Background With global population ageing, frailty poses a growing public-health challenge. Many countries have promoted social participation to mitigate frailty among older adults, but the ...
A physician in China died by suicide after months of sustained online harassment. According to public reports, the incident followed an emergency, life-saving procedure performed with the family’s ...
Adverse psychosocial exposure or “misery” is associated with physical disease. This association may not be causal. Rather it may reflect issues of reverse causation, reporting bias, and confounding by ...
Background There are substantial socioeconomic inequalities in both life expectancy and healthcare use in England. In this study, we describe how these two sets of inequalities interact by estimating ...
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; ...
Correspondence to Professor Chris Bonell, Department of Childhood, Families and Health, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0NR, UK; c.bonell{at}ioe.ac.uk ...
5 Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Correspondence to Dr Jane Muncke, Food ...
Correspondence to Andrew J Baxter, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G2 3AX, UK; a.baxter.1{at}research.gla.ac.uk Background Homelessness is associated ...
5 Institute of Health Equity, University College London, London, UK 6 School of Health Sciences, City University London, London, UK Background Provision of universal coverage is essential for ...
Community mobilisation interventions have been used to promote health in many low-income and middle-income settings. They frequently involve collective action to address shared determinants of ...
Rationale Body dissatisfaction is prevalent in mid-adolescence and may be associated with the onset of depression. Objective The study assessed the influence of body dissatisfaction on the occurrence ...