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

1 University of Sheffield, School of Health & Related Research, Sheffield, England 2 University of Sheffield, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Sheffield, England 3 University of Alberta, Centre for ...

Correspondence to Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266021, People's Republic ...

Correspondence to Dr James R Dunn, Department of Health, Aging & Society, Kenneth Taylor Hall, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4; jim.dunn{at}mcmaster.ca ...

Correspondence to Dr Melissa M Crane, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA; Melissa_M_Crane{at}rush.edu Objectives Individuals working in blue-collar ...

2 Division of Public Health Sciences, University of Nottingham Medical School and International Centre for Health and Society, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Professor R G Wilkinson, ...

Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...

1 National School of Public Health, Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain 2 CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Background The magnitude of intimate partner ...

Background Hearing problems are among the top 10 most common burdens of disease and are projected to be become even more common by the year 2030. The aim of the present study was to give a current ...

Background The theory of human functioning and school organisation proposes that schools with rigid ‘boundaries’ (weaker relationships), for example, between staff and students, or learning and ...

Goldacre et al 1 use an impressively large database (28 616 cases and 325 456 controls) and an observed/expected ratio significantly below unity (0.83; 95% CI 0.74 to 0.93) in their record linkage ...