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 ...

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).

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; ...

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 ...

Dr Sander Greenland, Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA; lesdomes{at}ucla.edu Biasing of studies towards results desired by the ...

Background The influence of the sociodemographic context of one's environment on cognitive ageing is not well understood. Methods We examined differences in cognitive trajectories according to the ...

Background In the context of fiscal austerity in many European welfare states, policy innovation often takes the form of ‘social investment’, a contested set of policies aimed at strengthening labour ...

Background Several cross-sectional studies have demonstrated associations between diet quality, including fruit and vegetable consumption, and mental health. However, research examining these ...