Correspondence to Dr Kylie Elizabeth King, Centre for Mental Health, The Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; ...

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

The multiple cause black box paradigm of the current risk factor era in epidemiology is growing less serviceable. This single level paradigm is likely to be displaced. The signs are that the growing ...

Multi-level research that attempts to describe ecological effects in themselves (for example, the effect on individual health from living in deprived communities), while also including individual ...

Background Multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) have a higher prevalence in socioeconomically deprived populations. Self-management strategies are vital for people with MLTCs, and effective ...

Background Suicidal thoughts and domestic abuse are major public health concerns which have enduring physical, psychological and economic impacts on the individuals affected, and their family and ...

Study objective: To assess the health impacts of local public swimming pool and leisure provision. Design: Retrospective qualitative study using focus groups. Reports from two areas with contrasting ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk ...

1 MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Public health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Objective: To explore with UK and international ...

4 Division of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, USA 5 Department of Global Health and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA ...

More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: “These are the opinions on which I base my ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of passive smoking at work on use of health care services and absenteeism. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING A workforce in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS 5142 ...