Malnutrition remains one of the most pressing global health crises, exacerbating paediatric mortality in low- and middle-income countries. It has long-term implications, from immediate health concerns ...

Background Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality persist across welfare systems. Income, a key determinant of material resources and long-term security, is rarely measured at the individual level in ...

Correspondence to Dr Jan J Barendregt, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston 4006, Australia; j.barendregt{at}sph.uq.edu.au Background The potential impact ...

4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...

Background Owing to detrimental hazards and substantial healthcare burden and costs, hospitalisation of older people has become a major focus. Frailty has increasingly been recognised as an important ...

3 Brown School of Social Work and Institute of Public Health, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Correspondence to Dr Jean-Francois Trani, Brown School and Institute of Public ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

1 Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 2 School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 3 Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health ...

Correspondence to Professor Chris Bonell, Department of Childhood, Families and Health, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0NR, UK; c.bonell{at}ioe.ac.uk ...

Trimbos-Instituut/Utrecht and VU Medical Centre, Institute of Extramural Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Objective: To identify the most frequent gender-specific suicide methods in Europe. Design ...

Background Overcrowding, typically measured by household density, is increasingly common in urban areas of England. Living in overcrowded homes is associated with poor health and wellbeing and can ...

Background The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) aims to offer a package of behavioural support and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) to support smoking cessation for everyone identified as a smoker on ...