UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess age ...

Background 2015 saw the largest annual spike of mortality rates in England in almost 50 years. We examine whether these changes in mortality rates are associated with an indicator of poor functioning ...

6 National School of Public Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7 Laboratory of Health and Environment Education, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil Background There is increased interest ...

The concept of “healthy public policy” has had distant roots—perhaps one of the earliest acknowledgments was by an aristocrat in pre-revolutionary France, speaking of the poor people of Paris, “It is ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the associations of individual and area-based socioeconomic indicators with cardiovascular disease risk factors and mortality. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: The towns ...

2 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA 3 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA ...

Background Childhood head injury has been associated with the development of behavioural and psychological problems. This study examined the relationship between head injury in young childhood and ...

6 Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany 7 IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for ...

Background Lower-quality employment, characterised by excessive or part-time hours, irregular schedules and inadequate earnings, is a key social determinant of health among adults. Research examining ...

Environmental Epidemiology Study Group, Laboratory of Experimental Air Pollution, University of São Paulo Faculty of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil Methods: The sample data were collected between ...

2 Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, UK Background Public sector austerity measures in many high-income countries mean that public health budgets are reducing year on ...