Background Falls can repeatedly occur as people age, which leads to injury, disability and mortality in older adults. Sleep ...

Background During preconception counselling, pregnant women who smoke are advised to quit smoking. While the adverse effects ...

The world is increasingly shaped by powerful global forces, many of which have consequences for human health and the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health are increasingly ...

Background Concerns about loss of greenspace with urbanisation motivate much research on nature and health; however, contingency of greenspace-health associations on the character of community change ...

Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...

Multimorbidity is of increasing concern for healthcare systems globally, particularly in the context of ageing population structures, such as in the European Union and the UK. Although there is ...

2 Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health and Social Care, London, UK 3 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, ...

Correspondence to: Dr M Joffe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.joffe{at}imperial.ac.uk Health impact assessments look at the ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...

1 Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Clinical Epidemiology and ...