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 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 ...

Goldacre et al 1 use an impressively large database (28 616 cases and 325 456 controls) and an observed/expected ratio significantly below unity (0.83; 95% CI 0.74 to 0.93) in their record linkage ...

Postal surveys are a cost effective method of obtaining information from large numbers of geographically disparate medical professionals about their attributes, behaviours, attitudes and beliefs. The ...

Objective: To test the hypothesis that maternal common mental disorders (CMD) are associated with poorer child nutritional status in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Vietnam, and Peru).

Correspondence to Mark Pennington, Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, Box 24, David Goldberg Centre, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK; ...

Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; and University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Professor Eric Emerson, Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster ...

The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality was small in the 1950s, rose to a large value around 1990 but had largely ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

3 DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 4 DECIPHer, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 5 Department of Social and Environmental ...