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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Anita Kothari, School of Health Studies, The University of Western Ontario, Labatt Health Sciences Building, Room 222, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9; akothari{at}uwo.ca ...

4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...

Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...

1 York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, University of York, UK 2 Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Scuffham, York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, ...

Correspondence to Hannah Hayoung Kim, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; hannahkim{at}g.harvard.edu Background ...

Background Adverse childhood socioeconomic status (cSES) predicts higher late-life risk of memory loss and dementia. Veterans of U.S. wars are eligible for educational and economic benefits that may ...

Correspondence to Dr Nichola Shackleton, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St. London WC1N 1EH, UK; n.shackleton{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Compared to children and adults, little is known about ...