Background Research has shown that workers in non-standard (eg, temporary and part-time) employment experience poorer health ...

Kim et al 1 provide rigorous quasi-experimental evidence that Korea’s 2014 Basic Pension expansion was associated with sustained reductions in suicide mortality among older women. Their work advances ...

Background Unexplained deaths in infancy comprise ‘sudden infant death syndrome’ (SIDS) and deaths without ascertained cause. They are typically sleep-related, perhaps triggered by unsafe sleep ...

Correspondence to Dr Hiroyuki Shimada, Department of Preventive Gerontology, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan; ...

Objectives: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs’ responses; describe patients help-seeking pathways; and consider how these ...

5 Infostructure Development Division, Centre for Surveillance Coordination, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 6 Research and Technology Division, Centre for Surveillance Coordination, ...

Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in ...

Correspondence to Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen 1014, Denmark; ...

Background Research has linked food insecurity to mental health problems, though little is known about this relationship among Canadian youth. We investigate the association between food insecurity ...

Objective: Recent studies suggest an association between the contextual attributes of neighbourhoods and the health status of residents. However, there has been a scarcity of studies that have ...

Dr Silcocks, Trent Institute for Health Services Research, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH (p.b.silcocks{at}nottingham.ac.uk) OBJECTIVE To investigate the sampling ...

Department of Community Health and Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St Louis, USA Correspondence to: Dr R C Brownson, Department of Community Health and ...