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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mitigating climate change requires us to rapidly improve the energy efficiency of our existing housing, a process known as ‘retrofit’. However, this creates the risk of ‘renoviction’, whereby tenants ...

1 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 2 Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University 3 ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and ...

Correspondence to Gregory Bushman, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; gbushman{at}umich.edu Background ...

Background To evaluate medication adherence and associated factors of seven of the most common drug classes prescribed to community-dwelling older people. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study ...

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 ...

Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is among the most important determinants of variations in health outcomes. This ...

Background Prescribing is the most common intervention made by healthcare professionals. Our study aimed to compare prescribing between general practitioner (GP) practices with the highest and lowest ...

Background The link between housing and health is well established and long-standing, however much of the evidence relies on self-reported health measures. While these are useful, the availability of ...

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 ...