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, ...

Objective This study aims to investigate the association of life-course socioeconomic status (SES) with lung function during adulthood, by exploring the influence of life-course social mobility and of ...

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

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 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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Annemarie I Luik, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; a.luik{at}erasmusmc.nl Background Physical activity, ...

Correspondence to Ms Jennifer Ervin, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; ...

‘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.’ ...

Health Promotion/International Health, Division of Public Health, Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan Correspondence to: Professor T Takano, Health ...

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 ...