Background Health inequalities are widely studied but how governments operationalise (define and measure) the phenomenon is less well-understood. Existing research focuses mainly on health-led ...
Background Handwashing with soap reduces infection transmission in schools, yet sustained hygiene service delivery is limited ...
Background Marginalisation has been proposed as a risk factor for the development of opioid use disorder (OUD), an important element of Canada’s ongoing opioid epidemic. In this study, we examined the ...
Background Historical redlining, carried out by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), assigned US neighbourhoods grades A (‘best’) to D (‘hazardous’), institutionalising residential segregation ...
While econometrics and statistics drove modern quasi-experimental methods for causal inference in policy evaluation, public health frequently adopts such tools to evaluate health interventions when ...
Manoukian and colleagues provide new longitudinal evidence that engagement with community-led organisations (CLOs) is associated with better mental well-being and there are dose–response relationships ...
The recently updated UK Medical Research Council’s guidance on the use of natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions, published in 2025, adopted a broad definition of natural ...
Background Religious and faith-based institutions play a critical role in the social infrastructure that supports population health. While prior research has focused largely on individual religious ...
The term 'natural experiment’ has a murky conceptual history in public health, with definitions ranging from naturally occurring states to unspecified approximations of randomised trials. Craig and ...
Letter: A novel population data-driven approach to quantifying feasibility of recruitment during the study planning stage: lessons learnt from an e-cigarette pilot study (6 May, 2026) ...
3 State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China, Beijing, ...
1 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Background Stress affects cardiometabolic health, but evidence linking objective, occupation-specific stressors to individual-level ...
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