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| Vera MannSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Pesticide-related illness reported to and diagnosed in primary care: implications for surveillance of environmental causes of ill-healthLesley Rushton
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W21PG, UK
BMC Public Health 9:219. 2009..This study aimed to investigate the extent and nature of pesticide-related illness presented and diagnosed in Primary Care and the feasibility of establishing a routine monitoring system...
Separating within and between effects in family studies: an application to the study of blood pressure in childrenVera Mann
Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Stat Med 23:2745-56. 2004..The within- and between-families effects were not significantly different, p = 0.19, suggesting that fixed and pregnancy-specific factors have similar effects on childhood systolic blood pressure...- Retrospective comparative evaluation of the lasting impact of a community-based primary health care programme on under-5 mortality in villages around Jamkhed, IndiaVera Mann
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, England
Bull World Health Organ 88:727-36. 2010..To conduct the first rigorous evaluation of the long-term effect of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project on childhood mortality in rural Maharashtra... - The EPICS Trial: Enabling Parents to Increase Child Survival through the introduction of community-based health interventions in rural Guinea BissauVera Mann
Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
BMC Public Health 9:279. 2009..Effective Intervention plans to expand the project to a much larger region if there is good evidence after two and a half years that the project is generating a cost-effective, sustainable reduction in child mortality... - The STRIPES trial--support to rural India's public education systemAlex Eble
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Trials 11:10. 2010..In both intervention arms additional after-school instruction and learning materials will be offered to all eligible children and in one arm girls will also receive an additional 'kit' with a uniform and clothes... - Temporal trends (1977-2007) and ethnic inequity in child mortality in rural villages of southern Guinea BissauIla Fazzio
Effective Intervention, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, UK
BMC Public Health 11:683. 2011..We aimed to investigate temporal trends with emphasis on historical events and the effect of ethnicity, polygyny and distance to the health centre on child mortality... - Community health and medical provision: impact on neonates (the CHAMPION trial)Peter Boone
Effective Intervention, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, UK
BMC Pediatr 7:26. 2007..If successful, the trial is designed so that it should be possible to substantially scale up the project in regions with similarly high neonatal mortality throughout Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere... - Knowledge and reported practices of men and women on maternal and child health in rural Guinea Bissau: a cross sectional surveyRebecca King
Effective Intervention, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London, UK
BMC Public Health 10:319. 2010..The study also aimed to assess the effect of gender and ethnicity on knowledge and behaviour... - Statistical issues in life course epidemiologyBianca L de Stavola
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 163:84-96. 2006..Examples from two cohorts in the United Kingdom are used to illustrate alternative modeling strategies. The authors conclude that more than one analytical approach should be adopted to gain more insight into the underlying mechanisms... - Fetal, developmental, and parental influences on childhood systolic blood pressure in 600 sib pairs: the Uppsala Family studyDavid A Leon
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Circulation 112:3478-85. 2005..A study of within- and between-family associations of birth weight with blood pressure, which collected data on both parents, would address this gap in our knowledge... - Prenatal factors, childhood growth trajectories and age at menarcheIsabel dos Santos Silva
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 31:405-12. 2002..The mechanisms underlying this association are not clear, however, as birthweight is a predictor of body size in childhood, and a large body size is known to be associated with an early onset of menarche... - Morning cortisol does not mediate the association of size at birth with blood pressure in children born from full-term pregnanciesIlona Koupil
Stockholm University Karolinska Institute, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 62:661-6. 2005..We investigated whether morning salivary cortisol mediates the inverse association of birthweight with systolic blood pressure in children... - Genetic regulation of birth weight and fasting glucose by a common polymorphism in the islet cell promoter of the glucokinase geneMichael N Weedon
Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5AX, U K
Diabetes 54:576-81. 2005..This study establishes that common genetic variation, in addition to rare mutations and environmental factors, can affect both FPG and birth weight...