Correspondence to Dr Esther García-Esquinas, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Calle del Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain; ...

Objective: To provide the first valid and reliable estimate of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers in England by using standardised instruments to compare their health with that of a UK ...

Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work ...

Background Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies. Such policies are thought to disproportionately affect ...

Background: This article examines the multifaceted structures and complex operations of the World Health Organization and its regional offices; it also reassesses the form and the workings of the ...

Background We investigated whether ghost gun recovery rates are significantly associated with firearm mortality rates in the following year across California’s 58 counties from 2014 to 2023. Methods ...

Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr Johan P Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, University Medical Center ...

BACKGROUND Adult height has been inversely associated with coronary heart disease risk in several studies. The mechanism for this association is not well understood, however, and this was investigated ...

Correspondence to: Dr B Lindström Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, S-40242 Gothenburg, Sweden; bengtnhv.se Study objective: The aim of this paper is to systematically review and analyse the ...

Background Care-experienced children are at a greater risk for lower educational attainment. Research suggests that the duration of care is related to educational attainment, as is the type of ...

Background Some effective public health interventions may increase inequalities by disproportionately benefiting less disadvantaged groups (‘intervention-generated inequalities’ or IGIs). There is a ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...