David Mant
Biographic Data
| ID | 330075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mant |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mant |
| SIGNATURE | MANT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘You can't stay away from your family’
BACKGROUND: Migration of African-trained health workers to countries with higher health care worker densities adds to the severe shortage of health personnel in many African countries. Policy initiatives to reduce migration levels are informed by many studies exploring the reasons for the original decision to migrate. In contrast, there is little evidence to inform policies designed to facilitate health workers returning home or providing other f…
Security and skills
BACKGROUND: Migration of health workers from Africa continues to undermine the universal provision of quality health care. South Africa is an epicentre for migration--it exports more health workers to high-income countries than any other African country and imports health workers from its lower-income neighbours to fill the gap. Although an inter-governmental agreement in 2003 reduced the very high numbers migrating from South Africa to the Unite…
The Role Familiarity With Science and Medicine Plays in Parents’ Decision Making About Enrolling a Child in Vaccine Research
Parental consent to children’s participation in vaccine research has resulted in the licensure of essential vaccines. Recruitment to this type of research is typically difficult, however, and many parents decline. In this study, the authors interviewed parents about their decision for or against enrolling their child in a vaccine study. The data analysis suggests that parents’ ability to evaluate a vaccine study depends on how attuned they are wi…
Mortality from heart failure in an English population, 1979–2003
Objective: It is widely held that there will be an epidemic of heart failure in Europe and North America as a result of increased survival from myocardial infarction and other coronary heart disease. The study objective was to discover if the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease has been accompanied by a rise in mortality from heart failure in the study population. Design: Analysis of database of mortality records including all certif…
Hormone replacement therapy
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of recruiting a cohort of women, including long term users of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), through computerised general practice prescribing records, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of users and non-user controls. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis of questionnaire data. SETTING--Subjects were recruited through 17 general practices in the Oxfordshire, south west…
Factors affecting response to an invitation to attend for a health check
OBJECTIVE--To describe the characteristics of general practice patients who fail to respond to an invitation to attend for a health check, in relation to demographic variables, risk factor status, health status, and attitudes to behaviour modification. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire before invitation to attend a health check and subsequent record of attendance. SETTING--Five urban general practices in Bedfordshire, UK. SUBJECTS--A total of 2678 pat…
Social class, marital status, and cancer of the uterine cervix in England and Wales, 1950-1983
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate whether trends in mortality from cancer of the cervix uteri by age, marital status, and social class are compatible with current beliefs about the epidemiology of the disease. DESIGN--Data on mortality from cancer of the cervix for single and married women by age and social class were obtained from the Registrar General's Decennial Supplements on occupational mortality for the years 1950-53, 1959-63, 19…
HPV and Cervical Cancer
Objective To investigate a method of minimally invasive surfactant therapy (MIST) to be used in spontaneously breathing preterm infants on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), evaluating the feasibility of the technique and the therapeutic benefit after MIST. Design Non-randomised feasibility study. Setting Tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. Patients and interventions Study subjects were preterm infants with respiratory distress suppor…
Myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in young women
The Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study has now followed 17,000 women, predominantly of childbearing age, for a total of more than 200,000 woman-years. The incidence of myocardial infarction and angina in women aged less than 50 years has been low: 0.03/1,000 woman-years at ages 25-34 rising to 0.67/1,000 woman-years at ages 45-49. However, the overall incidence in women who were smokers at entry to the study is more than three…
Cigarette smoking and benign breast disease
Hormone replacement therapy
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of recruiting a cohort of women, including long term users of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), through computerised general practice prescribing records, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of users and non-user controls. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis of questionnaire data. SETTING--Subjects were recruited through 17 general practices in the Oxfordshire, south west…
Mortality from heart failure in an English population, 1979–2003
Objective: It is widely held that there will be an epidemic of heart failure in Europe and North America as a result of increased survival from myocardial infarction and other coronary heart disease. The study objective was to discover if the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease has been accompanied by a rise in mortality from heart failure in the study population. Design: Analysis of database of mortality records including all certif…
Social class, marital status, and cancer of the uterine cervix in England and Wales, 1950-1983
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate whether trends in mortality from cancer of the cervix uteri by age, marital status, and social class are compatible with current beliefs about the epidemiology of the disease. DESIGN--Data on mortality from cancer of the cervix for single and married women by age and social class were obtained from the Registrar General's Decennial Supplements on occupational mortality for the years 1950-53, 1959-63, 19…
Factors affecting response to an invitation to attend for a health check
OBJECTIVE--To describe the characteristics of general practice patients who fail to respond to an invitation to attend for a health check, in relation to demographic variables, risk factor status, health status, and attitudes to behaviour modification. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire before invitation to attend a health check and subsequent record of attendance. SETTING--Five urban general practices in Bedfordshire, UK. SUBJECTS--A total of 2678 pat…
Myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in young women
The Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study has now followed 17,000 women, predominantly of childbearing age, for a total of more than 200,000 woman-years. The incidence of myocardial infarction and angina in women aged less than 50 years has been low: 0.03/1,000 woman-years at ages 25-34 rising to 0.67/1,000 woman-years at ages 45-49. However, the overall incidence in women who were smokers at entry to the study is more than three…
Cigarette smoking and benign breast disease
Cigarette smoking and benign breast disease
Myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in young women
The Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study has now followed 17,000 women, predominantly of childbearing age, for a total of more than 200,000 woman-years. The incidence of myocardial infarction and angina in women aged less than 50 years has been low: 0.03/1,000 woman-years at ages 25-34 rising to 0.67/1,000 woman-years at ages 45-49. However, the overall incidence in women who were smokers at entry to the study is more than three…
HPV and Cervical Cancer
Objective To investigate a method of minimally invasive surfactant therapy (MIST) to be used in spontaneously breathing preterm infants on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), evaluating the feasibility of the technique and the therapeutic benefit after MIST. Design Non-randomised feasibility study. Setting Tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. Patients and interventions Study subjects were preterm infants with respiratory distress suppor…
Social class, marital status, and cancer of the uterine cervix in England and Wales, 1950-1983
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate whether trends in mortality from cancer of the cervix uteri by age, marital status, and social class are compatible with current beliefs about the epidemiology of the disease. DESIGN--Data on mortality from cancer of the cervix for single and married women by age and social class were obtained from the Registrar General's Decennial Supplements on occupational mortality for the years 1950-53, 1959-63, 19…
Factors affecting response to an invitation to attend for a health check
OBJECTIVE--To describe the characteristics of general practice patients who fail to respond to an invitation to attend for a health check, in relation to demographic variables, risk factor status, health status, and attitudes to behaviour modification. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire before invitation to attend a health check and subsequent record of attendance. SETTING--Five urban general practices in Bedfordshire, UK. SUBJECTS--A total of 2678 pat…
Hormone replacement therapy
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of recruiting a cohort of women, including long term users of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), through computerised general practice prescribing records, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of users and non-user controls. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis of questionnaire data. SETTING--Subjects were recruited through 17 general practices in the Oxfordshire, south west…
Mortality from heart failure in an English population, 1979–2003
Objective: It is widely held that there will be an epidemic of heart failure in Europe and North America as a result of increased survival from myocardial infarction and other coronary heart disease. The study objective was to discover if the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease has been accompanied by a rise in mortality from heart failure in the study population. Design: Analysis of database of mortality records including all certif…
The Role Familiarity With Science and Medicine Plays in Parents’ Decision Making About Enrolling a Child in Vaccine Research
Parental consent to children’s participation in vaccine research has resulted in the licensure of essential vaccines. Recruitment to this type of research is typically difficult, however, and many parents decline. In this study, the authors interviewed parents about their decision for or against enrolling their child in a vaccine study. The data analysis suggests that parents’ ability to evaluate a vaccine study depends on how attuned they are wi…
Security and skills
BACKGROUND: Migration of health workers from Africa continues to undermine the universal provision of quality health care. South Africa is an epicentre for migration--it exports more health workers to high-income countries than any other African country and imports health workers from its lower-income neighbours to fill the gap. Although an inter-governmental agreement in 2003 reduced the very high numbers migrating from South Africa to the Unite…
‘You can't stay away from your family’
BACKGROUND: Migration of African-trained health workers to countries with higher health care worker densities adds to the severe shortage of health personnel in many African countries. Policy initiatives to reduce migration levels are informed by many studies exploring the reasons for the original decision to migrate. In contrast, there is little evidence to inform policies designed to facilitate health workers returning home or providing other f…
Medicine (10 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Cancer (2 works)