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 ...

Background There are substantial socioeconomic inequalities in both life expectancy and healthcare use in England. In this study, we describe how these two sets of inequalities interact by estimating ...

Background: This article examines the multifaceted structures and complex operations of the World Health Organization and its regional offices; it also reassesses the form and the workings of the ...

5 Institute of Health Equity, University College London, London, UK 6 School of Health Sciences, City University London, London, UK Background Provision of universal coverage is essential for ...

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA ...

Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre), Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Correspondence to: Ms A Harden ...

1 Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Department of Psychological Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago ...

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; ...

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 ...

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

Correspondence to Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266021, People's Republic ...