Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Correspondence to: Dr J T F Lau, Centre for Epidemiology ...

Background Self-reported health is widely used as a proxy for health status; it is a simple, holistic measure of health and has been associated with other health outcomes. However, these associations ...

Background While compromised stress resilience constitutes a recognised risk factor for somatic and psychiatric disease development in general, the knowledge about how individual variation in ...

Background In the United Kingdom (UK), rates of overweight and obesity remain high. Research has demonstrated that despite increased acknowledgement of the upstream drivers of overweight and obesity, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kylie Elizabeth King, Centre for Mental Health, The Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; ...

Background Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of ...

Background Childhood adversities, such as exposure to parental mental illness, domestic violence and abuse, substance use, and family poverty, have been linked to involvement in violence in early ...

3 DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 4 DECIPHer, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 5 Department of Social and Environmental ...

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

OBJECTIVES To summarise the scientific evidence on the relation between educational status and measures of the frequency and the consequences of back pain and of the outcomes of interventions among ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is unclear. This study aimed ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...