Background This paper aims to assess whether 7-year-olds’ physical activity is associated with family and area-level measures of the physical and socioeconomic environments. Methods We analysed the ...

Indoor environments can influence human environmental chemical exposures and, ultimately, public health. Furniture, electronics, personal care and cleaning products, floor coverings and other consumer ...

Background: Health inequality has long attracted keen attention in the research and policy arena. While there may be various motivations to study health inequality, what distinguishes it as a topic is ...

Background This paper examines socioeconomic inequalities in mental health at school entry and explores changes in these inequalities over the first 3 years of school. Methods The study utilises ...

Background The latest meta-analysis from the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research concluded that red meat was a probable cause and processed meat a convincing cause of ...

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Correspondence to Professor Karien Stronks, Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; k.stronks{at}amc.uva.nl Background This paper ...

4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA 3 Department of Public Health ...

Background Evidence linking selective migration (the situation where people in good health move from deprived to affluent areas, whilst people in poor health move in the opposite direction) within ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN 25 year ...

Correspondence to Marcel F Jonker, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; m.jonker{at}erasmusmc.nl) Background ...