5 Institute of Health Equity, University College London, London, UK 6 School of Health Sciences, City University London, London, UK Background Provision of universal coverage is essential for ...

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”.

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 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 ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

Background A step change in the night environment is taking place, with the large-scale installation of bright, broad-spectrum road lighting such as white light-emitting diodes (LEDs). One ...