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Commentary
In the last decades, Systems Biology (including cancer research) has been driven by technology, statistical modelling and bioinformatics. In this paper we try to bring biological and philosophical thinking ba...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:7
Published on: 7 June 2017
Analytic perspective
In matched-pair cohort studies with censored events, the hazard ratio (HR) may be of main interest. However, it is lesser known in epidemiologic literature that the partial maximum likelihood estimator of a co...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:6
Published on: 5 June 2017
Research article
Advances in healthcare have improved the survival of children with neurological disabilities (ND). Studies in the US have shown that children with ND use a substantial proportion of resources in children’s hos...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:5
Published on: 27 April 2017
Research article
Increasing availability of the Internet allows using only online data collection for more epidemiological studies. We compare response patterns in a population-based health survey using two survey designs: mix...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:4
Published on: 21 March 2017
Research article
Obtaining population-level estimates of the incidence and prevalence of dementia is challenging due to under-diagnosis and under-reporting. We investigated the feasibility of using multiple linked datasets and...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:3
Published on: 27 February 2017
Review
Epidemiology has contributed in many ways to identifying various risk factors for disease and to promoting population health. However, there is a continuing debate about the ability of epidemiology not only to...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:2
Published on: 10 February 2017
Research article
There are many examples of physiological processes that follow a circadian cycle and researchers are interested in alternative methods to illustrate and quantify this diurnal variation. Circadian blood pressur...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2017 14:1
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research article
Cluster surveys provide rapid but representative estimates of key nutrition indicators in humanitarian crises. For these surveys, an accurate estimate of the design effect is critical to calculate a sample siz...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:13
Published on: 7 December 2016
Research article
Nutritional surveillance remains generally weak and early warning systems are needed in areas with high burden of acute under-nutrition. In order to enhance insight into nutritional surveillance, a community-b...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:12
Published on: 15 November 2016
Research article
Electronic linkage of UK cohorts to routinely collected National Health Service (NHS) records provides virtually complete follow-up for cause-specific hospital admissions and deaths. The reliability of dementi...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:11
Published on: 28 October 2016
Research article
Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used technique for assigning causes to non-medically certified deaths using information gathered from a close caregiver. Both operational and cultural factors may cause delays i...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:10
Published on: 18 October 2016
Research article
It is well known that safe delivery in a health facility reduces the risks of maternal and infant mortality resulting from perinatal complications. What is less understood are the factors associated with safe ...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:9
Published on: 14 June 2016
Research article
Dichotomisation of continuous data has statistical drawbacks such as loss of power but may be useful in epidemiological research to define high risk individuals.
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:8
Published on: 7 June 2016
Research article
Wasting is a major public health issue throughout the developing world. Out of the 6.9 million estimated deaths among children under five annually, over 800,000 deaths (11.6 %) are attributed to wasting. Wasti...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:7
Published on: 4 May 2016
Research article
The issue of poor response rates to population surveys has existed for some decades, but few studies have explored methods to improve the response rate in follow-up population cohort studies.
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:6
Published on: 14 April 2016
Methodology
Multivariable confounder adjustment in comparative studies of newly marketed drugs can be limited by small numbers of exposed patients and even fewer outcomes. Disease risk scores (DRSs) developed in historica...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:5
Published on: 5 April 2016
Analytic Perspective
In 1974 a joint FAO/UNICEF/WHO Expert Committee met to develop methods for nutrition surveillance. There has been much interest and activity in this topic since then, however there is a lack of guidance for pr...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:4
Published on: 18 March 2016
Methodology
The emerging burden of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa threatens the gains made in health by the major international effort to combat infectious diseases. There are few data on distri...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:3
Published on: 1 February 2016
Review
The obesity epidemic has emerged over the past few decades and is thought to be a result of both genetic and environmental factors. A newly identified factor, the gut microbiota, which is a bacterial ecosystem...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:2
Published on: 11 January 2016
Research article
Childhood growth is a cornerstone of pediatric research. Statistical models need to consider individual trajectories to adequately describe growth outcomes. Specifically, well-defined longitudinal models are e...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2016 13:1
Published on: 7 January 2016
Methodology
The increasing availability of online maps, satellite imagery, and digital technology can ease common constraints of survey sampling in low- and middle-income countries. However, existing approaches require sp...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2015 12:20
Published on: 23 December 2015
Research article
Epidemiological analyses of aggregated data are often used to evaluate theoretical health effects of natural disasters. Such analyses are susceptible to confounding by unmeasured differences between the expos...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2015 12:19
Published on: 22 December 2015
Methodology
Epidemiologists have debated the appropriate time-scale for cohort survival studies; chronological age or time-on-study being two such time-scales. Importantly, assessment of risk factors may depend on the cho...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2015 12:18
Published on: 18 December 2015
Research article
A subgroup of individuals becomes entrenched in a “revolving door” involving corrections, health, and social welfare services. Little research has investigated the numbers of people that are in frequent contac...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2015 12:17
Published on: 18 December 2015
Methodology
China’s growing population of internal migrants has exceeded 236 million. Driven by rapid development and urbanization, this extreme population mobility creates opportunities for transmission of HIV and sexual...
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2015 12:16
Published on: 11 November 2015
