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 ...

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 ...

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 One in seven households in England live in accommodation not meeting housing quality standards. Low-quality ...

Background Early cardiovascular disease risk detection opportunities are limited in men, whereas gestational diabetes, ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

Background Physical activity (PA) is important for maintaining health, but there are fundamental unanswered questions on how best it should be measured. Methods We measured PA in the Netherlands ...

3 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Katharina Staehelin, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, associated Institute of the ...

Background Telehealth has become a critical tool for improving access to care among populations facing physical barriers to in-person care. However, its potential role in delivering care to adults ...

Observational studies aiming to estimate causal effects often rely on conceptual frameworks that are unfamiliar to many researchers and practitioners. We provide a clear, structured overview of key ...

Correspondence to Professor Maria Evandrou, Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; ...

Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before a child reaches the age of 15 with ...