Correspondence to Francesco Acciai, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 211 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802, USA; fya5038{at}psu.edu Background Asian–Americans outlive ...

UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess age ...

Study objective: To investigate the relation between housing, socioeconomic status, and self reported general and mental health. This study is an empirical investigation of social and economic ...

1 International Programme on Chemical Safety, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA 2 International Programme on Chemical Safety, Geneva, Switzerland Correspondence to: Tim Meredith, ...

3 Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 4 Nursing & Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, ...

Introduction Epidemiological studies inform understanding of influences on health. Findings can lead directly to policy changes, but such changes need assessing, using formal intervention studies.

6 Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany 7 IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for ...

Correspondence to Dr Lindsay McLaren, Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary TRW3, 3280 Hospital Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N ...

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 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...

Background Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of ...