Correspondence to Deborah Shipton, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, House 6, 94 Elmbank Street, Glasgow, Larnarkshire G2 4DL, UK, Deborah.shipton{at}glasgow.gov.uk Background Glasgow, the largest ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...

Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...

Background Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience unintentional injuries and poor home environments. The aim of this study was to explore the home environment as a ...

Correspondence to Yimin Zhu, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China; zhuym{at}zju.edu.cn ...

Correspondence to Dr Patrick Präg, Department of Sociology and Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ, UK; patrick.prag{at}sociology.ox.ac.uk Background Intergenerational social ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

Correspondence to Dr Kate A Levin, Public Health Directorate, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow G12 0HX, UK; katyannlevin{at}gmail.com Background Intermediate care (IC) acts as a bridging service ...

Background ‘Adverse childhood experiences’ (ACEs) are associated with increased risk of negative outcomes in later life: ACEs have consequently become a policy priority in many countries. Despite ACEs ...

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Background Smoking is widely known to be damaging to health. It greatly increases the risk of various cancers, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and remains the leading preventable cause of ...

2 Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, UK Background Public sector austerity measures in many high-income countries mean that public health budgets are reducing year on ...