Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is a potentially important upstream determinant of late-life cognitive health, but a ...

Background Research has shown that workers in non-standard (eg, temporary and part-time) employment experience poorer health ...

Kim et al 1 provide rigorous quasi-experimental evidence that Korea’s 2014 Basic Pension expansion was associated with sustained reductions in suicide mortality among older women. Their work advances ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...

Objective: To illuminate findings of the survey of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers by exploring their health-related beliefs and experiences. Design: Qualitative study of a purposive ...

1 Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine and Institute of Environment and Health, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada 2 School of Geography and Geology, Health Studies Program and ...

Correspondence to Dr Hiroyuki Shimada, Department of Preventive Gerontology, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan; ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.

Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Yerko Rojas, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Stockholm ...

5 Infostructure Development Division, Centre for Surveillance Coordination, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 6 Research and Technology Division, Centre for Surveillance Coordination, ...

Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in ...