OBJECTIVES This study examined the contribution of employment status, welfare benefits, alcohol use, and other individual, and contextual factors to physical aggression during marital conflict.

Background 2015 saw the largest annual spike of mortality rates in England in almost 50 years. We examine whether these changes in mortality rates are associated with an indicator of poor functioning ...

Background Lower-quality employment, characterised by excessive or part-time hours, irregular schedules and inadequate earnings, is a key social determinant of health among adults. Research examining ...

Background Poor adherence to antidiabetic medication in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) may lead to increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Socioeconomic and demographic factors associated ...

UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess age ...

Environmental Epidemiology Study Group, Laboratory of Experimental Air Pollution, University of São Paulo Faculty of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil Methods: The sample data were collected between ...

2 Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, UK Background Public sector austerity measures in many high-income countries mean that public health budgets are reducing year on ...

Background Previous studies have found depression to be negatively associated with the prognosis of both cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer, but this may partly reflect reverse causality. We ...

1 Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation and the School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 2 School of Human Movement Studies, University ...

Correspondence to Dr Gregory A Wellenius, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA; Gregory_Wellenius{at}brown.edu Background Maternal ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

8 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Background Mortality in Scotland is higher than in the rest ...