Background Falls can repeatedly occur as people age, which leads to injury, disability and mortality in older adults. Sleep ...
Background During preconception counselling, pregnant women who smoke are advised to quit smoking. While the adverse effects ...
Background Many studies have detected a negative relationship between income inequality and general measures of health. However, data limitations have prevented a full understanding of whose health is ...
1 Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Royal Free and UCL Medical School, ...
Background Concerns about loss of greenspace with urbanisation motivate much research on nature and health; however, contingency of greenspace-health associations on the character of community change ...
The world is increasingly shaped by powerful global forces, many of which have consequences for human health and the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health are increasingly ...
Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...
Correspondence to Professor Maigeng Zhou, National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 27 Nanwei Road, Xicheng ...
2 Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health and Social Care, London, UK 3 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, ...
Multimorbidity is of increasing concern for healthcare systems globally, particularly in the context of ageing population structures, such as in the European Union and the UK. Although there is ...
Correspondence to: Dr M Joffe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.joffe{at}imperial.ac.uk Health impact assessments look at the ...