Background Influenza vaccines are crucial in reducing the risk of influenza symptoms. We aimed to: (1) estimate the ...

Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...

1 University of Sheffield, School of Health & Related Research, Sheffield, England 2 University of Sheffield, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Sheffield, England 3 University of Alberta, Centre for ...

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 ...

Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Alan Marshall, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, Humanities, Bridgeford Street ...

The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality ...

Community mobilisation interventions have been used to promote health in many low-income and middle-income settings. They frequently involve collective action to address shared determinants of ...

This narrative review summarises recently published epidemiological and in vivo experimental studies on exposure to environmental chemicals and their potential role in the development of type 1 ...

Correspondence to Mark Pennington, Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, Box 24, David Goldberg Centre, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK; ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...