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List of publications

HAPIEE Study

Novosibirsk - MONICA

Russian mortality study - indirect demography

Surveys of socioeconomic factors & self-rated health in Eastern Europe

Studies of CHD and risk factors in Czech Republic

Whitehall II Study

Health behaviours

Child health and environmental pollution

Reviews and commentaries

Reports / book chapters

Other topics

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAPIEE Study

WEBB EA, Kuh D, Pajak A, Kubinova R, Malyutina S, BOBAK M. Estimation of secular trends in adult height, and childhood socioeconomic circumstances in three Eastern European populations.Econ Hum Biol. 2008 Apr 4. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract

WEBB E, Kuh D, PEASEY A, Pajak A, Malyutina S, Kubinova R, Topor-Madry R, Denisova D, Capkova N, MARMOT M, BOBAK M. Childhood socioeconomic circumstances and adult height and leg length in central and eastern Europe.J Epidemiol Community Health. 2008 Apr;62(4):351-7. Abstract

Hubacek JA, Adamková V, Stavek P, Kubinova R, PEASEY A, PIKHART H, MARMOT M, BOBAK M. Apolipoprotein E Arg136 --> Cys mutation and hyperlipidemia in a large central European population sample. Clin Chim Acta. 2008 388(1-2):217-8. No abstract available.

PIKHART H, BOBAK M, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Kubínová R, MARMOT M. Obesity and education in three countries of the Central and Eastern Europe: the HAPIEE study.Cent Eur J Public Health. 2007 Dec;15(4):140-2. Abstract

Lundberg J, BOBAK M, Malyutina S, Kristenson M, PIKHART H. Adverse health effects of low levels of perceived control in Swedish and Russian community samples.BMC Public Health. 2007 Nov 2;7(147):314. Abstract

Dragano N, BOBAK M, Wege N, PEASEY A, Verde PE, Kubinova R, Weyers S, Moebus S, Möhlenkamp S, Stang A, Erbel R, Jöckel KH, Siegrist J, PIKHART H. Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk factors: a multilevel analysis of nine cities in the Czech Republic and Germany. BMC Public Health. 2007 21;7(147):255. Abstract

BOBAK M, Vojtisek P, PIKHART H, Krizova A, Kubinova R, Capkova N. Znepokojive nízká úspešnost kontroly hypertenze u diabetiku v ceské populaci. Low success in control of hypertension among diabetics in Czech population [in Czech]. Prakticky lekar

NICHOLSON A, PIKHART H, Pajak A, Malyutina S, Kubinova R, PEASEY A, Topor-Madry R, Nikitin Y, Capkova N, MARMOT M, BOBAK M. Socio-economic status over the life-course and depressive symptoms in men and women in Eastern Europe. J Affect Disord. 2008 105(1-3):125-36. Epub 2007 Jun 11. Abstract

PEASEY A, BOBAK M, Kubinova R, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Tamosiunas A, PIKHART H, NICHOLSON A, MARMOT M. Determinants of cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases in Central and Eastern Europe: rationale and design of the HAPIEE study. BMC Public Health. 2006 Oct 18;6:255. Abstract

BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Pajak A, Kubinova R, Malyutina S, Sebakova H, Topor-Madry R, Nikitin Y,MARMOT M. Depressive symptoms in urban population samples in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Br J Psychiatry. 2006 Apr;188:359-65. Abstract

BOBAK M, Vojtisek P, PIKHART H, Capkova N, Kubinova R. The influence of socio-demographic factors on prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension: a population study in seven Czech towns [in Czech]. Cor et Vasa.

PEASEY A, BOBAK M, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Kubinova R, PIKHART H, Kurilovitch S, Poledne R, MARMOT M. Do lipids contribute to the lack of cardio-protective effect of binge drinking: alcohol consumption and lipids in three eastern European countries. Alcohol Alcohol. 2005 Sep-Oct;40(5):431-5. Epub 2005 Jun 6. Abstract

BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Kubinova R, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Sebakova H, Topor-Madry R, Nikitin Y, Caan W, MARMOT M. The association between psychosocial characteristics at work and problem drinking: a cross-sectional study of men in three Eastern European urban populations.
Occup Environ Med. 2005 Aug;62(8):546-50. Abstract

BOBAK M, Kristenson M, PIKHART H, MARMOT M.Life span and disability: a cross sectional comparison of Russian and Swedish community based data.BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):767. Epub 2004 Sep 17. Abstract

PIKHART H, BOBAK M, Pajak A, Malyutina S, Kubinova R, Topor R, Sebakova H, Nikitin Y, MARMOT M. Psychosocial factors at work and depression in three countries of Central and Eastern Europe.Soc Sci Med. 2004 Apr;58(8):1475-82. Abstract

BOBAK M, Room R, PIKHART H, Kubinova R, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Kurilovitch S, Topor R, Nikitin Y, MARMOT M. Contribution of drinking patterns to differences in rates of alcohol related problems between three urban populations. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2004 Mar;58(3):238-42. Abstract

 

Novosibirsk - MONICA

Malyutina S, BOBAK M, Simonova G, Gafarov V, Nikitin Y, MARMOT M. Education, marital status, and total and cardiovascular mortality in Novosibirsk, Russia: a prospective cohort study. Ann Epidemiol. 2004 Apr;14(4):244-9. Abstract

Malyutina S, BOBAK M, Kurilovitch S, Nikitin Y, MARMOT M. Trends in alcohol intake by education and marital status in urban population in Russia between the mid 1980s and the mid 1990s. Alcohol Alcohol. 2004 Jan-Feb;39(1):64-9. Abstract

Malyutina S, BOBAK M, Kurilovitch S, Gafarov V, Simonova G, Nikitin Y, MARMOT M. Relation between heavy and binge drinking and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Novosibirsk, Russia: a prospective cohort study. Lancet. 2002 Nov 9;360(9344):1448-54. Abstract

 

 

Russian mortality study - indirect demography

Murphy M, BOBAK M, NICHOLSON A, Rose R, MARMOT M. The widening gap in mortality by educational level in the Russian Federation, 1980-2001. Am J Public Health. 2006 Jul;96(7):1293-9. Epub 2006 May 30. Abstract

NICHOLSON A, BOBAK M, Murphy M, Rose R, MARMOT M. Alcohol consumption and increased mortality in Russian men and women: a cohort study based on the mortality of relatives. Bull World Health Organ. 2005 Nov;83(11):812-9. Epub 2005 Nov 10. Abstract.

BOBAK M, Murphy M, Rose R, MARMOT M. Determinants of adult mortality in Russia: estimates from sibling data. Epidemiology. 2003 Sep;14(5):603-11. Abstract

BOBAK M, Murphy M, PIKHART H, Martikainen P, Rose R, MARMOT M. Mortality patterns in the Russian Federation: indirect technique using widowhood data. Bull World Health Organ. 2002;80(11):876-81. Abstract

 

Surveys of socioeconomic factors & self-rated health in Eastern Europe

NICHOLSON A, BOBAK M, Murphy M, Rose R, MARMOT M. Socio-economic influences on self-rated health in Russian men and women--a life course approach. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Dec;61(11):2345-54. Epub 2005 Sep 6. Abstract

BOBAK M, Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R, MARMOT M. Changes in smoking prevalence in Russia, 1996-2004. Tob Control. 2006 Apr;15(2):131-5. Abstract

PIKHART H, BOBAK M, Rose R, MARMOT M. Household items ownership and self-rated health. BioMed Central Public Health 2003; 3:38. Full text

PIKHART H. Social and psychosocial determinants of self-rated health in Central and Eastern Europe. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, USA 2002.

PIKHART H, BOBAK M, Siegrist J, Pajak A, Rywik S, Kyshegyi J, Gostautas A, Skodova Z, MARMOT M. Psychosocial work characteristics and self-rated health in four post-communist countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2001; 55: 624-630. Abstract Full text

BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Rose R, Hertzman C, MARMOT M.  Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: cross-sectional data from seven post-communist countries.  Soc. Sci. Med. 2000 51: 1343-1350.  Abstract

BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Hertzman C, Rose R, MARMOT M. Socioeconomic factors, perceived control  and self reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey. Social Science and Medicine 1998: 47: 269-279.   Abstract

 

 

Studies of CHD and risk factors in Czech Republic

BOBAK M, Skodova Z, Hertzman C, MARMOT M. Own education, current conditions, parental material circumstances, and the risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country. Journal of  Epidemiology and Community Health 2000; 54: 91-96.  Abstract Full text


BOBAK M, Skodova Z, MARMOT M.  Effect of beer drinking on risk of myocardial infarction.  A population based case-control study. British Medical Journal 2000; 320:1378-79.  Abstract Full text

BOBAK M, Hertzman C, Skodova Z, MARMOY M. Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk factors  in  the Czech  Republic.  Int. Journal of Epidemiology 1999; 52: 46-52.  Abstract

BOBAK M, Hense HW, Kark JD, Kuch B, Vojtisek P, Sinnreich R, Gostomczyk J, Bui M, von Eckardstein A, Junker R, Fobker M, Schulte H, Assmann G, MARMOT M. An ecological study of determinants of cardiovascular disease rates: a comparison of Czech, Bavarian and Israeli men.  International Journal of Epidemiology 1999; 28: 437-444.  Abstract

BOBAK M, Skodova Z, Vojtisek P, Brunner E, Hense H-W, MARMOT M.   Antioxidanty and kardiovaskularni onemocneni v ceske populaci (Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease in the Czech population) [in Czech].  Vnitrni lekarstvi 1999; 45: 353-358.  Abstract

Matejka J, BOBAK M, Vojtisek P, Franc P.  Kontrola hypertenze v Ceské cásti studie Pardubice-Augsburg (Hypertension control in the Czech part of the Pardubice-Augsburg Study) [in Czech] Vnitrní lékarství 1998; 44: 633-636.

BOBAK M, Hertzman C, Skodova Z, MARMOT M.  Association between psychosocial factors at work and nonfatal myocardial infarction in a population-based case control study in Czech men. Epidemiology 1998; 9: 43-47.  Abstract  

BOBAK M, Brunner E, Miller NJ, Skodova Z, MARMOT M.  Could antioxidants play a role in the high rates of coronary heart disease in the Czech Republic? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1998; 52:632-636.  Abstract

BOBAK M. Skodova Z, Pisa Z, Poledne R, MARMOT M.  Political changes and trends in cardiovascular risk factors in the Czech Republic 1985-1992. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1997; 51: 272-277.  Abstract

Skodova Z, Pisa Z, Poledne R, Berka L, Cicha Z, Emrova R, Hoke M, PIKHARTova J, Vojtisek P, Grafnetter D, Wiesner E, Hrdlickova K, Havlikova A, BOBAK M, Vorlicek J, Paclt M, Lanska V. Pokles umrtnosti na kardiovaskularni onemocneni v Ceske republice v obdobi 1984-1993 a jeho mozne priciny (Decrease in cardiovascular disease mortality in the Czech Republic 1984-1993 and its possible causes) [in Czech]. Casopis Lekaru Ceskych 1997; 136: 373-379. Abstract

Skodova Z, Pisa Z, Poledne R, Grafnetter D, Kaucka J, Cicha Z, PIKHARTova J, Berka L, Hoke M, Vojtisek P, Emrova R, Wiesner E, Valenta Z, BOBAK M, Paclt M.   Is the recent decrease in cholesterolemaemia in the Czech Republic convincing evidence? (Je nedavny pokles cholesterolemie v Ceske republice prukazny?) [in Czech] Casopis Lekaru Ceskych 1996; 135: 589-593.  Abstract

BOBAK M, Koupilova I, Prikazsky V, Kriz B. [Relation between socioeconomic factors and mortality in districts in the Czech Republic]. (Socioekonomické faktory a úmrtnost v okresech Ceské republiky v období 1989-1993) [in Czech] Casopis Lekaru ceskych 1996; 135: 753-757. Abstract

BOBAK M, Skodova Z, Pisa Z.  Relationship between education and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors. (Vztah mezi vzdelanim a prevalenci kardiovaskularnich rizikovych faktoru) [in Czech]. Casopis Lekaru Ceskych 1994;133:627-632. Abstract

BOBAK M, Feachem RGA. Health status in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.  Health Policy and Planning 1992; 7: 234-242.




Whitehall II Study

NICHOLSON A, White IR, Macfarlane P, Brunner E, MARMOT M.  Rose questionnaire angina in younger men and women: gender differences in the relationship to cardiovascular risk factors and other reported symptoms. J Clin Epidemiol. 1999; 52: 337-46. Abstract

Hemingway H, NICHOLSON A, Stafford M, Roberts R, MARMOT M. The impact of socioeconomic status on health functioning as assessed by the SF-36 questionnaire: the Whitehall II Study. Am J Public Health. 1997 Sep;87(9):1484-90. Abstract

Bosma H, MARMOT MG, Hemingway H, NICHOLSON AC, Brunner E, Stansfeld SA. Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in Whitehall II (prospective cohort) study. BMJ. 1997; 314:558-65. Abstract


 

Health behaviours

Perlman F, BOBAK M, Gilmore A, McKee M.Trends in the prevalence of smoking in Russia during the transition to a market economy.Tob Control. 2007 Oct;16(5):299-305. Abstract

BOBAK M, Skodova Z, MARMOT M. Beer and obesity: a cross-sectional study. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2003 Oct;57(10):1250-3. Abstract

PERLMAN F, BOBAK M, Steptoe A, Rose R, MARMOT M. Do health control beliefs predict behaviour in Russians? Prev Med. 2003 Aug;37(2):73-81. Abstract

BOBAK M. Relative and absolute gender gap in all-cause mortality in Europe and the contribution of smoking. Eur J Epidemiol. 2003;18(1):15-8. Abstract

BOBAK M, Jarvis MJ, Skodova Z, MARMOT M.  Smoke intake among smokers is higher in lower socioeconomic groups.  Tob Control. 2000 Sep;9(3):310-2. Abstract

BOBAK M, McKee M, Rose R, MARMOT M.  Alcohol consumption in a national sample of the Russian population.  Addiction 1999; 94: 857-866.  Abstract

McKee M, BOBAK M, Rose R, Chenet L, Leon DA.   Patterns of smoking in Russia. Tobacco Control 1998; 7: 22-26.  Abstract

Balabanova D, BOBAK M, McKee M.  Patterns of smoking in Bulgaria. Tobacco Control 1998; 7: 383-385.   Abstract

Gjonca A, BOBAK M. Albanian paradox: another case of the protective effect of Mediterranean lifestyle? Lancet 1997; 350: 1815-1817.  Abstract

Skodova Z, Pisa Z, Valenta Z, Berka L, Hoke M, Cicha Z, Pihartova J, Emrova R, Vojtisek P, Poledne R, Paclt M, BOBAK M, Vorlicek J, Wiesner E.  Changes in cigarette smoking in the adult population of six districts of the Czech Republic over the 1985-92 period.  Cor et Vasa 1996; 38: 11-17.

 

 

Child health and environmental pollution

BOBAK M, Richards M, Wadsworth M. Relation between children's height and outdoor air pollution from coal-burning sources in the British 1946 birth cohort.Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2004 Aug;77(6):383-6. Epub 2004 Jun 26. Abstract

Drachler Mde L, BOBAK M, Rodrigues L, Aertz DR, Leite JC, Danova J, Kriz B. The role of socioeconomic circumstances in differences in height of pre-school children within and between the Czech Republic and southern Brazil. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2002 Dec;10(4):135-41. Abstract

PIKHART H, BOBAK M, Gorynski P, Wojtyniak B, Danova J, Celko MA, Kriz B, Briggs D, Elliott P. Outdoor sulphur dioxide and respiratory symptoms in Czech and Polish school children: a small-area study (SAVIAH). Small-Area Variation in Air Pollution and Health.Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2001 Oct;74(8):574-8. Abstract

BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Koupilova I.  Maternal socio-economic characteristics and infant mortality from injuries in the Czech Republic 1989-1992.  Inj. Prev. 2000 6: 195-198.   Abstract  

Kriz P, BOBAK M, Kriz B.  Parental smoking, socioeconomic factors, and risk of invasive meningococcal disease in children: a population based case-control study.  Arch Dis Child. 2000 Aug;83(2):117-21. Abstract Full text  

PIKHART H, BOBAK M, Kriz B, Danova J, Celko M, Prikazsky P, Pryl K, Briggs D, Elliott P.  Outdoor air concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide and prevalence of wheezing in school children.  A small area Czech SAVIAH study. Epidemiology 2000; 11: 153-160.  Abstract  

BOBAK M. Outdoor air pollution, low birth weight and prematurity. Environmental Health Perspectives 2000; 108: 173-176.  Abstract

BOBAK M, Leon DA.  The effects of air pollution on infant mortality appear specific for respiratory causes in postneonatal period. Epidemiology 1999; 10: 666-670.   Abstract

Koupilova I, Holcik J, BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Vagero D, Leon DA. Socioekonomicke rozdily v porodni hmotnosti, delce gestace a ponovorozenecke umrtnosti I: Ceska republika a Svedsko (Socioeconomic differences in birthweight, gestational age and postneonatal mortality. I. Czech Republic and Sweden) [in Czech]. Cs Pediat 1999; 54: 155-161.

Koupilova I, Holcik J, BOBAK M, Leon DA.  Socioekonomicke rozdily v porodni hmotnosti, delce gestace, novorozenecke a ponovorozenecke umrtnosti II: Ceska republika po roce 1989 (Socioeconomic differences in birth weight, gestational age, neonatal and postneonatal mortality II: Czech Republic after 1989) [in Czech].  Cs Pediat 1999; 54: 385-390.  

BOBAK M, Leon DA.  Pregnancy outcomes and outdoor levels of air pollution: an ecological study in districts of the Czech Republic 1986-88.  Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1999; 56: 539-543.  Abstract

Koupilova I, BOBAK M, Holcik J, PIKHART H, Leon DA.  Increasing social variation in birth outcomes in the Czech Republic after 1989. American Journal of Public Health 1998; 88: 1343-47.  Abstract

Fischer P, Kriz B, Martuzzi M, Wojtyniak B, Lebret E, van Reeuwijk H, PIKHART H, Briggs D, Gorynski P, Elliot P.  Risk factors indoors and prevalences of childhood respiratory health in four countries in Western and Central Europe.  Indoor Air 1998; 8: 244-254.

Koupilova I, Vagero D, Leon DA, PIKHART H, Prikazsky V, Hocik J, BOBAK M. Social variation in size at birth in the Czech Republic and Sweden, 1989-1991.  Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1998, 12: 7-24.  Abstract

PIKHART H, Prikazsky V,  BOBAK M, Kriz B, Danova J,  Pryl K, Pretel J.  Association between ambient air concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and respiratory symptoms in children in  Prague, Czech Republic.  Preliminary results from the Czech part of the SAVIAH Study.  Small Area Variation in Air Pollution and Health.  Central Europan Journal of Public Health 1997; 5: 82-85.  Abstract

BOBAK M.  Cold exposure and winter morality in Europe [Implication for air pollution studies] [Letter].   Lancet 1997; 350: 591.  

BOBAK M, PIKHART H, Koupilova I.   Neonatal mortality of low birthweight babies is increased in mothers with higher education [Letter] British Medical Journal 1997; 315: 889.

Krzyzanowski M, BOBAK M. East-West mortality gap and environment [Letter].  Lancet 1997; 350: 1255.  

BOBAK M, Roberts A.  Heterogeneity in air pollution effects is related to average temperature [Letter].  British Medical Journal 1997; 315: 1161.

BOBAK M.  The environmental hypothesis.  [Commentary to: Rural environmental health status in Central Europe.]  International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 1996; 2: 7-10.

BOBAK M, Feachem RGA.  Air pollution and mortality in central and eastern Europe.  An estimate of the impact.  European Journal of Public Health 1995; 5: 82-86.

BOBAK M, Moldan B.  Epidemiology and health effects of environmental pollution. (Epidemiologie a  vliv znecisteni prostredi na zdravotni stav) [in Czech] Vesmir 1995; 74: 245-247.

BOBAK M, Koupilova I, Williams HC, Leon DA, Danova J, Kriz B. Prevalence atopickych onemocneni u predskolnich deti v peti okresech s ruznym stupnem znecisteni ovzdusi. (Prevalence of atopic diseases in children in 5 Czech towns with different levels of air pollution) [in Czech] Prakticky lekar 1995; 75: 480-486.

BOBAK M, Kriz B, Danova J. Socio-economic factors and growth of preschool children in nurseries in one Prague district: results of a pilot study. Central European Journal of Public Health 1994; 2: 9-12. Abstract  

BOBAK M, Kriz B, Leon DA, Danova J, MARMOT MG. Socioeconomic factors and height of preschool children in the Czech Republic. American Journal of Public Health 1994; 84: 1167-1170.  Abstract

BOBAK M.  Fatal consequences of environmental pollution: what is the evidence? (Fatalni dusledky znecisteni prostredi: existuji dukazy?) [in Czech] Vesmir 1993; 72: 456-457.

Editorial.  Environmental pollution: it kills trees, but does it kill people?   Lancet 1992; 340: 821-2.

BOBAK M, Leon DA.   Air pollution and infant mortality in the Czech Republic, 1986-88.   Lancet 1992; 340: 1010-1014. Abstract


 

Reviews and commentaries

MARMOT M,  BOBAK, M.  International comparators and poverty and health in Europe.  BMJ. 2000 Nov 4, 321 (7269): 1124-8.  Full text

BOBAK M, MARMOT M.  Alcohol and mortality in Russia: Is it different from elsewhere?  Annals of Epidemiology 1999; 9: 335-338.  Abstract

BOBAK M, MARMOT M. East-west health divide and its potential explanations: proposed research agenda. British Medical Journal 1996; 312: 421-425.  Abstract Full text

McKee M, Normand C, BOBAK M, Nazim A.  Epidemiology in central and eastern Europe. [Letter]  Lancet 1992; 430: 308.

 

Reports / book chapters

BOBAK M.  Health and mortality trends in countries with economies in transition. Background paper for the 31st Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. New York: United Nations Population Division 1998.

BOBAK M, Blane D, MARMOT M.  Social determinants of health: Their relevance in the European context.  Background paper for the WHO Verona Initiative. WHO European Regional Office, 1998.

BOBAK M.  Social determinants of health across Europe.  FORUM Trends in Experimental and Clinical Medicine 1998; 8: 27-35.

Stephens C, McGranahan G, BOBAK M, Fletcher A, Leonardi G.   Urban environment and human health.  In: World Resources 1996-97.  New York: Oxford University Press for the World Resources Institute, 1996: pp. 31-55.

BOBAK M, MARMOT M. East-west health divide and potential explanations.  In: Hertzman C, Kelly S, BOBAK M, eds. East-West mortality gap in Europe. Environmental and non-environmental determinants. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996: 17-44.  

BOBAK M.  Determinants of the East-West life-expectancy gap: contribution of lifestyle and behaviour.  Evidence from the MONICA Study.  In: Hertzman C, Kelly S, BOBAK M, eds. East-West mortality gap in Europe.  Environmental and non-environmental determinants. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996: 99-108.  

BOBAK M.   Contribution of socioeconomic and psychosocial environment.   Evidence from studies within central and eastern Europe. In: Hertzman C, Kelly S, BOBAK M, eds.   East-West mortality gap in Europe.  Environmental and non-environmental determinants.   Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996: 121-131.

MARMOT M, BOBAK M, Davey Smith G.  Explanations for social inequalities in health.   In: Amick III. B, Levine S, Tarlov AR, Chapman Walsh D (Eds).  Society and health.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: pp. 172-210.

BOBAK M, MARMOT M.  East-west health divide and its potential explanations.  In: World Health Organization Report on European Health Policy. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1995.

Blane D, BOBAK M, Judge K.   Unity and diversity in European health. Society and Health, Issue No. 2, Summer 1995. London: International Centre for Health and Society and King's Fund Policy Institute, London, 1995.


Other topics

 

BOBROVA N, Sarang A, Stuikyte R, Lezhentsev K.Obstacles in provision of anti-retroviral treatment to drug users in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a regional overview.Int J Drug Policy. 2007 Aug;18(4):313-8. Epub 2007 Mar 21. Abstract

BOBROVA N, Alcorn R, Rhodes T, Rughnikov I, Neifeld E, Power R.Injection drug users' perceptions of drug treatment services and attitudes toward substitution therapy: a qualitative study in three Russian cities.J Subst Abuse Treat. 2007 Dec;33(4):373-8. Epub 2007 May 17. Abstract

Platt L, Wall M, Rhodes T, Judd A, Hickman M, Johnston LG, Renton A, BOBROVA N, Sarang A.Methods to recruit hard-to-reach groups: comparing two chain referral sampling methods of recruiting injecting drug users across nine studies in Russia and Estonia.J Urban Health. 2006 Nov;83(6 Suppl):i39-53. Abstract

Platt L, BOBROVA N, Rhodes T, Uusküla A, Parry JV, Rüütel K, Talu A, Abel K, Rajaleid K, Judd A.High HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in Estonia: implications for understanding the risk environment.AIDS. 2006 Oct 24;20(16):2120-3. Abstract

BOBROVA N, Rhodes T, Power R, Alcorn R, Neifeld E, Krasiukov N, Latyshevskaia N, Maksimova S.Barriers to accessing drug treatment in Russia: a qualitative study among injecting drug users in two cities.Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006 Apr;82 Suppl 1:S57-63. Abstract

Hanova P, Pavelka K, Dostal C, Holcatova I, PIKHART H.Epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and gout in two regions of the Czech Republic in a descriptive population-based survey in 2002-2003.Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2006 Sep-Oct;24(5):499-507. Abstract

Blazeby JM, Avery K, Sprangers M, PIKHART H, Fayers P, Donovan J.Health-related quality of life measurement in randomized clinical trials in surgical oncology.J Clin Oncol. 2006 Jul 1;24(19):3178-86. Review. Abstract

Rhodes T, Platt L, Maximova S, Koshkina E, Latishevskaya N, Hickman M, Renton A, BOBROVA N, McDonald T, Parry JV.Prevalence of HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis among injecting drug users in Russia: a multi-city study.Addiction. 2006 Feb;101(2):252-66. Abstract

BOBROVA N, Sergeev O, Grechukhina T, Kapiga S.Social-cognitive predictors of consistent condom use among young people in Moscow.Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2005 Dec;37(4):174-8. Abstract

Saleem S, BOBAK M. Women's autonomy, education and contraception use in Pakistan: a national study. Reprod Health. 2005 Oct 21;2:8. Abstract

Dzurova D, PIKHART H. Down syndrome, paternal age and education: comparison of California and the Czech Republic. BMC Public Health. 2005 Jun 17;5(1):69. Abstract

PEASEY AE, Ruiz-Palacios GM, Quigley M, Newsholme W, Martinez J, Rosales G, Jiang X, Blumenthal UJ. Seroepidemiology and Risk Factors for Sporadic Norovirus/Mexico Strain. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2004 189(11). Abstract

Jauregui Camargo L, Ruiz-Palacios G, Guerrero Almeida L, Nino Oberto S, PEASEY A, Sierra Madero J. [Evaluation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in a cohort of patients with HIV infection in Mexico] Rev Invest Clin. 2003 Jan-Feb;55(1):10-7. Spanish. Abstract

BOBAK M, Gjonca A.The seasonality of live birth is strongly influenced by socio-demographic factors.Hum Reprod. 2001 Jul;16(7):1512-7. Abstract

Malyutina S, BOBAK M, Kurilovitch S, Ryizova E, Nikitin Y, MARMOT M.Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in Novosibirsk, Russia, 1985-95.Addiction. 2001 Jul;96(7):987-95. Abstract

Blumenthal UJ, Mara DD, PEASEY A, Ruiz-Palacios G, Stott R.Guidelines for the microbiological quality of treated wastewater used in agriculture: recommendations for revising WHO guidelines.Bull World Health Organ. 2000;78(9):1104-16. Review. Abstract

McKee M, BOBAK M, Kalina K, Bojan F, Enachescu D: Health sector reform in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.   Croatian Medical Journal 1994; 35: 238-244.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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