Table of contents

Society for Social Medicine abstracts

• Cancer and geography: 001 Is there a US prostate cancer belt? (16 November, 2010) Free

  G D Datta, J Chen, A Kosheleva, M M Glymour
• Cancer and geography: 002 Uptake of breast screening: where you live also matters (16 November, 2010) Free

  H Kinnear, M Rosato, D O'Reilly
• Cancer and geography: 003 Demographic analyses of primary bone cancer in 0–49 year olds in Great Britain, 1980–2005: a small-area approach (16 November, 2010) Free

  K Blakey, R G Feltbower, R C Parslow, P W James, B Gómez Pozo, C Stiller, T J Vincent, P Norman, P A McKinney, M F Murphy, A W Craft, R J Q McNally
• Cancer and geography: 004 Fluoride and bone cancer: is there a link? Small-area analyses of primary bone cancer in 0–49-year-olds in Great Britain, 1980–2005 (16 November, 2010) Free

  K Blakey, R G Feltbower, R C Parslow, P W James, B Gómez Pozo, C Stiller, T J Vincent, P Norman, P A McKinney, M F Murphy, A W Craft, R J Q McNally
• Coronary heart disease: 005 Trends in coronary heart disease mortality in England by socio-economic circumstances, 1982–2006 (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Bajekal, S Scholes, M O'Flaherty, R Raine, P Norman, S Capewell
• Coronary heart disease: 006 Coronary heart disease mortality in The Netherlands from 1972 to 2007 (16 November, 2010) Free

  I Vaartjes, M O'Flaherty, M Bots, S Capewell
• Coronary heart disease: 007 Associations between marital status and survival after a first acute myocardial infarction in Scotland, 1988–2004 (16 November, 2010) Free

  C A Davies, A H Leyland
• Coronary heart disease: 008 Causal effects of COX-2 selective inhibitors relative to non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on gastrointestinal bleeding and acute myocardial infarction: an instrumental variable analysis (16 November, 2010) Free

  N M Davies, G Davey-Smith, F Windmeijer, R M Martin
• Childhood and mental health: 009 Chronic illness and emotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties in Irish children (16 November, 2010) Free

  U Reulbach, T O'Dowd, C McCrory, R Layte
• Childhood and mental health: 010 Parental separation and psychological distress in early adulthood: has the effect reduced over time? Evidence from two British birth cohort studies (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Lacey, M Bartley, H Pikhart, N Cable, M Stafford
• Childhood and mental health: 011 Gender differences in the effect of breast feeding on adult psychological well-being (16 November, 2010) Free

  N Cable, M Bartley, A McMunn, Y Kelly
• Childhood and mental health: 012 Breast feeding and behavioural development in children: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  K Heikkilä, A Sacker, Y Kelly, M J Renfrew, M A Quigley
• (Un)employment and health: 013 Has your work worked you too hard: an examination of work history, present functional limitations and reduced activities of living in a cohort of the Irish general population (16 November, 2010) Free

  V J C Mc Carthy, I J Perry, B A Greiner
• (Un)employment and health: 014 How do musculoskeletal pain, avoidant coping and sickness absence relate to each other? (16 November, 2010) Free

  U Christensen, C Ørsted Hougaard, K Thielen, E Nygaard, R Lund
• (Un)employment and health: 015 Pathways to work? Insights from a systematic review of the UK's return to work initiatives for disabled and chronically ill people (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Clayton, R Gosling, S Povall, K Misso, C Bambra, M Whitehead
• (Un)employment and health: 016 Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929–1937 (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Stuckler, C Meissner, P Fishback, S Basu, M McKee
• Diabetes: 017 Socio-economic status, incidence of type 2 diabetes and relative mortality in Scotland 2001–2007 (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Wild, for the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group
• Diabetes: 018 Forecasting diabetes prevalence using a simple model: England and Wales 1993–2006 (16 November, 2010) Free

  M O'Flaherty, J Critchley, S Wild, N Unwin, S Capewell, for the MEDCHAMPS Project
• Diabetes: 019 Ethnic differences in type 2 diabetes risk markers in children in the UK are not explained by socio-economic status: Child Heart and Health Study in England (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Thomas, C Nightingale, A Rudnicka, C Owen, N Sattar, D Cook, P Whincup
• Diabetes: 020 Incidence rate trends in childhood type 1 diabetes in Yorkshire, 1978–2007: effects of ethnicity and age at diagnosis (16 November, 2010) Free

  K Harron, P A McKinney, R G Feltbower, C R Stephenson, H J Bodansky, P Norman, R C Parslow
• Mental health: 021 Risk of overdose mortality during the initial 2 weeks after entering or re-entering methadone treatment in Scotland: retrospective cohort study (16 November, 2010) Free

  G Cousins, C Teljeur, N Motterlini, C McCowan, T Fahey, B D Dimitrov
• Mental health: 022 Health in small places: deriving and validating estimates of common mental disorders at the lower super output areas using microsimulation procedures (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Smith, M Riva
• Mental health: 023 Prevalence of self-harm and help-seeking behaviours among young people in Northern Ireland (16 November, 2010) Free

  M McCann, D Schubotz, C McCartan, P McCrystall
• Mental health: 024 Prospective cohort study of unemployment and clinical depression in Europe and Chile: the Predict Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  B J Jefferis, I Nazareth, L Marston, the Predict Core Study Group, M King
• Mental health: 025 The incidence and repetition of hospital-treated deliberate self-harm in Ireland (16 November, 2010) Free

  I J Perry, P Corcoran, A P Fitzgerald, H S Keeley, U Reulbach, E Arensman
• Births cohorts: 026 The all Ireland traveller birth cohort study: overcoming recruitment challenges to estimate birth parameters (16 November, 2010) Free

  N A Hamid, S Abdalla, J Turner, B Quirke, R Niccharthaigh, C Kelleher, P Fitzpatrick, for the All Ireland Traveller Health Study Group
• Births cohorts: 027 Birth characteristics and early-life social characteristics predict unequal educational outcomes: consistency across Swedish cohorts born 1915–1929 and 1973–1980 (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Goodman, M D Gisselmann, I Koupil
• Births cohorts: 028 Birth size differences between white and Pakistani-origin infants by generation: results from the Born in Bradford Cohort Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  J West, D A Lawlor, L Fairley, J Wright, for the Born in Bradford Research Group
• Births cohorts: 029 Does a heavy baby become a strong child? Grip strength at 4 years in relation to birthweight (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Dodds, C Macdonald-Wallis, T Kapasi, A Aihie-Sayer, S Robinson, K Godfrey, C Cooper, N Harvey, H Inskip, the SWS Study Team
• Births cohorts: 030 The effect of missing data on the relationship between lifecourse socio-economic position and verbal cognitive ability at older ages (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Landy, R Hardy, J Head, M Richards
• Socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk: 031 Socio-economic patterning of the trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors in Scotland: Scottish Health Surveys 1995 to 2008 (16 November, 2010) Free

  J W Hotchkiss, C A Davies, L Gray, C Bromley, S Capewell, A H Leyland
• Socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk: 032 Relative importance of smoking, physical activity and screen-based entertainment in explaining socio-economic inequalities in cardiovascular disease risk (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Roth, E Stamatakis
• Socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk: 033 Socio-economic trends in cardiovascular risk factors in England, 1994–2008 (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Scholes, M Bajekal, R Raine, M O'Flaherty, S Capewell
• Socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk: 034 Association of neighbourhood socio-economic status and individual socio-economic status with cardiovascular risk factors in an Eastern German population — The CARLA Study 2002–2006 (16 November, 2010) Free

  K H Greiser, D Tiller, O Kuss, A Kluttig, B Schumann, K Werdan, J Haerting
• Socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk: 035 Have socio-economic differences in coronary risk factors changed over 20 years? Results from a population-based study of men between 1978–1980 and 1998–2000 (16 November, 2010) Free

  S E Ramsay, P H Whincu, S L Hardoon, M C Thomas, R W Morris, S G Wannamethee
• Cancer survival: 036 Socio-economic inequalities in cancer survival in England after the NHS cancer plan (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Ellis, B Rachet, C Maringe, M P Coleman
• Cancer survival: 037 Lung cancer incidence and survival in ethnic groups in South-East England (16 November, 2010) Free

  R H Jack, E A Davies, H Møller
• Cancer survival: 038 Survival from childhood and young adult cancer in the north of England, 1968–2005 (16 November, 2010) Free

  N O Basta, P W James, B Gomez-Pozo, A W Craft, R J Q McNally
• Cancer survival: 039 Regional disparities in cancer survival following the NHS National Cancer Plan for England: an analysis by cancer network (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Walters, M Quaresma, B Rachet, D Forman, E Gordon, M P Coleman
• Cancer survival: 040 Early and mid-adulthood BMI in relation to later cancer mortality: over 80 years of follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Health Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Gray, I-M Lee, H D Sesso, G D Batty
• Epidemiology: 041 Childhood residential stability and health status in early adulthood and midlife (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Brown, D O'Reilly, P J Boyle, S Macintyre, M Benzeval, A H Leyland
• Epidemiology: 042 Lifecourse predictors of adult parenchymal breast tissue density: results from the Newcastle Thousand Families Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  M S Pearce, P W G Tennant, T Pollard, L Mclean, B Kaye, L Parker
• Epidemiology: 043 Adjusting misclassification of outcome in case-control studies (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Gilbert, R M Martin, J A Lane, D E Neal, F Hamdy, J Donovan, C Metcalfe
• Epidemiology: 044 Population heterogeneity in midlife trajectories of blood pressure (16 November, 2010) Free

  A K Wills, D A Lawlor, G Muniz, F Matthews, D Kuh, R Hardy
• Epidemiology:

  045 Predicting risk of stroke following TIA: a systematic review of the validation of ABCD² clinical prediction rule

  (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Galvin, C Geraghty, N Motterlini, B D Dimitrov, T Fahey
• Obesity: 046 Association between birthweight and obesity in adult females (16 November, 2010) Free

  T Y O Yang, B J Cairns, V Beral
• Obesity: 047 Is the recent rise in type 2 diabetes mellitus incidence from 1984 to 2007 explained by the trend in increasing body mass index? Evidence from a prospective study of British men (16 November, 2010) Free

  S L Hardoon, R W Morris, M C Thomas, S G Wannamethee, L T Lennon, P H Whincup
• Obesity: 048 Changes in waist circumference and BMI in adolescents in England from 1977/1987 to 2005–2007 (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Mindell, H Dinsdale, C Ridler
• Obesity: 049 The reversal of the social gradient of obesity among women in Egypt: an analysis of trends using multiple cross sectional surveys 1995–2008 (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Aitsi-Selmi, M Marmot
• Policy: 050 News media coverage of NICE's decisions on new health technologies (16 November, 2010) Free

  H Chauhan, B Dhesi, N Patel, A Uppal, J Mohammed, A Ahmad, W Greenheld, Y-F Chen
• Policy: 051 A policy effectiveness-feasibility loop? Promoting the use of evidence to support the development of healthy public policy (16 November, 2010) Free

  N Unwin, K Bennett, S Capewell, J Critchley, F Fouad, A Husseini, M O'Flaherty, W Maziak, A Mataria, P Phillimore, H B Romdhane, B Unal, S Zaman
• Policy: 052 Systematic review: the use of research evidence by public health policy-makers (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Orton, F Lloyd-Williams, D Taylor-Robinson, M O'Flaherty, S Capewell
• Policy: 053 Protection and public health: population evidence from the EU, 1980–2003 (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Stuckler, S Basu, M McKee
• Ethnicity: 054 Another Hispanic paradox? The health benefits of Hispanic communities for non-Hispanic mothers and infant (16 November, 2010) Free

  R J Shaw, K E Pickett
• Ethnicity: 055 Comparison of distributions of common indicators of socio-economic position by ethnicity and migration: preliminary findings from the Born in Bradford Birth Cohort Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Fairley, N Small, D A Lawlor, J Wright
• Ethnicity: 056 Socio-demographic, health status, psycho-social and lifestyle predictors of self-rated health in the all Ireland Traveller Health Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Whelan, P Fitzpatrick, S Abdalla, F Cronin, A Drummond, L Daly, K Frazier, N A Hamid, C Kelly, C McGorrian, R G Moore, R NicCharthaigh, B O'Shea, D O'Mahony, B Quirke, A Staines, D Staines, M R Sweeney, J Turner, C C Kelleher
• Ethnicity: 057 All Ireland Traveller Health Study: increasing gap in mortality between traveller and general populations in the Republic of Ireland over two decades (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Abdalla, B Quirke, L Daly, P Fitzpatrick, C Kelleher
• Pregnancy and/or smoking: 058 Just look for an ashtray: pragmatic factors associated with smoking relapse postpartum (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Prady, K Keirnan, K Bloor, K Pickett
• Pregnancy and/or smoking: 059 Maternal and paternal smoking during pregnancy and trajectories of growth and adiposity in the offspring (16 November, 2010) Free

  L D Howe, A Matijasevich, K Tilling, D A Lawlor
• Pregnancy and/or smoking: 060 An analysis of the effect of intrauterine growth retardation on spirometric lung function measures of 8-year-old children (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Kotecha, W J Watkins, J Heron, J Henderson, F D Dunstan, S Kotecha
• Pregnancy and/or smoking: 061 The effects of pregnancy planning, time to conception and art on expressive language ability at 3 years (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Carson, Y Kelly, J J Kurinczuk, A Sacker, M Redshaw, M A Quigley
• Provision of services: 062 Abolition of prescription co-payments in Wales: an observational study on dispensing rates (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Cohen, F Alam, F Dunstan, S Myles, D Hughes, P Routledge
• Provision of services: 063 Population ageing in Scotland: an analysis of the implications for healthcare expenditure using the Renfrew/Paisley study (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Geue, P Lorgelly, J Lewsey, A Briggs, C Hart
• Provision of services: 064 Gender differences in admission to care homes for older people: maybe men really do not care (16 November, 2010) Free

  M McCann, D O'Reilly
• Provision of services: 065 Utility of electronic patient records for evaluating stroke secondary prevention in primary care (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Dregan, A M Toschke, C D Wolfe, A Rudd, M Ashworth, M C Gulliford, for the eCRT Research Team
• Food policy: 066 Estimating the UK cardiovascular mortality reduction expected with different food policy options (16 November, 2010) Free

  G Flores Mateo, M O'Flaherty, F Lloyd-Williams, K Nnoaham, M Rayner, S Capewell
• Food policy: 067 Food insecurity, well-being and inequalities in diet in UK women (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Baird, W Lawrence, M Jarman, C Black, H Inskip, C Cooper, M Barker, the Southampton Initiative for Health
• Food policy: 068 Systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions to improve fruit and vegetable intake (16 November, 2010) Free

  C E L Evans, D C Greenwood, J E Cade
• Physical activity: 069 Longitudinal association between early life adversity and physical activity at age 36 years (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Gaysina, R Cooper, D Kuh, G Mishra
• Physical activity: 070 Physical activity across adulthood and physical capability in mid-life: findings from a British birth cohort study (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Cooper, G Mishra, D Kuh
• Physical activity: 071 Different effects of body mass index and physical activity on the risk of ankle, wrist and hip fractures in postmenopausal women (16 November, 2010) Free

  M E G Armstrong, E A Spencer, B J Cairns, V Beral, for the Million Women Study Collaborators
• Adolescence: 072 Understanding social and cultural influences on the relationships and sexual experiences of young British Pakistanis in London: is there unmet sexual health need? (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Griffiths, A Prost, G J Hart
• Adolescence: 073 Variations in the use of publicly funded oral care in Northern Ireland: results from an analysis of adolescents in the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Telford, L Murray, C O'Neill
• Adolescence: 074 Who thinks teenagers are a problem? Cross-sectional evidence on perceptions of anti-social behaviour, health and place (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Egan
• Alcohol: 075 Gamma-glutamyltransferase as a predictor for alcohol- and non-alcohol-related cancer incidence (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Strohmaier, W Borena, A Strasak, G Goebel, M Edlinger, G Diem, H Concin, C Kelleher, H Ulmer
• Alcohol: 076 Binge drinking in midlife and the risk of developing depression during 24 years of follow-up (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Bell, A Britton, M Shipley
• Alcohol: 077 Alcohol use among Russian men: the association between audit score and self- and proxy-reported drinking behaviours (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Cook, B De Stavola, D Leon
• Cancer incidence: 078 Incidence rates and survival trends of cancer in 0–29-year-olds by ethnic group in Yorkshire, UK (16 November, 2010) Free

  M van Laar, P A McKinney, R C Parslow, A Glaser, S E Kinsey, I J Lewis, S V Picton, M Richards, G Shenton, D Stark, P Norman, R G Feltbower
• Cancer incidence: 079 Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer in Great Britain, 1976–2005: age–period–cohort analysis (16 November, 2010) Free

  R J Q McNally, K Blakey, P W James, B Gomez Pozo, N O Basta, J Hale
• Cancer incidence: 080 Sleep duration and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis (16 November, 2010) Free

  X Wang, B J Cairns, R C Travis
• Plenary: 081 Predictors of survival in children born with Down syndrome (16 November, 2010) Free

  P W G Tennant, M S Pearce, M Bythell, J Rankin
• Plenary: 082 Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour: longitudinal evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  A McMunn, Y Kelly, N Cable, M Bartley
• Plenary: 083 It is not “just deprivation”: why do equally deprived UK cities experience different health outcomes? (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Walsh, N Bendel, R Jones, P Hanlon
• Coronary heart disease: P01 Is knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors enough to bring about health promoting behaviour in students? (16 November, 2010) Free

  B P Jones
• Coronary heart disease: P02 Risk factor and treatment contributions to the coronary heart disease mortality decline in a low risk Mediterranean population: Spain 1988–2005 (16 November, 2010) Free

  G F Mateo, M Grau, M O'Flaherty, R Ramos, R Elosua, C V Fors, J Marrugat, S Capewell
• Coronary heart disease: P03 Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in Northern Ireland between 1987 and 2007 (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Hughes, F Kee, K Bennett, M O'Flaherty, J Critchley, S Capewell
• Coronary heart disease: P04 Age- and gender-specific risk of death after first hospital admission for heart failure (16 November, 2010) Free

  I Vaartjes, A W Hoes, J B Reitsma, A de Bruin, D E Grobbee, A Mosterd, Bots
• Diabetes: P05 Exploring the impact of the quality and outcomes framework on the quality of diabetes care and health care inequalities in England (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Akanuwe, E Goyder, R O'Hara, S Julious
• Diabetes: P06 The epidemiology of type 1 diabetes in children from Northeast England (16 November, 2010) Free

  R J Q McNally, S Court, P W James, R Pollock, K Blakey, M Begon, T D Cheetham
• Diabetes: P07 Improving the quality of diabetes care: exploring the perspectives of general practitioners in Ireland (16 November, 2010) Free

  S McHugh, M O'Mullane, I J Perry, C P Bradley
• Cancer: P08 Cancer of oesophagus or gastricus—new assessment of technology of endosonography: findings (16 November, 2010) Free

  I Russell, S Attwood, H Barr, R Tudor Edwards, A Gliddon, D Ingledew, K Park, D Russell, S T Yeo, R Whitaker
• Cancer: P09 The association of weight gain during adulthood with prostate cancer incidence and survival: the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study-2 cohort, Norway (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Chamberlain, P Romundstad, L Vatten, D Gunnell, R M Martin
• Cancer: P10 Factors predicting patients' intention to join cancer support groups and their perceptions of the most useful group formats (16 November, 2010) Free

  G Grande, C Missing, J Arnott
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P11 Increased risk of fetal loss and infant death in obese women (16 November, 2010) Free

  P W G Tennant, J Rankin, R Bell
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P12 Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring bone mass at age 9 years (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Macdonald-Wallis, J H Tobias, G Davey Smith, D A Lawlor
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P13 Association of prenatal and postnatal smoking and alcohol consumption on birth weight in the white British population in Bradford: preliminary findings from the born in Bradford study (16 November, 2010) Free

  E Petherick, R Parslow, P McKinney, D Tufnell, D Leon, Pauline Raynor, D Lawlor, J Wright
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P14 Interventions to increase the early initiation of antenatal care in socially disadvantaged and vulnerable women: a systematic review (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Oakley, R Gray, J J Kurinczuk, P Brocklehurst, J Hollowell
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P15 Effect of training doctors in communication skills on Syrian women's satisfaction during labour: a stepped wedge cluster randomise trial (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Kanaan, H Bashour, A Abdulsalam, M Kharouf, S Cheikha, M Tabbaa
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P16 Quantifying the risk of deprivation on preterm birth in UK maternity units (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Taylor-Robinson, U Agarwal, M J Platt, P Diggle, B Yoxall, Z Alfirevic
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P17 Birth size differences between white and Pakistani origin infants by generation: results from the born in Bradford cohort study (16 November, 2010) Free

  J West, D A Lawlor, L Fairley, J Wright, for the Born in Bradford Research Group
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P18 Child maltreatment co-occurrence and associations with household dysfunction: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Denholm, C Power, C Thomas, L Li
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P19 Socioeconomic disparities in trajectories of adiposity across childhood (16 November, 2010) Free

  L D Howe, K Tilling, B Galobardes, G Davey Smith, A R Ness, D A Lawlor
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P20 Description of dietary intakes of acrylamide in the born in Bradford birth cohort study (16 November, 2010) Free

  S J Hepworth, L K Fraser, E Petherick, V J Burley, J Cade, T de Kok, S van Breda, S A Kyrtopoulos, M Botsivali, J Kleinjans, P A McKinney
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P21 Influence of life-course socio-economic position on pain interference in a prospective cohort study of older adults (16 November, 2010) Free

  R J Lacey, J Belcher, P R Croft
• Pregnancy/Early life/Birth cohorts/Health trajectories: P22 Childhood socioeconomic position and adult smoking: are childhood cognitive ability, psychosocial adjustment and parental involvement important? (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Lacey, N Cable, M Stafford, M Bartley, H Pikhart
• Children/Adolescence: P23 Patterns of antiretroviral therapy in a European study of HIV-infected children and adolescents (16 November, 2010) Free

  N M Alam, M Cortina-Borja, C Thorne
• Children/Adolescence: P24 A cluster-randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a hand washing intervention in reducing infection-related absence in primary schools: insights from an embedded process evaluation (16 November, 2010) Free

  C R Chittleborough, R Campbell, A L Nicholson, S Gunn
• Children/Adolescence: P25 Antibiotic prescribing in Irish children receiving free medical care (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Keogh, U Reulbach, N Motterlini, K Bennett, T Fahey
• Older people: P26 Interventions to improve prescribing quality in care homes: a systematic review (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Loganathan, S Singh, Alex Bottle, B D Franklin, A Majeed
• Older people: P27 Older adults with cancer—are those who live alone at the end of life a disadvantaged group? A qualitative study (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Cooper, J Addington-Hall, A Arthur, G Grande, S Payne, J Seymour, B Hanratty
• Older people: P28 Patterns of dietary supplement use among older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire cohort study (16 November, 2010) Free

  H J Denison, S M Robinson, K A Jameson, H E Syddall, H J Martin, E M Dennison, C Cooper, A Aihie Sayer
• Older people: P29 Out of control? Experiences of transitions between care settings at the end of life for older adults with heart failure: a qualitative study (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Holmes, J Addington-Hall, G Grande, S Payne, J Seymour, B Hanratty
• Older people: P30 Validity and reliability of two indicators of socioeconomic position in a population survey of older adults (16 November, 2010) Free

  R J Lacey, J Belcher, P R Croft
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P31 Social capital and health behaviour (16 November, 2010) Free

  T Nieminen, T Martelin, S Koskinen, R Prättälä, E Alanen, M T Hyyppä
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P32 Using evidence to prioritise areas for public health actions for tackling childhood overweight (16 November, 2010) Free

  G McNeill, G Osei-Assibey, S Dick, J Macdiarmid, S Semple, J Reilly, A Ellaway, H Cowie
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P33 Towards a smoke free ministry of health in Italy (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Spizzichino, D Galeone, L Pagliari, S Mele
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P34 Defining a target profile for promoting smoking cessation in Italy (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Bietta, G Ferrante, V Minardi, L Spizzichino, S Vasselli
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P35 Objective and subjective method of physical activity measurement in a cross-section of English adults: health survey for England 2008 (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Chaudhury, E Stamatakis, M Roth, J Mindell
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P36 Distribution of physical activity amenities in Scotland by small area measures of deprivation and urbanicity (16 November, 2010) Free

  K E Lamb, A Ellaway, N S Ferguson, Y Wang, D Ogilvie
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P37 Area deprivation, ethnic density and fast food outlets, supermarkets and physical activity structures in England (16 November, 2010) Free

  O R Molaodi, S Harding, A H Leyland, A Ellaway, A Kearns
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P38 The impact of urban renewal on engagement in physical activity in a socio-economically disadvantaged population: a qualitative evaluation (16 November, 2010) Free

  R F Hunter, M A Tully, C Cleland, M E Cupples, F Kee, L Prior, M Donnelly
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P39 Healthy eating for children in early years settings: a systematic review of current guidance at local and national levels (16 November, 2010) Free

  K S Bristow, M Mwatsama, S Capewell, F Lloyd-Williams
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P40 Local food environments and dietary quality (16 November, 2010) Free

  R Layte, J Harrington, E Sexton, I J Perry, S Lyons
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P41 Young children's food in day care settings: a qualitative study of preschool nutrition policy and practice (16 November, 2010) Free

  K S Bristow, S Capewell, F Lloyd-Williams
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P42 The impact of a catering initiative in determining food choices and salt intake in the public sector (16 November, 2010) Free

  F Geaney, J Harrington, I J Perry
• Health behaviours/risk factors (obesity, smoking, physical activity, food): P43 Dietary salt intake in Irish adults (16 November, 2010) Free

  G Browne, M Loughrey, J Harrington, J Lutomski, T Fitzgerald, I Perry
• Ethnicity: P44 The influence of acculturation on ethnic differences in obesity in England (16 November, 2010) Free

  N R Smith, Y J Kelly, J Y Nazroo
• Ethnicity: P45 Regional comparison of socioeconomic and environmental profiles of families with pregnant women in the All Ireland Traveller Health Study (16 November, 2010) Free

  N A Hamid, S Abdalla, J Turner, B Quirke, R Niccharthaigh, C Kelleher, P Fitzpatrick, for the All Ireland Traveller Health Study group
• Ethnicity: P46 Ethnic differences in pace of growth between birth and 5 years: results from the millennium cohort study (16 November, 2010) Free

  E Lenguerrand, S Harding
• Ethnicity: P47 Country of birth of mother and rates of preterm births and low birth weight in England and Wales of babies of African and Caribbean ethnicity (16 November, 2010) Free

  P Datta-Nemdharry, A Macfarlane, N Dattani
• Ethnicity: P48 Modifying health promotion interventions for ethnic minority groups: systematic overview of guidelines and reviews (16 November, 2010) Free

  E Davidson, J J Liu, U Yousuf, R Bhopal, M Johnson, M White, G Netto, M Deverill, A Sheikh
• Ethnicity: P49 Modifying health promotion interventions for ethnic minority groups: systematic review of empirical evidence (16 November, 2010) Free

  J J Liu, E Davidson, R Bhopal, M Johnson, M White, M Deverill, G Netto, A Sheikh
• Ethnicity: P50 “Pushing against the hill”: a qualitative study of Irish traveller health in the 21st century (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Turner, R NicChárthaigh, B Quirke, J Kilroe, N A Hamid, C Kelly, C C Kelleher, R G Moore, for the All Ireland Traveller Health Study group
• Health services/Policy: P51 Surviving intensive care: a systematic review of health care resource use after hospital discharge (16 November, 2010) Free

  N I Lone, M Seretny, K M Rowan, T S Walsh, S H Wild, G D Murray
• Health services/Policy: P52 Predictors of emergency department attendance rates in small area populations (16 November, 2010) Free

  G Rudge, S Fillingham, K Sidhu, M Mohammed
• Health services/Policy: P53 Mortality after hospital admission clearly varies between atherosclerotic diseases located at different vascular beds (16 November, 2010) Free

  I Vaartjes, D E Grobbee, Bots
• Health services/Policy: P54 Might financial cuts drive NHS decision-making “downstream”? A qualitative study of factors affecting public health decision-making (16 November, 2010) Free

  L Orton, F Lloyd-Williams, D Taylor-Robinson, M O'Flaherty, S Capewell
• Health services/Policy: P55 The impact of neo-liberal “political attack” on health: the case of the “Scottish effect” (16 November, 2010) Free

  C Collins, G McCartney
• Area effects: P56 Does area regeneration improve residents' health and well-being? (16 November, 2010) Free

  D Archibald
• Area effects: P57 Persistent regional variation in treatment of hypertension (16 November, 2010) Free

  J Mindell, N Shelton, M Roth, M Chaudhury, E Falaschetti
• Area effects: P58 The death of social fragmentation: a secondary analysis of health survey data (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Maguire, D O'Reilly
• Area effects: P59 Residential histories and contemporary mortality geography: using data linkage to develop a data set describing mobility between birth and death (16 November, 2010) Free

  H Tunstall, K E Pickett, D Dorling
• Health inequalities: P60 “It's like the service that was never there”: a qualitative longitudinal study of lay health trainer services in the North East of England (16 November, 2010) Free

  S Visram, C Clarke, M White
• Health inequalities: P61 Could disagreement between doctors and patients on evaluating patient's health contribute to worsening health inequalities? The INTERMEDE study (16 November, 2010) Free

  M Kelly-Irving, A Afrite, J Pascal, C Cases, P Lombrail, T Lang, for the INTERMEDE group
• Health inequalities: P62 Improving health equity via the social determinants of health in the EU (16 November, 2010) Free

  T Lavin, O Metcalfe
• Health inequalities: P63 Mandated attendance at parenting workshops improves women's healthcare knowledge but may widen health inequities in low and middle income countries (16 November, 2010) Free

  I Forde, T Chandola, M G Marmot, O Attanasio
• Health inequalities: P64 Social determinants of disability among the immigrant population in Chile (16 November, 2010) Free

  B Cabieses, H Tunstall, K E Pickett
• Methods and miscellaneous: P65 A new index to assess the impact of collinearity in epidemiological research (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Woolston, Y-K Tu, P D Baxter, M S Gilthorpe
• Methods and miscellaneous: P66 Opt out as an acceptable method of obtaining consent in medical research (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Vellinga, M Cormican, B Hanahoe, K Bennett, A W Murphy
• Methods and miscellaneous: P67 The associations of serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D and ionised calcium with lung function and allergen skin prick tests in adolescents and adults: findings from a cross-sectional study using the US Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) (16 November, 2010) Free

  A M Tolppanen, D Williams, J Henderson, D A Lawlor
• Methods and miscellaneous: P68 The prevalence of eye disease in Norfolk and Waveney (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Ighomereho, N Steel, M Bachmann
• Methods and miscellaneous: P69 How to stop drug users dying from an overdose: a systematic review of treatment and prevention interventions in the community (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Evans, H Snooks, D Russell, C Brown, A Nair, C Moore, A Lewis
• Methods and miscellaneous: P70 How can patients and carers be involved in research to improve care? Developing and evaluating a model of involvement (16 November, 2010) Free

  A Evans, H Snooks, David Rea, Service User Steering Group members