guidance about the consequences of home-based sourcing in the persistence of children's smoking habit.