Kate Hunt

..If the latter, film smoking exposure could become a more important risk factor for smoking uptake and maintenants in older adolescents following the recent ban on smoking in public places in Scotland...

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..This was the objective of the present study..

..If public health interventions are to be successfully implemented, it is first important to identify correlates of such behaviours, including socioeconomic disadvantage. This was the aim of the present study...

..We examined the potential relation of mental ability test scores at age 10 years with alcohol problems and alcohol intake at age 30 years...

..The purpose of this analysis was to examine parents' views on the role the media, politicians and health professionals have played in providing credible evidence about MMR safety...

..The objective of this study is to compare men and women's accounts of chemotherapy-induced alopecia...

..g. smoking), but psychological factors and broader social constructions of gender are rarely considered...

..To explore how the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine controversy impacted on the lives of parents caring for children with autism...

..One study has suggested that the number of symptoms people experience may be an important predictor of mortality. This novel and potentially important finding may have important implications but needs to be tested in other cohorts...

..Debate continues about the causes of the gender gap, although smoking is known to have been a major contributor to the difference in the past...

..We locate these narratives within academic debates about conceptualising gender: e.g. 'gender as structure' versus 'gender as performance', 'gender as difference' versus 'gender as diversity'...

..Secondly, the focus on prevalence rates of HPV infection among women and on women's sexual behaviours, in relation to HPV vaccination 'encouraging' promiscuity, is an unhelpful aspect of media coverage...

..We sought to explore longitudinal study participants' response to receiving individual written feedback of weight-related and blood results, and to consider the balance of harms against benefits...

..To date no studies have reported on film images of recreational drug use and young people's own drug use...

..This study offers insights from school nurses' perspectives and experiences of delivering this new vaccination programme...

..g. working as a fire-fighter, or maintaining sexual performance or function). Few other studies have emphasised how men negotiate deviations from the hegemonic view of help-seeking...

..Whilst on the one hand these data suggest the importance of taking more account of the broader (social, historical or political) context, the analysis also highlights the methodological problems posed...

..This study was to examine whether overall physical activity levels, and different types of earlier sporting activities, are associated with the onset of locomotor disability in early older age...

..This assumption is reinforced by qualitative studies reporting a widespread reluctance to consult by men. However, few studies directly compare consultation in men and women experiencing similar symptoms or conditions...

..However, the only study to date in the UK to test for an association showed no relation between film-smoking exposure and smoking among young adults...

..To investigate people's views of using 'general facts' and information about other people's 'personal experiences' for health-related decision-making...

..This paper explores whether gender differences in these behaviours persist or disappear among men and women occupying similar social roles: working in the same non-manual jobs in Britain...

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..The results raise a number of questions and suggest that suicide researchers should pay more attention to gender roles and attitudes in older adults...

..Health professionals need to be aware of the issues raised by men's narratives which emphasise control, strength and responsibility to others...

..This study examines the content of newspaper articles covering her illness to consider whether 'mobilising information' which could encourage women to adopt risk-reducing and health promoting behaviours has been included...

..Further research on what makes evidence more comprehensible, convincing and useable would contribute to understanding how to bridge the gulf between evidence and practice...

..A/H1N1, more commonly referred to as swine flu, emerged in Mexico in spring 2009. It rapidly spread across the world and was classed as a global pandemic on 11 June 2009...