Public health problems are complex; investigating them requires a framework that both accounts for multiple interactions among individuals and their intermediate and broader environment and also ...

Correspondence to Dr Esther García-Esquinas, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Calle del Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain; ...

Correspondence to Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ben.armstrong{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background It is well known that high ambient ...

Background Lower socioeconomic positions (SEP) and poor academic achievement increase children’s risk for mental health problems. The Finnish education system is officially non-selective and unified, ...

2 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Dr Laura D Howe, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, ...

1 Department of Public Health, Health Inequalities Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Social Psychiatry & Population Mental Health Research Unit, University of Otago, ...

Background Prior studies suggest that poor physical health, accompanied by functional disability, is associated with increased divorce risk. However, this association may depend on gender, the ...

Professor van Os, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Section Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, PO Box 616, ...

Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...

Dr Silcocks, Trent Institute for Health Services Research, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH (p.b.silcocks{at}nottingham.ac.uk) OBJECTIVE To investigate the sampling ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limberg Mental Health Research Network, EURON, Maastricht University, Netherlands 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical ...

With the rise of -omics disciplines and biobank research, personal data and biosamples crossing national borders pose new ethical questions. In this article, informed consent, as originally conceived, ...