Background Asthma is a global public health concern, with a considerable burden in India. Although intimate partner violence ...

Background There is a growing understanding of how commercial actors infiltrate systems of public health evidence production ...

Background Excessive work demands and unhealthy behaviours are each associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality, ...

Background Since 2008, use of food banks has risen sharply in the UK; however, evidence on the epidemiology of UK food insecurity is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory of ...

The aim of this glossary is to define some key terms used in the field of developmental and life course epidemiology. A human baby receiving an inadequate supply of nutrients or oxygen may protect its ...

Associate Professor M Baker, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand; ...

3 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA 4 Department of Epidemiology and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School ...

Automobile-centric community design, or ‘motornormativity’, severely restricts opportunities for children to engage in active transportation (AT) and outdoor free play (OFP). As these activities are ...

Epidemiology Department, Institute of Social Medicine (IMS), Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil Background: Domestic violence against the elderly (DVAE) is an increasingly recognised ...

Background To assess the applicability of the association between estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) and all-cause mortality in the elderly population, and the mediating role of brachial-ankle ...

Background Racial residential segregation has been linked to adverse health outcomes, but associations may operate through multiple pathways. Prior studies have not examined associations of ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population.