3 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Yeyi Zhu, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental ...

Background This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11–43) ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of persistent precarious employment (lasting 12+ months) on the health of working age adults, compared with more stable employment. Persistent precarity reflects a ...

Correspondence to Dr Jacques Pépin, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS, 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Qc J1H 5N4, Canada; ...

1 Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom Institute, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 2 Discipline of Public Health, ...

Professor Popay, Institute for Public Health Research and Policy University of Salford, 4th Floor, Humphrey Booth House, The Crescent, Salford M5 4QA (j.m.popay{at}salford.ac.uk) Atopic eczema is a ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Background: Frailty is a ...

Smoking as a risk factor for death by suicide has been a controversial area of inquiry. Over the last 20 years, there has been an expanding body of literature demonstrating that smokers have an ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...

Background Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies. Such policies are thought to disproportionately affect ...