Background Obesity prevalence differs by neighbourhood. One such characteristic of these neighbourhoods is the level of socioeconomic disadvantage. Understanding the nature of neighbourhood ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

3 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to Jennie Connor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 913 ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Family Medicine, Myongji Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Goyang, ...

Correspondence to Dr Phil Edwards, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Phil.Edwards{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Many local ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN 25 year ...

Dr Cedric F Garland, PH, FACE, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine 0631C, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; cgarland{at}ucsd.edu Background: This study examines ...

Objective: To examine the relation between built environment factors (representing several dimensions of urban form of neighbourhoods) and walking activity at both the neighbourhood level and the ...

Background: Health inequality has long attracted keen attention in the research and policy arena. While there may be various motivations to study health inequality, what distinguishes it as a topic is ...

The future organisation of prison health care 1 recommends that the NHS and the Prison Service work together to plan and provide health care services for prisoners. Whereas previously the Prison ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk to human health of the plant bracken (Pteridium sp). DESIGN: An evaluation of studies of human and animal populations exposed to bracken, together with a review of expert ...

1 Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of ...