Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is a potentially important upstream determinant of late-life cognitive health, but a ...

Background Research has shown that workers in non-standard (eg, temporary and part-time) employment experience poorer health ...

Kim et al 1 provide rigorous quasi-experimental evidence that Korea’s 2014 Basic Pension expansion was associated with sustained reductions in suicide mortality among older women. Their work advances ...

Correspondence to Dr Hiroyuki Shimada, Department of Preventive Gerontology, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan; ...

Background Unexplained deaths in infancy comprise ‘sudden infant death syndrome’ (SIDS) and deaths without ascertained cause. They are typically sleep-related, perhaps triggered by unsafe sleep ...

Objectives: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs’ responses; describe patients help-seeking pathways; and consider how these ...

5 Infostructure Development Division, Centre for Surveillance Coordination, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 6 Research and Technology Division, Centre for Surveillance Coordination, ...

Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in ...

Correspondence to Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen 1014, Denmark; ...

Background Research has linked food insecurity to mental health problems, though little is known about this relationship among Canadian youth. We investigate the association between food insecurity ...

Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Correspondence to: Professor I Kawachi, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 ...

Department of Community Health and Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St Louis, USA Correspondence to: Dr R C Brownson, Department of Community Health and ...