An epidemic often begins as a whisper—in barnyards, wetlands or milking parlours—long before its roar reaches emergency briefings and policy halls. As seen with H5N1 in early 2025, dismissing these ...

7 Union Hospital, Tong-ji Medical College, Hua-zhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China 8 Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, China 9 Second ...

4 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London School of Social Science and Public Policy, London, UK Correspondence to M Schuring, Department of Public Health, Erasmus ...

Correspondence to Dr Emily Long, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK; emily.long{at}glasgow.ac.uk This essay examines key aspects of social ...

Correspondence to Dr Milagros A Ruiz, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; m.a.ruiz{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Social cohesion has a ...

Background Frailty is an age-related health condition affecting an estimated 18% of older adults in Europe and past evidence has shown a relationship between socioeconomic factors and frailty. We ...

Background A large proportion of young people who menstruate report struggling with problematic menstrual symptoms that contribute to their school absences and negatively impact their ability to focus ...

Correspondence to Dr Daisy Fancourt, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; d.fancourt{at}ucl.ac.uk Background There is growing research into the ...

Background It has been shown that fairness perceptions have a strong impact on health, especially under conditions of great work stress. The aim of this study was to extend previous research in ...

Background Poorer colorectal cancer survival in the UK than in similar countries may be partly due to delays in the care pathway. To address this, cancer waiting time targets were established. We ...

Correspondence to Wilco Perini, Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; w.perini{at}amc.nl Background International ...

Correspondence to Ms Laura W Stoff, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0381, USA; lwstoff{at}gmail.com Background Intimate ...