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 ...

Multi-level research that attempts to describe ecological effects in themselves (for example, the effect on individual health from living in deprived communities), while also including individual ...

Study objective: To assess the health impacts of local public swimming pool and leisure provision. Design: Retrospective qualitative study using focus groups. Reports from two areas with contrasting ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk ...

1 MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Public health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Objective: To explore with UK and international ...

More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: “These are the opinions on which I base my ...

Objective: To provide the first valid and reliable estimate of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers in England by using standardised instruments to compare their health with that of a UK ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of passive smoking at work on use of health care services and absenteeism. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING A workforce in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS 5142 ...

Background Efforts to explain social inequalities in health have mainly focused on adults. Few studies have systematically analysed different explanatory pathways in adolescence. This study is among ...

Background Statistical models (known as epigenetic clocks) that use an individual’s DNA methylation to predict their age have recently been developed, with 96% correlation found between predicted and ...

Background Policy initiatives such as WHO Age Friendly Cities recognise the importance of the urban environment for improving health of older people, who have both low physical activity (PA) levels ...

Background There is an urgent need for mental health promotion strategies in non-clinical contexts. Mindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) are being widely implemented, but evidence is weak with ...