Malnutrition remains one of the most pressing global health crises, exacerbating paediatric mortality in low- and middle-income countries. It has long-term implications, from immediate health concerns ...

Background Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality persist across welfare systems. Income, a key determinant of material resources and long-term security, is rarely measured at the individual level in ...

2 Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Education of Affectivity and Human Sexuality, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 3 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad ...

Background and methods The national immunisation records of over 220 000 girls offered vaccine in the routine or catch-up programme of the Human papillomavirus (HPV) programme in Scotland were ...

Background There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled ...

Correspondence to Professor Jong-Uk Won, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Severance Hospital, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of); juwon{at}yuhs.ac Background We ...

Background Mortality increases during heat waves have been reported worldwide. The magnitude of these increases can vary within regions according to sociodemographic and urban landscape ...

Background Previously improving UK mortality trends stalled around 2012, with evidence implicating economic policy as the cause. This paper examines whether trends in psychological distress across ...

Background In the last decade, the Neighbourhoods Law in Catalonia (Spain) funded municipalities that presented urban renewal projects within disadvantaged neighbourhoods focusing on physical, social ...

Background This study examined the association between early parental death and children’s subsequent mental health, years of schooling, and labour-market outcomes (ie, employment and earnings) in ...

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 Education and income are independent predictors of mortality, but they also interact so that educational inequalities in mortality are larger at low levels of income. However, the average ...