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 News media have reported that the average height of British children is falling, but these reports have been contested. Child Measurement Programmes (CMPs) operate in schools in England, ...

Debate is ongoing about the nature and use of evidence in public health decision making, and there seems to be an emerging consensus that the “hierarchy of evidence” may be difficult to apply in other ...

This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on international research ...

1 Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Royal Free and UCL Medical School, ...

4 Department of Psychology and Health Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Yvonne Kelly, Department of Epidemiology and ...

This article retraces the historical origins and contemporary resonances of Rudolf Virchow’s famous statement “Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale”.

Background Recognising the importance of the social determinants of health, the Japanese government introduced a health management support programme targeted at type 2 diabetes (T2D) for public ...

Study objective: The aim of this paper is to synthesise empirical findings on the salutogenic concept sense of coherence (SOC) and examine its capacity to explain health and its dimensions. Design: ...

Correspondence to Ms Neta Hagani, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; neta.hagani{at}sydney.edu.au Background There is evidence that the transition to ...

Background We investigated the potential impacts of child poverty (CP) reduction scenarios on population health and health inequalities in England between 2024 and 2033. All data relevant to the study ...

Background Little is known about the association between direct pollen exposure and cognitive performance. The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of pollen exposure on performance in the ...