Background Deaths of despair are a key contributor to stagnating life expectancy in the USA, especially among those without a university-level education, but these findings have not been compared ...

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

Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Correspondence to: Dr J T F Lau, Centre for Epidemiology ...

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Background Self-reported health is widely used as a proxy for health status; it is a simple, holistic measure of health and has been associated with other health outcomes. However, these associations ...

Background While compromised stress resilience constitutes a recognised risk factor for somatic and psychiatric disease development in general, the knowledge about how individual variation in ...

Background Knowledge on the origins of the social gradient in stroke incidence in different populations is limited. This study aims to estimate the burden of educational class inequalities in stroke ...

Background Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

1 School of Public Health and Medical Practice, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Public Health, University of California ...

Background The association between socioeconomic disadvantage (low education and/or income) and head and neck cancer is well established, with smoking and alcohol consumption explaining up to ...

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 ...