1 School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Correspondence to Dr Sai Yin Ho, School of Public Health, ...

BACKGROUND Adult height has been inversely associated with coronary heart disease risk in several studies. The mechanism for this association is not well understood, however, and this was investigated ...

Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Lianne Parkin, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, ...

Conflict and Health Programme, Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health ...

Background Social engagement and social isolation are key determinants of mental health in older age, yet there is limited evidence on how public policies may contribute to reducing isolation, ...

Background High ambient summer temperatures have been shown to influence daily mortality in cities across Europe. Quantification of the population mortality burden attributable to heat is crucial to ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...

1 Centre for Public Health, Faculty of Health and Applied Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 2 Behavioural Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores ...

3 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Katharina Staehelin, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, associated Institute of the ...

1 CIRRAU—Centre for Integrated Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 2 National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 3 The Danish Clinical ...