STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate ethnic differences in self reported health in the city of Malmö, Sweden, and whether these differences could ...

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 Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Population Health Sciences ...

Correspondence to Dr Phil Edwards, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Phil.Edwards{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Many local ...

1 Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA Design: Cross ...

Correspondence to: Dr C Reinhardt Pedersen, National Institute of Public Health, Svanemøllevej 25, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; crp{at}dike.dk Objective: To study the association between parents’ ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which older people's self assessments of general health, physical health, and mental health predict functional decline and mortality. DESIGN The study uses ...