Background Asthma is a global public health concern, with a considerable burden in India. Although intimate partner violence ...

Background Excessive work demands and unhealthy behaviours are each associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality, ...

Background Health inequalities are widely studied but how governments operationalise (define and measure) the phenomenon is less well-understood. Existing research focuses mainly on health-led ...

Background There is a growing understanding of how commercial actors infiltrate systems of public health evidence production ...

Background Since 2008, use of food banks has risen sharply in the UK; however, evidence on the epidemiology of UK food insecurity is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory of ...

Correspondence to: Professor D J P Barker Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 4XY, UK; djpbmrc.soton.ac.uk The aim of this glossary is ...

Associate Professor M Baker, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand; ...

3 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA 4 Department of Epidemiology and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School ...

Automobile-centric community design, or ‘motornormativity’, severely restricts opportunities for children to engage in active transportation (AT) and outdoor free play (OFP). As these activities are ...

Epidemiology Department, Institute of Social Medicine (IMS), Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil Background: Domestic violence against the elderly (DVAE) is an increasingly recognised ...

Background To assess the applicability of the association between estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) and all-cause mortality in the elderly population, and the mediating role of brachial-ankle ...

Background Racial residential segregation has been linked to adverse health outcomes, but associations may operate through multiple pathways. Prior studies have not examined associations of ...