Background Suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults in South Korea. We investigated the association between ...

Background Falls can repeatedly occur as people age, which leads to injury, disability and mortality in older adults. Sleep ...

Background During preconception counselling, pregnant women who smoke are advised to quit smoking. While the adverse effects ...

Background Many studies have detected a negative relationship between income inequality and general measures of health. However, data limitations have prevented a full understanding of whose health is ...

The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based ...

1 Centre for Public Health, Faculty of Health and Applied Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 2 Behavioural Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores ...

Objective To carry out a randomised controlled trial on the effect of a new method of health promotion—email and mobile phone text messages (short messaging service (SMS))—on young people's sexual ...

Correspondence to Professor Stefan Listl, Department of Dentistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; stefan.listl{at}radboudumc.nl Background Dental diseases are among ...

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 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...

1 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China 2 Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, The University ...