Department of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to compare the ability of census based social ...

Background A life course approach has been suggested as the most appropriate to establish the total impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on adult health outcomes; however, such an approach has been ...

Background Volunteering has been linked to reduced mortality in older adults, but the mechanisms explaining this effect remain unclear. This study investigated whether volunteering is associated with ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

1 The University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh, UK 2 The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK Background This study investigated the association ...

3 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Katharina Staehelin, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, associated Institute of the ...

Correspondence to Dr Patrick Burch, Centre for Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; patrick.burch{at}manchester.ac.uk Background There are more people registered with a ...

Background Child mental health has become an increasingly important issue in the UK, especially in the context of significant ...

3 Institute of General Medical Practice, Center for Collaborative Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark Correspondence to Dr Madhuri Sudan, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine whether changes in environmental housing quality influence the wellbeing of movers taking into account other dimensions of housing quality and sociodemographic factors.

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 ...