Background Child dental caries is highly prevalent worldwide, with significant treatment costs, but its broader societal ...

Background Announced in March 2016 and implemented in April 2018, the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) aims to incentivise the reformulation of soft drinks. The SDIL has successfully decreased the ...

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 ...

Introduction It is expected that the proximity to urban green spaces (UGS) and open sport spaces (OSS) can increase physical activity (PA), but their potential is not fully understood. Objective To ...

Background To evaluate medication adherence and associated factors of seven of the most common drug classes prescribed to community-dwelling older people. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study ...

Results In unadjusted models, greater risk scores across the five domains were associated with increased risk of obesity-hypertension. For the NCDS, in adjusted models, there remained a significant ...

Background The secular trend of dementia incidence is an important input parameter in projecting the future burden of dementia in a population. The estimated disease burden informs health and social ...

OBJECTIVES: To take the common "Bayesian" interpretation of conventional confidence intervals to its logical conclusion, and hence to derive a simple, intuitive way to interpret the results of public ...

Background Community development engages local communities in work for positive social change, such as improving local services and infrastructure. Local government funding for community development ...

Background There is a well-established link between area-level socioeconomic deprivation and psychiatric admission rates. Social capital has been proposed as a possible protective factor that may ...

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pressing public health concern with well-documented evidence of adverse health consequences including mortality, physical, psychological and sexual harm ...