scholarly journals Survival patterns in teenagers and young adults with cancer in the United Kingdom: Comparisons with younger and older age groups

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (17) ◽  
pp. 2643-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Stark ◽  
David Bowen ◽  
Elaine Dunwoodie ◽  
Richard Feltbower ◽  
Rod Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Older Age ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults ◽  
Survival Patterns

POINT-COUNTERPOINT

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-102
Author(s):  
Richard H. Schwartz ◽  
John P. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
York City ◽  
Drugs Of Abuse ◽  
Designer Drug ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults

In the September 1992 issue of Pediatrics in Review in which the article on drugs of abuse (amphetamine and methamphetamine) appeared, Dr John Morgan failed to mention MDMA (3,4 methylenedioxymetham-phetamine), a substituted methamphetamine designer drug with hallucinogenic properties, known by its popular name "ecstasy" on XTC. MDMA is used with some frequency by college students (2.3% of college students took the drug in 1990). It is a prevalent drug of abuse in the United Kingdom, where it is ingested by teenagers and young adults who attend popular dance halls known as "The Rave." It is also a drug of growing importance among youth in New York City where The Rave has introduced.

Open-Source Personality Trait Norms for the United Kingdom and Ireland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conal Twomey ◽  
John A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Personality Measurement ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Many ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract. Most copyrighted personality inventories facilitate norm-referencing through illustrative tables, yet their application to the many fields relevant to personality measurement is constrained by the need for stakeholders to possess the requisite financial resources to access them. Using an IPIP-NEO-300 dataset from Johnson’s IPIP-NEO data repository, we created open-source norm tables for different age groups (14–17 years; 18–25 years; and 30+ years) within a combined standardization sample from the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland ( N = 18,591). The newly created tables are freely available online ( https://osf.io/tbmh5 ), and there is no need to ask for permission to modify them. We provide general instructions that can be used to create open-source personality trait norms for other countries, settings, and age groups, as well as gender-specific norms. There is great potential for these norms to be used in various settings and their open-source freedoms may encourage future collaborations and investigations.

Smoking trends among young adults in the United Kingdom

2000 ◽  
pp. 258-260
Author(s):  
L. Owen ◽  
K. Bolling
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Smoking Trends

The Recent Trend of Mortality in the United Kingdom

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
C.D. Daykin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom

ABSTRACTThis note continues a regular series on mortality rates in the United Kingdom. Mortality experienced in 1993 is shown by five-year age groups, and comparisons are made for broad age groups, on a standardised basis, with mortality in earlier years.

RE: “PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION USE AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN OLDER AGE: A QUASIEXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE FREE BUS PASS POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM”

2020 ◽  
Vol 189 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-623
Author(s):  
Tony Blakely ◽  
Anne Kavanagh ◽  
Rebecca Bentley ◽  
Dennis Petrie
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Older Age ◽  
The United Kingdom

Epidemiological shift in the prevalence of pertussis in Taiwan: implications for pertussis vaccination

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Chi Lin ◽  
Shu-Man Yao ◽  
Jer-Jea Yan ◽  
Ying-Yan Chen ◽  
Chuen-Sheue Chiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Pertussis Vaccine ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Acellular Pertussis Vaccine ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Surveillance Data ◽  
Waning Immunity ◽  
Low Incidence

In Taiwan, routine pertussis immunization has been implemented for more than 40 years and a low incidence of pertussis was maintained until an 80-fold increase in cases occurred in 1992. The unexpected increase emphasized the significance of pertussis. This study evaluated a total of 2452 reported cases of pertussis during 1993–2004 and surveillance data on incidence, age distribution and seasonality. The highest morbidity was in infants aged <1 year, and upward trends in the incidence of pertussis were significant for infants aged <1 year and adolescents aged 10–14 years. The highest mean number of cases was observed in August and upward trends were in colder months. This study indicates that the epidemiology of pertussis may have been changed by waning immunity in Taiwan. Increased surveillance activities, especially in older age groups, and additional booster doses of acellular pertussis vaccine for children aged 6–8 years and adolescents/young adults aged 15–20 years are necessary to control and prevent pertussis.

scholarly journals Climate change: reshaping mortality differences within the United Kingdom?

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Naqvi ◽  
M. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Older People ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mean Temperature ◽  
Potential Impact

AbstractOlder people are higher contributors to mortality excess and most sensitive to environmental influences, e.g. temperature. As the population ages, variability in temperature is liable to impact a large proportion of life insurance or pension policies in a portfolio. Climate change is projected to significantly affect future mean temperatures. Moreover, future changes in mean temperature are estimated to vary across different regions of the United Kingdom. Accordingly, the present paper investigates the potential impact of future mean temperature changes on older-age mortality in England & Wales and Scotland. The corresponding effect on older-age mortality differences between England & Wales and Scotland is also investigated.

scholarly journals The return of the historic influenza A H1N1 virus and its impact on the population of the United Kingdom

1982 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Chakraverty ◽  
P. Cunningham ◽  
M. S. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Antigenic Variation ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Influenza A H1n1 ◽  
Older Adult Population ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARYThe epidemiology in the United Kingdom of the influenza A H1N1 subtype which returned in 1977 after an absence of 20 years is described for the four winter seasons from 1977/8 to 1980/1. The age distribution of virus isolates and the evidence for antigenic variation is presented. The impact in the susceptible age groups year by year is shown by the change in the population with specific antibody. There was the expected increase of antibody in those under the age of 21 but also evidence for a significant amount of infection or re-infection in the older adult population.

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