Risk factors for depression. New evidence on selenium deficiency and depressive disorders.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the effect of selenium deficiency on depressive disorders with adjustment for possible confounders. Its importance among non-dietary and dietary risk factors for depression is discussed using empirical evidence.

Methods: A structural equation model was fitted using diagonally weighted least squares estimation with adjusted chi-square test statistics (WLSMV).

Adolescent Personality Risk Factors for Tobacco Smoking and Alcohol Misuse in Adult Men.

Social identity theory proposes that people define themselves in terms of the social groups they belong to or aspire to belong to. Tobacco smoking and alcohol use in men have been hypothesized to be symbolic of adult male status. The current study examines whether adolescent personality characteristics linked to masculinity and nonconformity are associated with tobacco smoking and alcohol misuse in men.

Risk factors for homelessness: A structural equation approach.

This study aims to assess the pathway relationships between adolescent adversities, adult addictive behaviours, divorce, conviction, long-standing unemployment, disability, and homelessness. A structural equation model was estimated using data on n  = 677 homeless men and n  = 651 housed men of the same age and educational distribution, living in Warsaw, Poland. Retrospective adolescent adversities were found to be significantly related to the occurrence of adult homelessness (p ≤ .

Gender gap in cancer prevention and mortality. A multidimensional analysis.

Background: During 2015 in Poland, male-to-female ratio in age-adjusted cancer mortality rate amounted to 1.83, which is close to that observed in 1990 (1.94) and considerably more than in 1965 (1.

Increasing deaths from colorectal cancer in Poland - Insights for optimising colorectal cancer screening in society and space.

Introduction And Objective: With respect to the increasing numbers of deaths due to colorectal cancer in Poland, the aim of the study was to investigate socio-demographic characteristics which influence colorectal cancer screening acceptance and to assess spatial variation of colorectal cancer mortality.

Material And Methods: An age-period-cohort model was estimated to assess mortality trends in colorectal cancer in Poland. A geographical analysis was performed by spatial regression.

High prostate cancer mortality in Poland. A spatial, temporal and structural analysis.

Introduction: This study investigates spatial distribution and future trends in prostate cancer mortality in Poland. Since detection of prostate cancer is based on patients’ requests (not an invitation system), hypothesis of self-selection of patients was also verified

Material And Methods: Age-period-cohort model was estimated to assess mortality trends. A spatial analysis was performed by Kulldorff’s and Moran’s tests.