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 ...

Background In conflict-affected settings, women and girls are vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV). GBV is associated with poor long-term mental health such as anxiety, depression and ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...

Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Alan Marshall, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, Humanities, Bridgeford Street ...

Correspondence to Dr Lindsay McLaren, Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary TRW3, 3280 Hospital Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N ...

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 ...

1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 3 Public Health Section, ...