Background Teenage pregnancy rates across the UK and other English-speaking high-income countries have fallen across recent decades. Britain’s rates fell from 46.9 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged ...

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 ...

1 MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 3 Mental Health and ...

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 ...

1 School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Prevention Research Collaboration, Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders, University ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese towards the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study of subjects' opinions ...

Epidemiology Branch, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: Dr R H N Nguyen NIEHS, 111 TW Alexander Drive Epidemiology ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of persistent precarious employment (lasting 12+ months) on the health of working age adults, compared with more stable employment. Persistent precarity reflects a ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which older people's self assessments of general health, physical health, and mental health predict functional decline and mortality. DESIGN The study uses ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...

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 ...