Vol 11, No 1 (2014)

Table of Contents

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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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, Donella 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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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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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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Public Health and Medical Humanities History Corner

Archie’s beautiful adventure
Roberto Bucci, Vittoria Colamesta, Giuseppe La Torre
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