Background: During the last few years, a high incidence of sick leave due to depression has been reported, resulting in important economic and social impacts. Only a limited number of studies ...

Background: Ethnic/racial inequalities in access to and quality of healthcare have been repeatedly documented in the USA. Although there is some evidence of inequalities in England, research is not so ...

This essay argues that work, and the socioeconomic class polarities it creates, plays a fundamental role in determining inequalities in the distribution of morbidity and mortality. This is by means of ...

Correspondence to Miss Yashvee Dunneram, Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; fsyd{at}leeds.ac.uk Background Age at natural ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.

Correspondence to Professor Liancheng Zhao, Division of Prevention and Community Health, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking ...

Background South Asians in the UK have a 5-fold increased risk of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), a much lower mean age at diagnosis and experience relatively higher diabetes-related morbidity and ...

Background It is unclear which weather parameters effect the motion-sensor-based measurement of physical activity in terms of walking duration in older people. Methods Between March 2009 and April ...

Correspondence to Dr Paul SF Yip, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention and Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, ...

Background ‘Adverse childhood experiences’ (ACEs) are associated with increased risk of negative outcomes in later life: ACEs have consequently become a policy priority in many countries. Despite ACEs ...

Background Based on existing studies, there is no conclusive evidence as to whether and why paternal age matters for birth outcomes. Methods We used Finnish population registers on 106 652 children ...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is frequently adopted for creating socioeconomic proxies in order to investigate the independent effects of wealth on disease status. The guidelines and methods for ...