NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), Utrecht, The Netherlands Background: As a result of increasing urbanisation, people face the prospect of living in environments with few ...

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...

Background Worrying changes in life expectancy trends have been observed recently in the UK, largely attributed to austerity policies introduced over the last decade. To incorporate changes to quality ...

Correspondence to Dr Esther García-Esquinas, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Calle del Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain; ...

3 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Center for Social, Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, USA Correspondence to: Dr B Galobardes Department of Social ...

Study objectives: To investigate the association between job strain and components of the job strain model and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Design: Prospective cohort study (Whitehall II study).

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down ...

3 Epidemiology and Public Health, Centre for Clinical and Population Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Correspondence to Dr D Brown, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank ...

Background Some effective public health interventions may increase inequalities by disproportionately benefiting less disadvantaged groups (‘intervention-generated inequalities’ or IGIs). There is a ...

Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...

Background Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies. Such policies are thought to disproportionately affect ...