Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...

3 Section of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Rikke Lund, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University ...

a Department of Health and Social Behavior, and the Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA, b Division of Public Health Practice, ...

4 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Steven Hope, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK; s.hope{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Mental ...

Background A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders.

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the hypothesis that the higher rates of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Indians (South Asians) compared with Malays and Chinese is partly attributable to differences in blood ...

Correspondence to Magdalena Nowakowska, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, The University of Manchester, Suite 5, 5th Floor, Williamson Building, 176 Oxford Road, ...

Background Son-biased sex ratios at birth (M:F), an extreme manifestation of son preference, are predominately found in East and South Asia. Studies have examined sex ratios among first-generation ...

Background Homicide is an extreme expression of violence that has attracted less attention from public health researchers and policy makers interested in prevention. The purpose of this study was to ...