Background Is being famous a risk factor for premature death? Previous studies indicate that famous musicians have a higher ...

Background The Swedish Targeted Health Dialogue (THD) is a widely implemented, individual-focused intervention involving ...

Background Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is ...

Background Chronically absent students miss learning opportunities at school, and as a result, may suffer academically and socially. Student absenteeism is rising across the USA, with 14%–30% of K-12 ...

Background Quantifying the potential health benefits of improvements in the nutritional quality of the average diet of a population would provide evidence for resource allocation between ...

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 ...

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 ...

Western Australian Centre of Rural Health, University of Western Australia, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia Correspondence to Dr Mithilesh Dronavalli, Western Australian Centre of Rural Health ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...

1 General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 Strangeways Research Laboratory, ...

Correspondence to: J Benach Health Inequalities Research Group, Occupational Health Research Unit, Department of Health and Experimental Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Dr Aiguader, 88, 08003 ...