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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Stefan, dear Johan,
<p>Thank you very much for this, once again. I agree it's much
improved and flows much better with the focus on ADLs. Well
done!! <br>
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<p>To diminish overlap with previous comments, I focused on more
macro-level comments and suggestions for reductions - I think
Eur Journal Pub Health is at 3500 words, which means we need to
cut about 10-15% of the length, but this seems eminently doable.</p>
<p>To me the two sections in need of more work are the
Introduction and Discussion (Methods could be streamlined here
and there - made some suggestions - but nothing too major). For
the introduction, perhaps you could drop some of the lengthy
description of some findings that may be less relevant (e.g. the
static cohort studies) and strengthen the case for the focus on
gender and "place" (regions) as these are two of our main claims
for originality.</p>
<p>For the Discussion, I think the main question is how
speculative we can/want to be about the underlying drivers of
what we observe - particularly for the regional-level picture.
You could perhaps make it mostly about how our study
contradicts/supports existing literature (you have a paragraph
on this - I didn't find it so clear - that could be made the
"heart" of the discussion); with the regional differences as
something to be
researched further in the future, perhaps suggesting social
determinants of health as perhaps a good pathway for future
research (just a suggestion). If we want to be a bit speculative
about the regional differences/evolution, we definitely need to
quote some studies there, even if they are only national
studies, that could allow us to ground some of our informed
speculation. <br>
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<p>I went through the suppl material and left some minor comments
to improve the clarity of information here and there for grumpy
reviewers. Not sure I would show the unweighted graphs. I
understand and back the need to be transparent, but I think this
is perhaps too much information. Besides, weights might be a
point of discussion for purist grumpy reviewers - e.g. using
cross-sectional weights - and I think there might be one or
another difference with a naked eye in the unweighted results
so, maybe we should "not wake up sleeping dogs" (it's a German
expression)?<br>
</p>
<p>I'm happy to focus on one or another section with more detailed
comments/suggestions, text or literature. Just let me know what
could help you the most.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>All the above are just suggestions, feel free to dismiss them.
<br>
</p>
<p>It is a very nice article to read. Well done again!<br>
</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Ricardo<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/12/2020 16:27, Stefan Fors wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks a lot, Stefania! We’ll study the
comments and suggestions carefully and revise accordingly!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/Stefan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>För </b>Stefania Ilinca<br>
<b>Skickat:</b> den 14 december 2020 16:17<br>
<b>Till:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:futuregen@euro.centre.org">futuregen@euro.centre.org</a><br>
<b>Ämne:</b> Re: [Futuregen] Cohort paper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Dear Stefan and Johan, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Please find attached the paper with a few comments form my
side. It is shaping up very nicely and the flow has improved
so much with the focus on ADL trends and the reduction of
results included in the manuscript. I admit I did not even
look through the supplementary material - it is discouraging
once one notices there are 20 pages of results there! I also
did not focus on reducing words, rather I suggested a few
issues that should receive a bit more attention. Maybe we can
first get on paper all the ideas we think are important and
only then do a rewrite to reduce the word count. I am happy to
read carefully through the next version of the paper and make
suggestions for reducing the word count.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>My main comments revolve around making the introduction more
linear, re-organization of the discussion to mirror the order
of ideas in the introduction, and introducing a few references
that can be useful for the study. I also noted some
discrepancies with the figures presented in the text and those
in table 1 - please recheck. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Let me know if any of my comments are unclear and if I can
help strengthen one or the other argument with additional
literature or data sources.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Many thanks for what I am sure has been pretty intensive work
on the manuscript.
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<p>My best wishes to all, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Stefania<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV">Dear comrades,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please find enclosed the latest
incarnation of our ‘cohort paper’. I have rewritten the
manuscript (with help from Johan) based on your comments and
the comments we got at the seminar at KI. We have also added
a few huge tables to the supplementary material, that
includes all the estimates that make up the fugures,
including confidence intervals – so the reader don’t have to
rely on a visual interpretation of the data. We have tried
to accommodate as many of your comments as possible, but as
we are aiming to submit to European Journal of Public Health
– the space is very limited (we are now almost 400 words
over the limit, so we will have to do some editing of length
as well).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In your comments to the previous version,
many of you suggested that we should center the narrative on
the sex gap in disabilities. In the end, we decided to go in
the other direction and focus on the ‘health trend’
perspective (although not omitting the sex gap, of course).
The reason for this is that we felt that it was an easier
fit with the study. We’ve borrowed the analytical model from
the health trends literature – and we have not formally
tested the sex differences – so we felt it was more natural
to frame the paper as a more general health trend study.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyways, read it and let us know what you
think!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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