Background The ‘right to request’ flexible working policy has been gradually extended and, by 2014, extended to cover all ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study ...

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...

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: The relationship between unemployment and increased risk of morbidity and mortality is well established. However, what is less clear is whether this relationship varies between welfare ...

Background The most direct way in which climate change is expected to affect public health relates to changes in mortality rates associated with exposure to ambient temperature. Many countries ...

Multimorbidity is of increasing concern for healthcare systems globally, particularly in the context of ageing population structures, such as in the European Union and the UK. Although there is ...

Associate Professor M Baker, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand; ...

6 Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany 7 IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for ...

Background: Studies have shown associations between health indices and access to “green” environments but the underlying mechanisms of this association are not clear. Objectives: To examine ...