Background The disconnect between populations reporting poorer health outcomes, such as a higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden seen in UK ethnic minority (EM) groups, and those represented in ...

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...

Introduction While many epidemiological studies have shown that low outdoor temperatures are associated with increased rates of hospitalisation and mortality (especially for respiratory or ...

Aim Evidence for a link between physical activity and mental health in young people is hampered by methodological shortcomings. Using repeat assessments of device-measured physical activity, we ...

Background There is good evidence that job stressors are prospectively related to mental health problems, particularly depressive symptoms. This review aimed to examine whether job stressors were also ...

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 ...

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 ...

The relation between body mass index and prevalence of 17 chronic diseases or groups of diseases was analysed using data from the 1983 Italian National Health Survey, based on a sample of 72,284 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. DESIGN Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in three time ...

Objective: To assess the cost effectiveness of a community based exercise programme as a population wide public health intervention for older adults. Design: Pragmatic, cluster randomised community ...

1 Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Background Single motherhood is associated with poorer health, but whether this association varies between ...

Study objective: Many previous studies on socioeconomic inequalities in health have neglected the causal interdependencies between different socioeconomic indicators. This study examines the pathways ...