3 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Yeyi Zhu, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of persistent precarious employment (lasting 12+ months) on the health of working age adults, compared with more stable employment. Persistent precarity reflects a ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

Background This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11–43) ...

Smoking as a risk factor for death by suicide has been a controversial area of inquiry. Over the last 20 years, there has been an expanding body of literature demonstrating that smokers have an ...

Correspondence to Dr Jacques Pépin, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS, 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Qc J1H 5N4, Canada; ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Background: Frailty is a ...

Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental ...

1 Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom Institute, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 2 Discipline of Public Health, ...

Professor Popay, Institute for Public Health Research and Policy University of Salford, 4th Floor, Humphrey Booth House, The Crescent, Salford M5 4QA (j.m.popay{at}salford.ac.uk) Atopic eczema is a ...

Background Although cognitive performance levels in old age have increased in most countries, recent evidence documents a slowing down or even decline in cohort gains in highly developed countries.

Background Early-life socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) are associated with health in old age. However, epidemiological evidences on the influence of these early-life risk factors on trajectories of ...