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 ...

Mitigating climate change requires us to rapidly improve the energy efficiency of our existing housing, a process known as ‘retrofit’. However, this creates the risk of ‘renoviction’, whereby tenants ...

Centre for Research on Ageing Health and Wellbeing, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Correspondence to Kim M Kiely, Centre for Research on Ageing ...

Background 2015 saw the largest annual spike of mortality rates in England in almost 50 years. We examine whether these changes in mortality rates are associated with an indicator of poor functioning ...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the contribution of employment status, welfare benefits, alcohol use, and other individual, and contextual factors to physical aggression during marital conflict.

Violence is both a public health and a social problem. Although there is not only one type of violence nor a unique concept of what it means, the following concept has gained consensus, particularly ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

Correspondence to Dr Janine Claire Thoulass, Chronic Disease Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; ...

Background Common mental disorders are known to cause long-term disability, although not much is known about long-term consequences of milder forms of psychological distress. Objective To investigate ...

The concept of “healthy public policy” has had distant roots—perhaps one of the earliest acknowledgments was by an aristocrat in pre-revolutionary France, speaking of the poor people of Paris, “It is ...

2 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA 3 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA ...

6 National School of Public Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7 Laboratory of Health and Environment Education, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil Background There is increased interest ...