Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Operationalising health inequalities across multiple policy levels in the UK: place, gaps and the missing social gradient

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 ...
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Effectiveness of a multi-component hand hygiene intervention in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Nigeria

Background Handwashing with soap reduces infection transmission in schools, yet sustained hygiene service delivery is limited ...
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From market shocks to metabolic shocks: how acute workplace stress affects cardiometabolic biomarkers in employees

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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Association of retirement age with mortality: a population-based longitudinal study among older adults in the USA

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...
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The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa

Objectives: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and ...
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Back to back housing, courts, and privies: the slums of 19th century England

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Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study

Correspondence to Benjamin Barr, Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK; benbarr{at}liverpool.ac.uk Background Low physical activity is one of ...
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Decision modelling for health economic evaluation

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Cognitive function trajectories and their determinants in older people: 8 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...
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Finding the real case-fatality rate of H5N1 avian influenza

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 ...
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Editorial Board

Comprehensive list of the editorial board for JECH, including editor in chief, associate editors & social media advisors.
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P19 Positive patient identification and critical clinical information: a systematic review of misidentification errors, facilitators and barriers

Background Timely access to critical clinical and patient information is important, particularly in life-threatening events where rapid retrieval is crucial for appropriate care. The complexity of ...