BMJ

Effect of sporting activity on absenteeism in a working population

2 RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Hygiene), Bilthoven, The Netherlands 3 Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU ...
IEEE

An Adaptive Population Importance Sampler: Learning From Uncertainty

Abstract: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are well-known computational techniques, widely used in different fields such as signal processing, communications and machine learning. An important class of MC ...
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Guide to recent advances in difference-in-differences methodology for population health studies

Background Difference-in-differences is a method commonly used in population health research. It is based on assumptions that ...
BMJ Open

Primary care use among adults with eating disorders in England: a population-based cohort study using electronic health records

Objectives To examine primary care contacts among individuals with eating disorders (EDs) and assess differences across ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Contrastive Machine Learning to Quantify Hypertensive Multiorgan Damage and Identify New Disease Phenotypes: A Multinational Multimodal Study

BACKGROUND: Hypertension induces structural and functional damage in multiple organs. Evidence of subclinical damage ...
BMJ

Cycling and cardiovascular disease risk factors including body composition, blood lipids and cardiorespiratory fitness analysed as continuous variables: Part 2—systematic ...

Objectives We aimed to examine the relationship between cycling (particularly commuter cycling) and risk factors associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) including body composition, blood lipids ...
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Human rights panel accuses Canada of genocide against Indigenous population

MONTREAL — An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal. The Permanent Peoples' ...
Investopedia

Operating Costs: Key Types, Formulas, and Examples

Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect of the financial world, from investing in forex to paying for ...
The Conversation

The NZ Census guided vital economic and social planning. What happens now it’s gone?

The old New Zealand Census – first conducted in 1851 – is to be no more. In its place will be a new and largely untried system that could potentially undermine the statistical basis of crucial social ...
The Economist

A contracting population need not be a catastrophe

According to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the father of at least a dozen children, the greatest potential risk to the future of civilisation is population collapse. Taking a very long-term ...
itep

Two in Three Americans Live in States with Variable-Rate Gas Taxes

Gas taxes are levied in every state and are an important part of how states fund their transportation infrastructure. State legislators are increasingly realizing that it doesn’t work to let gas taxes ...
WebMD

Types of Mental Illness

There are many different conditions that are recognized as mental illnesses. The more common types include: Other diseases or conditions, including various sleep-related problems and many forms of ...