Epidemiology has traditionally treated individuals as independent units, potentially overlooking relational dynamics that ...

Background Mortality from alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) in England rose after the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing reports lack data on prior healthcare use, which is key to understanding care ...

Environmental pollutants and nutrients may be present in the same foodstuffs or dietary patterns; share internal mechanisms of transport, metabolism and cellular uptake; or target the same molecular ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese towards the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study of subjects' opinions ...

Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...

2 Department of Psychology, Norwegian Inland University of Applied Sciences, HHS Elverum, Norway Correspondence to Leif W Rydstedt, Department of Psychology, Norwegian Inland University of Applied ...

1 Flinders University Northern Territory Clinical School and Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Disease Control, NT Department of Health and ...

Correspondence to Dr S Moore, Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 915 Greene St. (Discovery 1), Rm. 529, USC, Columbia ...

Background Risks of adverse birth outcomes in England and Wales are relatively low but vary across ethnic groups. We aimed to explore the role of mother’s country of birth on birth outcomes across ...

Objective: Recent studies suggest an association between the contextual attributes of neighbourhoods and the health status of residents. However, there has been a scarcity of studies that have ...

Study objective: Education, income, and occupational class are often used interchangeably in studies showing social inequalities in health. This procedure implies that all three characteristics ...

OBJECTIVES To summarise the scientific evidence on the relation between educational status and measures of the frequency and the consequences of back pain and of the outcomes of interventions among ...