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 ...

8 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Background Mortality in Scotland is higher than in the rest ...

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 ...

1 Discipline of Emergency Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia 2 Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health, The University of Western Australia, ...

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 ...

1 Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway 2 Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway 3 Unit of Applied Clinical Research, Department of ...

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 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 ...

Correspondence to Hannah Hayoung Kim, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; hannahkim{at}g.harvard.edu Background ...

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 ...

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 ...