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 ...

Background Both loneliness and mental health represent important public health themes with stable or even worsening ...

4 Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany Correspondence to Dr Jochen Klenk, Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...

The current recognition of the importance of perceived health status as a predictor of need for, and utilisation of, health services has led to attempts to produce indicators which assess subjective ...

Background Australian and international studies have reported an attenuation in previous declines in acute coronary syndrome ...

Background The link between housing and health is well established and long-standing, however much of the evidence relies on self-reported health measures. While these are useful, the availability of ...

Augustine J Kposowa, Department of Sociology, 1214 Watkins Hall, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine the ...

Correspondence to Dr Hou-Feng Zheng, Diseases & Population (DaP) Geninfo Lab, Westlake University and Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; zhenghoufeng{at}westlake.edu.cn; ...

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...

Correspondence to Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ben.armstrong{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background It is well known that high ambient ...