Background Mortality from alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) in England rose after the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing reports ...

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

The standardised mortality ratio is the ratio of deaths observed, D, to those expected, E, on the basis of the mortality rates of some reference population. On the usual assumptions--that D was ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Evaluation of Social Interventions Programme, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Top Floor, 200 Renfield Street, ...

‘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 Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...