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

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 ...

Dr Salomaa, KTL-National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland (veikko.salomaa{at}ktl.fi) OBJECTIVE To examine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Magdalena Nowakowska, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, The University of Manchester, Suite 5, 5th Floor, Williamson Building, 176 Oxford Road, ...

Background People belonging to sexual minority groups have higher levels of suicidality than heterosexuals. However, findings regarding suicide death are sparse. Using unique national data from two ...