Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Dr R Mitchell Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, ...

Background Sarcopenia is a major age-related health condition that remains inadequately recognised as a public health concern ...

Background Little is known about the political views of doctors in the UK despite doctors' importance in the functioning of the National Health Service (NHS). Methods This is a survey-based, ...

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.

In this issue of the journal Jennifer Ahern et al 1 present the results of a multilevel analysis showing the increased likelihood of preterm birth affecting both African American and white women ...

Background Antibiotic prescribing in primary care has decreased over the last five years. Nevertheless, this remains an area of concern as antibiotic resistance rates continue to increase. Some ...

Objectives To explore similarities and differences in policy content and the political context of the three main English government reports on health inequalities: the Black Report (1980), the Acheson ...

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 ...

Background We evaluated the impact of the number of teeth on health expectancy, measured as years of life without limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and physical function, among adults ...

1 York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, University of York, UK 2 Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Scuffham, York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...