The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality was small in the 1950s, rose to a large value around 1990 but had largely ...

Background The theory of human functioning and school organisation proposes that schools with rigid ‘boundaries’ (weaker relationships), for example, between staff and students, or learning and ...

Background: The objectives of this study are to identify family and job characteristics associated with long work hours, to analyse the relationship between long work hours and several health ...

Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...

Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; and University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Professor Eric Emerson, Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster ...

Postal surveys are a cost effective method of obtaining information from large numbers of geographically disparate medical professionals about their attributes, behaviours, attitudes and beliefs. The ...

Background Hearing problems are among the top 10 most common burdens of disease and are projected to be become even more common by the year 2030. The aim of the present study was to give a current ...

Objective: To test the hypothesis that maternal common mental disorders (CMD) are associated with poorer child nutritional status in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Vietnam, and Peru).

Correspondence to Mark Pennington, Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, Box 24, David Goldberg Centre, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK; ...

Goldacre et al 1 use an impressively large database (28 616 cases and 325 456 controls) and an observed/expected ratio significantly below unity (0.83; 95% CI 0.74 to 0.93) in their record linkage ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

Dr Angela Spelsberg, Acting chief of the working group on health and member of the board of Transparency International, German Chapter, Tumorzentrum Aachen e.V., Wendlingweg 2, 52074 Aachen, Germany; ...