Background One in seven households in England live in accommodation not meeting housing quality standards. Low-quality ...

Background Early cardiovascular disease risk detection opportunities are limited in men, whereas gestational diabetes, ...

Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Dr R Mitchell Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, ...

Correspondence to Dr Jo Leonardi-Bee, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...

Correspondence to Dr Jacques Pépin, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS, 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Qc J1H 5N4, Canada; ...

Background The aim was to investigate associations between different measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) and incidence of brain tumours (glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma) in a nationwide ...

Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr Johan P Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, University Medical Center ...

Background Frailty is increasingly being considered as multidimensional and can encompass physical, cognitive, psychological, and social frailty domains. However, while the physical and cognitive ...

Correspondence to Professor Stefan Listl, Department of Dentistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; stefan.listl{at}radboudumc.nl Background Dental diseases are among ...