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 ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

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).

3 DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 4 DECIPHer, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 5 Department of Social and Environmental ...

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; ...

1 The University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh, UK 2 The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK Background This study investigated the association ...

1 Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania 2 Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania Correspondence to Dr Tomas Venckunas, Institute of Sport ...