Precarity in employment is an increasingly concerning global phenomenon. Yet, despite its rising prevalence and the significant impact it has on many people’s lives and health, definitions of ...

Correspondence to Dr. Zengwu Wang, Division of Prevention and Community Health, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Pecking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical ...

It is becoming increasingly apparent that genetic factors are inadequate to fully explain many processes that shape development and disease. For example, monozygotic twin pairs, despite sharing ...

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Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Adam Fletcher, Faculty of ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...

Correspondence to Dr L D Howe, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK; laura.howe{at}bristol.ac.uk Background: Many epidemiological ...

Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...

The current recognition of the importance of perceived health status as a predictor of need for, and utilisation of, health services has led to attempts to produce indicators which assess subjective ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the suicide risk of doctors in England and Wales, according to gender, seniority and specialty. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. Suicide rates calculated by gender, ...

Correspondence to Dr Melissa M Crane, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA; Melissa_M_Crane{at}rush.edu Objectives Individuals working in blue-collar ...