Correspondence to Professor Sun Ha Jee, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion and Institute of Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, the Republic of ...
STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...
Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is among the most important determinants of variations in health outcomes. This systematic review aimed to summarise the association between socioeconomic ...
STUDY OBJECTIVE The authors investigated whether patients who have survived an acute episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (PUB) have an excess long term all cause mortality compared with the general ...
1 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University and Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University ...
Correspondence to Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266021, People's Republic ...
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 ...
Background It is necessary to explore the health problems of vulnerable workers who experience repeated unemployment spells. The number of unemployment spells should be considered in the relationship ...
Background Income is one of the most widely used indicators of socioeconomic position in studies of health inequalities. Despite its frequent use, no empirical-driven guidelines exist on how to ...
Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, including glaucoma, cataract and retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in an elderly Danish ...
Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...
Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the resulting information to those responsible ...