The Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr C R Titaley, School of Public Health, Room 129A, Edward Ford Building (A27), University ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - our story 9 June 2025 Meet Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi, the joint Editors-in-chief for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and hear ...

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...

Background: This article examines the multifaceted structures and complex operations of the World Health Organization and its regional offices; it also reassesses the form and the workings of the ...

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.

Objectives To explore similarities and differences in policy content and the political context of the three main English government reports on health inequalities: the Black Report (1980), the Acheson ...

1 Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Karst Environment, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China ...

Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is a potentially important upstream determinant of late-life cognitive health, but a ...

Background Research has shown that workers in non-standard (eg, temporary and part-time) employment experience poorer health ...

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...

Kim et al 1 provide rigorous quasi-experimental evidence that Korea’s 2014 Basic Pension expansion was associated with sustained reductions in suicide mortality among older women. Their work advances ...