Background With global population ageing, frailty poses a growing public-health challenge. Many countries have promoted ...

Background Children and young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be at increased risk of ...

Multimorbidity is of increasing concern for healthcare systems globally, particularly in the context of ageing population structures, such as in the European Union and the UK. Although there is ...

Correspondence to Dr Jo Leonardi-Bee, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...

Correspondence to: Dr E Regidor Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; ...

Background Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage are fundamental to growing an evidence base that can reveal the extent of ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...

Correspondence to Andrew J Baxter, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G2 3AX, UK; a.baxter.1{at}research.gla.ac.uk Background Homelessness is associated ...

Background Small Island Developing States (SIDS) often lack food and nutrition security and sovereignty due to historically poor infrastructure to support local food systems, reduced domestic food ...

1 Department of Medical Sociology, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany Correspondence to Dr Nico Dragano, Department of Medical Sociology, University Clinic Duesseldorf, University of ...

Background Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have a markedly higher overall mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), as well as many other causes of death like cancer. Since diabetes is a ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.