Fig. 6.1 Cumulative hazard functions for starting mammography screening in Belgium, by dental check-ups and cultural capital during childhood, and education (Nelson-Aalen estimates) Other forms of cultural capital have become…
Fig. 3.1 Impact of oral diseases (Adapted from Daly et al. 2013) The treatment of caries is costly and time consuming. In the UK, the multiple extraction of carious teeth…
Cohort birth years Years turned 18 (historical period) Age range in 1992 Age range in 2010 <1929 <1947 (WWII) 64 and older 82 and older 1929–1936 1947–1954 (Post-WWII/Korean War) 56–63…
Bartley, M., Sacker, A., & Clarke, P. (2004). Employment status, employment conditions, and limiting illness: Prospective evidence from the British household panel survey 1991–2001. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,…
Fig. 4.1 Body size trajectories in the development of cardio-metabolic health Clearly, the three trajectories in Fig. 4.1 are conceptual. While we split this section into life course stages for convenient…
Fig. 2.1 Country-level prevalence of overweight/obesity in children in the European Union Prevalence is shown separately for males (dark grey) and females (light grey) for countries in the European Union…
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: to estimate a population statistic using a sample statistic; to calculate and interpret 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for means and proportions; to…
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: what inequalities in health are and why they are amenable to change; different axes of inequalities in health, how to measure them…
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: how we classify different types of variables; to recognise and define measures of central tendency, variability and range; four measures of disease…
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: What are the global burdens of disease and how they differ between low-middle income and high income countries? What are the wider…
