Background Mortality from alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) in England rose after the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing reports lack data on prior healthcare use, which is key to understanding care ...

Background Children in households affected by adult substance misuse face intersecting educational risks. While associations between household adversity and school disengagement are documented, ...

Background Rates of intimate partner homicides of women in the USA are high relative to other high-income countries, ...

Background Previous studies have suggested that some medications may influence dementia risk. We conducted a hypothesis-generating medication-wide association study to investigate systematically the ...

Background The aim of this study is to investigate educational differences in labour market participation expressed by ...

Background Evidence from several countries suggests increasing mental health problems among children and adolescents, raising concerns about deteriorating population mental health. Whether rising ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has created a period of global economic uncertainty. Financial strain, personal debt, recent job loss and housing insecurity are important risk factors for the mental ...

‘The problem is capitalism’, screamed the speaker, at a meeting in Colombia, ‘and there is nothing you can do to reduce health inequalities until you smash capitalism. Nothing. Nothing. Nada. Nada.’ ...

Background The effect of mild-to-moderate maternal iodine deficiency on the neuropsychological development of their offspring is uncertain. We aimed to assess the association between iodine status ...

Correspondence to Professor Garry Nixon, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand; garry.nixon{at}otago.ac.nz Background Previous studies ...

Background Social support is associated with better health. However, only a limited number of studies have examined the association of social support with health from the adult life course perspective ...

3 The University of Edinburgh Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, UK 4 The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh, UK 5 The ...