Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - our story 9 June 2025 Meet Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi, the joint Editors-in-chief for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and hear ...

Background Life course epidemiology is now an established field in social epidemiology; in sociodemography, the quantitative analysis of biographies recently experienced significant trend from event ...

Background There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled ...

Background Socioeconomic inequalities are increasingly recognised as an important public health issue, although their role in the leading causes of mortality in urban areas in Europe has not been ...

Background It is known that parents have lower mortality than childless individuals. Support from adult children to ageing parents may be of importance for parental health and longevity. The aim of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Background Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) is a leading quantitative approach for intersectionality-informed health research, but most applications ...

In their thoughtful review on causal mediation methods, Pearce et al 1 highlighted the challenges posed by exposure-induced mediator–outcome confounders for identifying natural direct and indirect ...

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 ...

Background Concerns about loss of greenspace with urbanisation motivate much research on nature and health; however, contingency of greenspace-health associations on the character of community change ...