Background Prehospital delays remain critical barriers to timely acute coronary syndrome (ACS) care, particularly for ...

Background Housing is a critical social determinant of health for migrant and refugee populations in high-income countries; however, the causal pathways linking housing affordability to health ...

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...

3 MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at University College London, London, UK Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of ...

Correspondence to Charlotte Hannah Gaughan, Methodology, Office for National Statistics, Newport NP10 8XG, UK; charlotte.gaughan{at}ons.gov.uk Background COVID-19 mortality risk is associated with ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop a short instrument, called DISCERN, which will enable patients and information providers to judge the quality of written information about treatment choices. DISCERN will also ...

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...

1 Sydney Health Projects Group, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of ...

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 ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

2 Population Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK Background During the first 1,001 days women and their infants are distinctively vulnerable in terms of their susceptibility to food ...

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, 30–32 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LN, United Kingdom 2 Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and ...