Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, ...

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

Background A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders.

4 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Steven Hope, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK; s.hope{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Mental ...

4 Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 5 UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti, ...

Aim This study summarised available evidence on the association between early and on-time retirement, compared with continued working, and mortality. Moreover, this study investigated whether and to ...

Correspondence to Dr Sarah N Forrester, Quantitative Health Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; sarah.forrester{at}umassmed.edu Background ...

Background Son-biased sex ratios at birth (M:F), an extreme manifestation of son preference, are predominately found in East and South Asia. Studies have examined sex ratios among first-generation ...

1 New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 2 NYU Wagner School of Public Service, New York, New York, USA Background A previous analysis examined the contribution of ...

Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the resulting information to those responsible ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and nature of low energy reporting in a dietary survey of British adults over 65 years of age. DESIGN Randomly selected cross sectional sample of 2060 ...

Correspondence to Dr Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Max-Planck Odense Center for the Biodemography of Aging, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 9, 5000 Odense C, Denmark; vcanudas{at}health.sdu ...