1 Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada 2 International Collaborative Centre for the Study of Social and Physical Environment and ...

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.

2 Population Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland and International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...

Background Multiple approaches that can contribute to reducing obesity have been proposed. These policies may share overlapping pathways, and may have unanticipated consequences, creating considerable ...

Correspondence to Hannah Hayoung Kim, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; hannahkim{at}g.harvard.edu Background ...

Violence against women is a significant health and social problem affecting virtually all societies, but often it goes unrecognised and unreported and in many countries it is still accepted as part of ...

Background Previous studies have reported associations between lower lifetime socioeconomic position (SEP) and higher body mass index in adulthood, but few have examined associations with direct ...

Background Alcohol control policy has a fundamental role in limiting negative health, economic and social harm caused by alcohol consumption. However, there is substantial international heterogeneity ...

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 ...

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