Background Both loneliness and mental health represent important public health themes with stable or even worsening ...

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To provide an international perspective on the impact of congenital anomalies on infant mortality from 1950 to 1994. DESIGN Population-based study based on data obtained from vital ...

Background Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience unintentional injuries and poor home environments. The aim of this study was to explore the home environment as a ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael Pluess, Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK ...

Prompted by my participation in the People's Climate March held in New York City on 21 September 2014, as part of the ‘Harvard Divest’ contingent, in this brief essay I reflect on the late 20th ...

Between about 1955 and 1970, some 100,000 Japanese were diagnosed as having subacute myelooptic neuropathy (SMON), a new disease characterized by abdominal and neurological manifestations, the former ...

Correspondence to Allison W Watts, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Ave, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454 USA; ...

Background Since 2008, use of food banks has risen sharply in the UK; however, evidence on the epidemiology of UK food insecurity is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory of ...

Background Standing is often classified as light-intensity physical activity, with potential health benefits compared with sitting. Standing is, however, rarely captured as an independent activity. To ...

Correspondence to Professor Young-Ho Khang, Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea; ...

1 Inter-disciplinary Research Centre in Health, Coventry University, Coventry, UK 2 Oxford Centre for Health Care Research and Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK 3 Sonning Common ...