2 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA 3 Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, USA Objective To assess whether ...

2 Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston ...

Background Alcohol control policy has a fundamental role in limiting negative health, economic and social harm caused by alcohol consumption. However, there is substantial international heterogeneity ...

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, ...

OBJECTIVES Height is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease mortality risk and has shown variable associations with cancer incidence and mortality. The interpretation of findings from ...

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 ...

Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, including glaucoma, cataract and retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in an elderly Danish ...

Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...

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 The health disadvantages faced by Australian Aboriginal peoples are evidenced in early life, although few studies have focused on the reasons for population-level inequalities in more ...