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 The aim of the study is to explain the persistent but puzzling positive correlation of physicians per capita and mortality rates, when income is controlled, which has been reported ...

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 ...

1 International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK 2 MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of ...

Trasande et al 1 reported that limiting exposure to alleged endocrine disrupting chemicals would reduce the burden of adult diabetes by 13% and save €4.51 billion/year. On review, however, their paper ...

Background: Studies of effectiveness of school-based prevention of substance misuse have generally overlooked gender differences. The purpose of this work was to analyse gender differences in the ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Rachel S Bergmans, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA; rbergs{at}med.umich.edu Objective Determine the early impact of the COVID-19 ...