STUDY OBJECTIVE: To identify the main determinants of self assessed health among community dwelling elderly. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: A representative sample of 677 people aged 65 and over of the ...

1 Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China 2 HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, and Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The ...

Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Kate Lewis, Department of Population, Policy and ...

1 University of Sheffield, School of Health & Related Research, Sheffield, England 2 University of Sheffield, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Sheffield, England 3 University of Alberta, Centre for ...

1 National School of Public Health, Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain 2 CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Background The magnitude of intimate partner ...

Correspondence to Dr James R Dunn, Department of Health, Aging & Society, Kenneth Taylor Hall, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4; jim.dunn{at}mcmaster.ca ...

Correspondence to Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266021, People's Republic ...

Background The theory of human functioning and school organisation proposes that schools with rigid ‘boundaries’ (weaker relationships), for example, between staff and students, or learning and ...

2 Division of Public Health Sciences, University of Nottingham Medical School and International Centre for Health and Society, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Professor R G Wilkinson, ...

Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...

Background Hearing problems are among the top 10 most common burdens of disease and are projected to be become even more common by the year 2030. The aim of the present study was to give a current ...

Department of Food and Nutrition, Chung-Ang University - Anseong Campus, Anseong, Korea (the Republic of) Correspondence to Sangah Shin, Department of Food and Nutrition, Chung-Ang University, 4726, ...