Background The incidence of lung cancer is unequally distributed in France. Although several studies have shown a link ...

1 Master Applied Communication Science, Master Health and Society, Wageningen University, Internship at the National Institute for Public Health and Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands 2 Centre for ...

The problem is capitalism’, screamed the speaker, at a meeting in Colombia, ‘and there is nothing you can do to reduce health ...

Background Psychological well-being is important for individuals, communities and health services throughout the world because of the costs associated with psychological ill-health and the loss of ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to identify socioeconomic variables associated with deaths and hospital admissions due to hypothermia and to quantify the risk due to ambient outside temperature.

Correspondence to Dr Emily Long, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK; emily.long{at}glasgow.ac.uk This essay examines key aspects of social ...

2 Public Health and Health Policy, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK 3 Global Public Health Unit, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 4 Cardiff Institute of ...

Background Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies. Such policies are thought to disproportionately affect ...

Correspondence to Dr Phil Edwards, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Phil.Edwards{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Many local ...

Background ‘Adverse childhood experiences’ (ACEs) are associated with increased risk of negative outcomes in later life: ACEs have consequently become a policy priority in many countries. Despite ACEs ...

1 Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University & St George's, University of London, UK 2 School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, Sussex, UK Correspondence to ...

Background Little is known about the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on incidence of stroke in China. This study aimed to examine the association of SES, which was measured by different ...