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 ...

Dr Salomaa, KTL-National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland (veikko.salomaa{at}ktl.fi) OBJECTIVE To examine ...

Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, ...

Background A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders.

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

4 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Steven Hope, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK; s.hope{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Mental ...

Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the resulting information to those responsible ...

Aim This study summarised available evidence on the association between early and on-time retirement, compared with continued working, and mortality. Moreover, this study investigated whether and to ...

4 Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 5 UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti, ...

1 New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 2 NYU Wagner School of Public Service, New York, New York, USA Background A previous analysis examined the contribution of ...

1 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, ...

Correspondence to Dr Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Max-Planck Odense Center for the Biodemography of Aging, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 9, 5000 Odense C, Denmark; vcanudas{at}health.sdu ...