Lesley Rushton
Biographic Data
| ID | 7802007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Rushton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushton |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Imperial College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8474-4637 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lessons Learned From Presumptive Condition Lists in Veteran Compensation Systems
Presumptive condition lists formally accept connections between military factors and veteran health conditions. An environmental scan of such lists and their evidentiary basis was conducted across four veterans' administrations to inform other administrations considering the development of such lists. Information on included conditions, qualifying military factors, and scientific processes was obtained through targeted internet searches and corre…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017
BackgroundThe Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk–outcome associations. With each annual GBD study, we update the GBD CRA to incorporate improved methods, new risks and risk–outcome pairs, and new data on risk exposure levels and risk–outcome associatio…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long time series, this study can monitor risk exposure trends critical to health surveillance and inform policy debates on the importance of addressing risks in context. METHODS: We used the comparative risk assessment framework dev…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013
Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013
BACKGROUND: Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reduction of child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, and to identify models of success. METHODS: We generated updated estimates of child mortality i…
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010
Disability-adjusted life years (Dalys) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010
P1-311 Lymphohematopoietic cancers and benzene
Introduction There are few quantitative studies on the effect of relatively low benzene concentrations on risks of specific lymphohematopoietic cancer subtypes. Three nested case-control studies among petroleum workers in Australia, Canada and the UK have been updated and pooled to provide greater precision. Methods To improve disease subtype classification, pathology records were obtained; two pathologists reviewed these and classified every cas…
O2-5.5 Estimation of the burden of occupational cancer in Great Britain
Introduction Prioritising control of occupationally-related cancers should be evidence based. We have estimated the current burden of cancer in Great Britain attributable to occupation for IARC group 1 and 2A carcinogens. Methods We calculated attributable fractions and numbers for mortality/incidence using risk estimates from published literature and national data sources to estimate proportions exposed. Results Cancer deaths attributable to occ…
P1-176 Bias estimation methods for the burden of occupational cancer
Introduction Bias occurs in particular when estimates are based on sparse or inadequate data. We have estimated the burden of cancer in Great Britain attributable to occupation using an attributable fraction (AF) methodology, and present an adaptation of Greenland's1 Monte-Carlo sensitivity analysis (MCSA) to account for bias uncertainty. Methods Sources of bias in burden estimation include using Levin's estimator with adjusted RR, unknown cancer…
P1-175 Predicting the future burden of occupational cancer
Introduction Interventions to reduce occupationally related cancers should be evidence based. We have developed a method for forecasting the future burden of occupational cancer given past and projected exposure trends and under targeted reductions in workplace exposure levels. Methods The method builds on an approach using attributable fractions (AFs) developed to estimate the current burden of occupational cancer. We project risk exposure perio…
Pesticide-related illness reported to and diagnosed in Primary Care
GP practices were diverse and well distributed throughout GB with similar symptom consulting patterns as in the Primary Care within the UK. Methods used in this study would not be feasible for a routine surveillance system for pesticide related illness. Incorporation of environmental health into Primary Care education and practice is needed
Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry
Lifestyle and occupation
Lifestyle surveys--the complete answer
STUDY OBJECTIVES: These were as follows: to study incompleteness of data, herein called item non-response, generated by a self completion questionnaire; to identify the characteristics of item non-responders and the types of questions liable to high item non-response rates; and to discuss possible reasons for item non-response. DESIGN: Item non-response patterns in 12,307 responders (62%) to a representative postal survey based on a stratified sa…
The use of family health services authority registers as a sampling frame in the UK
Accepted for publication March 1995 In epidemiological and social scientific studies the choice of an appropriate, accurate sampling frame listing eligible subjects is a meth odological decision which will influence the representativeness of the sample selected, and hence the generalisability of findings. The most widely used population sampling frame of adult individuals in the UK is the electoral roll.12 Telephone listings have become more popu…
Lifestyle surveys--the complete answer
STUDY OBJECTIVES: These were as follows: to study incompleteness of data, herein called item non-response, generated by a self completion questionnaire; to identify the characteristics of item non-responders and the types of questions liable to high item non-response rates; and to discuss possible reasons for item non-response. DESIGN: Item non-response patterns in 12,307 responders (62%) to a representative postal survey based on a stratified sa…
The use of family health services authority registers as a sampling frame in the UK
Accepted for publication March 1995 In epidemiological and social scientific studies the choice of an appropriate, accurate sampling frame listing eligible subjects is a meth odological decision which will influence the representativeness of the sample selected, and hence the generalisability of findings. The most widely used population sampling frame of adult individuals in the UK is the electoral roll.12 Telephone listings have become more popu…
Lifestyle surveys--the complete answer
STUDY OBJECTIVES: These were as follows: to study incompleteness of data, herein called item non-response, generated by a self completion questionnaire; to identify the characteristics of item non-responders and the types of questions liable to high item non-response rates; and to discuss possible reasons for item non-response. DESIGN: Item non-response patterns in 12,307 responders (62%) to a representative postal survey based on a stratified sa…
Lifestyle and occupation
Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry
Pesticide-related illness reported to and diagnosed in Primary Care
GP practices were diverse and well distributed throughout GB with similar symptom consulting patterns as in the Primary Care within the UK. Methods used in this study would not be feasible for a routine surveillance system for pesticide related illness. Incorporation of environmental health into Primary Care education and practice is needed
P1-311 Lymphohematopoietic cancers and benzene
Introduction There are few quantitative studies on the effect of relatively low benzene concentrations on risks of specific lymphohematopoietic cancer subtypes. Three nested case-control studies among petroleum workers in Australia, Canada and the UK have been updated and pooled to provide greater precision. Methods To improve disease subtype classification, pathology records were obtained; two pathologists reviewed these and classified every cas…
O2-5.5 Estimation of the burden of occupational cancer in Great Britain
Introduction Prioritising control of occupationally-related cancers should be evidence based. We have estimated the current burden of cancer in Great Britain attributable to occupation for IARC group 1 and 2A carcinogens. Methods We calculated attributable fractions and numbers for mortality/incidence using risk estimates from published literature and national data sources to estimate proportions exposed. Results Cancer deaths attributable to occ…
P1-176 Bias estimation methods for the burden of occupational cancer
Introduction Bias occurs in particular when estimates are based on sparse or inadequate data. We have estimated the burden of cancer in Great Britain attributable to occupation using an attributable fraction (AF) methodology, and present an adaptation of Greenland's1 Monte-Carlo sensitivity analysis (MCSA) to account for bias uncertainty. Methods Sources of bias in burden estimation include using Levin's estimator with adjusted RR, unknown cancer…
P1-175 Predicting the future burden of occupational cancer
Introduction Interventions to reduce occupationally related cancers should be evidence based. We have developed a method for forecasting the future burden of occupational cancer given past and projected exposure trends and under targeted reductions in workplace exposure levels. Methods The method builds on an approach using attributable fractions (AFs) developed to estimate the current burden of occupational cancer. We project risk exposure perio…
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010
Disability-adjusted life years (Dalys) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013
BACKGROUND: Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reduction of child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, and to identify models of success. METHODS: We generated updated estimates of child mortality i…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long time series, this study can monitor risk exposure trends critical to health surveillance and inform policy debates on the importance of addressing risks in context. METHODS: We used the comparative risk assessment framework dev…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017
BackgroundThe Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk–outcome associations. With each annual GBD study, we update the GBD CRA to incorporate improved methods, new risks and risk–outcome pairs, and new data on risk exposure levels and risk–outcome associatio…
Lessons Learned From Presumptive Condition Lists in Veteran Compensation Systems
Presumptive condition lists formally accept connections between military factors and veteran health conditions. An environmental scan of such lists and their evidentiary basis was conducted across four veterans' administrations to inform other administrations considering the development of such lists. Information on included conditions, qualifying military factors, and scientific processes was obtained through targeted internet searches and corre…
Medicine (15 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Population (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Burden of disease (4 works) · Confidence interval (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Disease (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works)