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

Background Governments are scaling up investment in housing improvements to meet net zero targets. These improvements are likely to reduce emergency hospital admissions but evidence on the health and ...

Background Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain Correspondence to: Professor B González López-Valcárcel, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ...

Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental contributor to health, yet it is rarely examined relative to gender expression, particularly gender non-conformity and sexual orientation.

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 ...

1 Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA 2 Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of ...

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 ...