An unequal health policy landscape? Examining socioeconomic differences in acceptability and preferences for policies that aim to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

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 ...

1 Department of Public Health, Health Inequalities Research Programme, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 School of Mathematics, Statistics and ...

Background The current study explored the association between green space and depression in a deprived, multiethnic sample of pregnant women, and examined moderating and mediating variables. Method ...

Correspondence to Mark Pennington, Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, Box 24, David Goldberg Centre, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK; ...

1 Tuberculosis Section, Respiratory and Systemic Infections Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, UK 2 National Mycobacterium Reference Unit, Respiratory and Systemic ...

Correspondence to Rina Pradhan, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 99 Commercial Road, Prahran, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; rina.pradhan ...

1 The University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh, UK 2 The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK Background This study investigated the association ...

Correspondence to Dr Jennifer Susan Mindell, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL (University College London), 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK; j.mindell{at}ucl.ac.uk Background ...

Despite smaller effect sizes, interventions delivered at population level to prevent non-communicable diseases generally have greater reach, impact and equity than those delivered to high-risk groups.