Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...

The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality ...

1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, ...

Background The opioid overdose mortality crisis in the USA is an ongoing public health epidemic. Ongoing law enforcement strategies to disrupt local unregulated drug markets can have an iatrogenic ...

Background The UK legalised same-sex marriage in 2014. We examine whether same-sex marriage legalisation (SSML), an exogenous policy change, affected the health outcomes among ethnic minority lesbian, ...

Correspondence to Dr Daisy Fancourt, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; d.fancourt{at}ucl.ac.uk Background There is growing research into the ...

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Anne McMunn, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 ...

Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Division of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan Background: The aim of this study was to ...

Background Longer schooling is associated with better physical, mental and cognitive functioning, but there is controversy as to whether these associations are causal. We examine the long-term health ...

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 ...

National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Health Promotion—Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome Italy Correspondence to Serena Donati, National Centre for ...

Background Childhood head injury has been associated with the development of behavioural and psychological problems. This study examined the relationship between head injury in young childhood and ...