M Joffe

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Affiliation: Imperial College
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Health impact assessment in relation to other forms of impact assessment
    Jennifer Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
    J Public Health Med 25:107-12. 2003
  2. ncbi Studying human fertility
    Michael Joffe
    Environ Health Perspect 112:A604-5; author reply A605-6. 2004
  3. ncbi The potential contribution of increased vegetable and fruit consumption to health gain in the European Union
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Public Health Nutr 4:893-901. 2001
  4. ncbi A framework for the evidence base to support Health Impact Assessment
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 56:132-8. 2002
  5. ncbi Invited commentary: the potential for monitoring of fecundity and the remaining challenges
    Michael Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    Am J Epidemiol 157:89-93. 2003
  6. ncbi Health impact assessment
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Occup Environ Med 62:907-12, 830-5. 2005
  7. ncbi What do we need for robust, quantitative health impact assessment?
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London
    J Public Health Med 23:173-8. 2001
  8. ncbi Health impact assessment as an agent of policy change: improving the health impacts of the mayor of London's draft transport strategy
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:169-74. 2004
  9. ncbi A glossary for health impact assessment
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 57:647-51. 2003
  10. ncbi Time trends in biological fertility in Britain
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    Lancet 355:1961-5. 2000

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Publications21

  1. ncbi Health impact assessment in relation to other forms of impact assessment
    Jennifer Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
    J Public Health Med 25:107-12. 2003
    ..This paper describes the development of health impact assessment and its relation to these other forms of impact assessment...
  2. ncbi Studying human fertility
    Michael Joffe
    Environ Health Perspect 112:A604-5; author reply A605-6. 2004
  3. ncbi The potential contribution of increased vegetable and fruit consumption to health gain in the European Union
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Public Health Nutr 4:893-901. 2001
    ..The pattern of both the supply and intake of vegetables and fruit and the potential health gain achieved by increasing intake in the European Union (EU) and three accession countries are presented in this paper...
  4. ncbi A framework for the evidence base to support Health Impact Assessment
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 56:132-8. 2002
    ..To introduce a conceptual structure that can be used to organise the evidence base for Health Impact Assessment (HIA)...
  5. ncbi Invited commentary: the potential for monitoring of fecundity and the remaining challenges
    Michael Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    Am J Epidemiol 157:89-93. 2003
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  6. ncbi Health impact assessment
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Occup Environ Med 62:907-12, 830-5. 2005
  7. ncbi What do we need for robust, quantitative health impact assessment?
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London
    J Public Health Med 23:173-8. 2001
    ..When scientific problems occur, discontinuing the study is not an option, as HIA is usually intended to inform real decisions. Both qualitative and quantitative elements of HIA must be performed robustly to be of value...
  8. ncbi Health impact assessment as an agent of policy change: improving the health impacts of the mayor of London's draft transport strategy
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:169-74. 2004
    ..To increase the positive and mitigate the negative health impacts of the mayor's draft transport strategy for London...
  9. ncbi A glossary for health impact assessment
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 57:647-51. 2003
  10. ncbi Time trends in biological fertility in Britain
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    Lancet 355:1961-5. 2000
    ..This retrospective cohort study examined the hypothesis that biological fertility had also declined. The trend in couple fertility was assessed by means of time to pregnancy (TTP--a sensitive and validated measure of fertility...
  11. ncbi Predicted health impacts of urban air quality management
    J Mindell
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:103-13. 2004
    ..This study modelled the impacts on health of reductions from current levels of PM(10) to these objectives...
  12. ncbi How do we make health impact assessment fit for purpose?
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Public Health 117:301-4. 2003
    ..g. that an HIA has to be able to trade off positive and negative impacts to different groups of people, and that the complexity of social causation prevents clear analysis of cause and effect...
  13. ncbi Maternal obesity and pregnancy outcome: a study of 287,213 pregnancies in London
    N J Sebire
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:1175-82. 2001
    ..The basis of many of the complications is likely to be related to the altered metabolic state associated with morbid obesity...
  14. ncbi The role of biological fertility in predicting family size
    M Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Hum Reprod 24:1999-2006. 2009
    ..Family size has declined and semen quality may have deteriorated in much of Europe, although studies have found an increase rather than a decrease in couple fertility...
  15. ncbi A tentative step towards healthy public policy
    Michael Joffe
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:966-8. 2004
  16. ncbi Time trends in human fecundability in Sweden
    Thomas H Scheike
    Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Epidemiology 19:191-6. 2008
    ..Possible negative trends in male reproductive health are still debated, and their effect on human fertility might be negligible. Time-to-pregnancy (TTP) is a functional measure of couple fecundability...
  17. ncbi Health, livelihoods, and nutrition in low-income rural systems
    Michael Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    Food Nutr Bull 28:S227-36. 2007
    ..An even larger number of people have enough to eat but suffer from severe micronutrient deficiencies...
  18. ncbi Human fertility decline?
    Michael Joffe
    Epidemiology 17:238; author reply 238-9. 2006
  19. ncbi Complex causal process diagrams for analyzing the health impacts of policy interventions
    Michael Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Pl, London W2 1PF, United Kingdom
    Am J Public Health 96:473-9. 2006
    ..Causal diagrams allow the use of instrumental variables, which can help control confounding and reverse causation...
  20. ncbi Studying time to pregnancy by use of a retrospective design
    Michael Joffe
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
    Am J Epidemiol 162:115-24. 2005
    ..Behavior change bias can be minimized by assessing the covariates at the beginning of unprotected intercourse. More complete inference is possible if the study design covers the whole population, not just those who achieve a pregnancy...
  21. ncbi "Evidence of absence" can be important
    Michael Joffe
    BMJ 326:1267. 2003