Background Religious and faith-based institutions play a critical role in the social infrastructure that supports population ...

Background Few studies have assessed the impact of large-scale early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes. In this ...

The term 'natural experiment’ has a murky conceptual history in public health, with definitions ranging from naturally ...

Background Psychiatric disorder diagnoses are linked to long-term socioeconomic ‘shadows’ into adulthood, but little is known about how these diagnoses are associated with adulthood payment problems ...

Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for evaluating public health ...

Background Worrying changes in life expectancy trends have been observed recently in the UK, largely attributed to austerity policies introduced over the last decade. To incorporate changes to quality ...

Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Alan Marshall, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, Humanities, Bridgeford Street ...

Correspondence to Dr Sandra Maureen Marquis, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V9G 1A8, Canada; smarquis{at}uvic.ca Background There is evidence in the ...

3 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA 4 Department of Epidemiology and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School ...

Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in ...

1 Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Clinical Epidemiology and ...

Introduction Lifestyle factors in combination have been hypothesised to be associated with the prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and mortality among individuals with T2D. The aim was to conduct a ...