Vol. 11 No. 1 (2014)

Editorial

A quick guide to cancer epidemiology

Paolo Boffetta , Stefania Boccia, Carlo La Vecchia
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Original articles

Harmful alcohol habits did not explain the social gradient of sickness absence in Swedish women and men

Ann-Charlotte M Mardby, Kristina EM Holmgren, Gunnel KE Hensing
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Improving quality of care for cancer pain: an Italian five-year project

Maria Teresa Greco, Anna Roberto, Oscar Corli, Giovanni Apolone
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Health impact assessment of major collective events: an overview of the available experiences

Roberta Siliquini, Marika Giacometti, Silvia Scoffone, Cristina Angela Viglianchino, Marco Bo, Veronica Galis
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Environmental lithium exposure in the north of Chile - Tissue exposure indices

Leonardo T. Figueroa , Sara Ann Barton, William J. Schull, Allan H. Young , Yumi M. Kamiya, John A. Hoskins, Edward B. Ilgren
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The relationship between sleep time and self-rated health: an analysis based on Italian survey data

Guido Citoni
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Reliability of the telephone-administered International Physical Activity Questionnaire in an Italian pilot sample

Alice Mannocci, Claudio Bontempi , Vittoria Colamesta, Filippo Ferretti, Guglielmo Giraldi, Annamaria Lombardi, Angela Meggiolaro , Anna Miani, Silvia Miccoli, Annalisa Rosso, Rosella Saulle, Brigid Unim, Antonio Boccia, Giuseppe La Torre
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Two-stage re-estimation adaptive design: a simulation study

Francesca Galli, Luigi Mariani
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Evaluating the effect of organization and context on technical efficiency: a second-stage DEA analysis of Italian hospitals

Domenica Matranga , Filippa Bono, Alessandra Casuccio, Alberto Firenze, Laura Marsala, Rosa Giaimo, Francesca Sapienza, Francesco Vitale
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Systematic reviews and meta- and pooled analyses

A systematic literature review on the policies and economic evaluation of organ transplantations in EU

Georgia Tritaki , Paolo Di Giannantonio, Stefania Boccia
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Microbiological quality of surface waters of Rome and it’s County from 1890 to 2010: a systematic review of Roman Hygiene School

Caterina Palazzo, Riccardo Montacutelli , Rosella Del Vecchio, Angelo Giuseppe Solimini , Lucia Marinelli, Anna Maria Lombardi, Maria De Giusti, Gaetano Maria Fara, Antonio Boccia
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Statistical Methods

Description of survival data extended to the case of competing risks: a teaching approach based on frequency tables

Davide Paolo Bernasconi , Laura Antolini
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Biostatistics

Comparison of multi-state Markov models for cancer progression with different procedures for parameters estimation. An application to breast cancer

Leonardo Ventura , Giulia Carreras, Donatella Puliti, Eugenio Paci, Marco Zappa, Guido Miccinesi
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Integrating clinicians’ opinion in the Bayesian meta-analysis of observational studies: the case of risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people

Silvia Deandrea, Eva Negri, Fabrizio Ruggeri
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Public Health and Medical Humanities History Corner

Archie’s beautiful adventure

Roberto Bucci , Vittoria Colamesta, Giuseppe La Torre
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Editorial

Original articles

Systematic reviews and meta- and pooled analyses

Statistical Methods

Biostatistics

Public Health and Medical Humanities History Corner

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