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 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 ...

In this issue of JECH, authors from both the People's Health Movement1 and WHO2 agree that primary healthcare makes a considerable contribution to reducing the adverse impact of social inequalities on ...

Correspondence to Erin Hetherington, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; elhether{at}ucalgary.ca Background Low ...

Correspondence to Professor Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, University of Glasgow MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK; vittal.katikireddi{at}glasgow.ac.uk Minority ethnic ...

Background There is limited evidence that nutritional labelling on food/drinks is changing eating behaviours. Physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) food labelling aims to provide the public with ...

Background Rising food bank use in the past decade in the UK raises questions about whether food insecurity has increased. Using the 2016 Food and You survey, we describe the magnitude and severity of ...

Objectives: The aim of this population-based study was to investigate associations between recreational values of the close natural environment and neighbourhood satisfaction, physical activity, ...

Introduction Depression and harmful alcohol consumption contribute significantly to the global health burden, but in young adults, this relationship is under-researched and conflicted. The aim of this ...

Correspondence to Miss Preveina Mahadevan, CPRD, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, London E14, UK; preveina.mahadevan{at}mhra.gov.uk Background The Clinical Practice Research ...

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynaecological neoplasms, especially in industrialised countries. The aetiology of the disease is not well understood, except that inherited mutations in the ...

1 Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester 2 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of ...