Background Although voting is recognised as a social determinant of health, the association between electoral participation ...

The reduction of health inequalities has been a priority of researchers, decision-makers and practitioners for many years.

Background: Resilience is having good outcomes despite adversity and risk and could be described in terms of preserving the same level of the outcome or rebounding back to that level after an initial ...

Correspondence to Charlotte Hannah Gaughan, Methodology, Office for National Statistics, Newport NP10 8XG, UK; charlotte.gaughan{at}ons.gov.uk Background COVID-19 mortality risk is associated with ...

3 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Center for Social, Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, USA Correspondence to: Dr B Galobardes Department of Social ...

3 MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at University College London, London, UK Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of ...

The aim of this glossary is to define some key terms used in the field of developmental and life course epidemiology. A human baby receiving an inadequate supply of nutrients or oxygen may protect its ...

Objective: To examine the relation between built environment factors (representing several dimensions of urban form of neighbourhoods) and walking activity at both the neighbourhood level and the ...

Study objectives: To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people’s living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for ...

Objectives To explore similarities and differences in policy content and the political context of the three main English government reports on health inequalities: the Black Report (1980), the Acheson ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which older people's self assessments of general health, physical health, and mental health predict functional decline and mortality. DESIGN The study uses ...

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...