Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...

The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality ...

3 WHO Collaborating Centre for Housing Standards and Health, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK Correspondence to Dr Michael Keall, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and ...

Correspondence to Dr Daisy Fancourt, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; d.fancourt{at}ucl.ac.uk Background There is growing research into the ...

NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), Utrecht, The Netherlands Background: As a result of increasing urbanisation, people face the prospect of living in environments with few ...

Correspondence to Dr Phil Edwards, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Phil.Edwards{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Many local ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

Background Child mental health has become an increasingly important issue in the UK, especially in the context of significant welfare reforms. Universal Credit (UC) has introduced substantial changes ...

Background Interpersonal violence is a major public health concern with alcohol use a known risk factor. Despite alcohol taxation being an effective policy to reduce consumption; Hong Kong, contrary ...

Background We investigated the potential impacts of child poverty (CP) reduction scenarios on population health and health inequalities in England between 2024 and 2033. All data relevant to the study ...

Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Division of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan Background: The aim of this study was to ...