Background With delayed childbearing increasingly prevalent in the Western Pacific, its life-course implications for early ...

Objective Tackling unhealthy diets is a public health priority. This study describes adherence to government dietary guidance ...

Background Evidence from several countries suggests increasing mental health problems among children and adolescents, raising ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

Correspondence to Dr Roman Pabayo, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada; pabayo{at}ualberta.ca Background Compared to other Organisation for Economic ...

Letter: Response to letter: ‘Interpreting educational inequalities in site-specific cancer mortality: statistical significance versus public health relevance’ (14 May, 2026) ...

Background Internationally, the prevalence of adults with obesity is a major public health concern. Few studies investigate the explanatory pathways between fast-food outlets and body mass index (BMI) ...

Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden Correspondence to: Dr A Hammarström, Family Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, ...

Background Owing to detrimental hazards and substantial healthcare burden and costs, hospitalisation of older people has become a major focus. Frailty has increasingly been recognised as an important ...

I read with interest the recent study by Tanaka et al 1 examining ]educational inequalities in site-specific cancer mortality in Japan. The authors provide nationwide census-linked analyses across 23 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN 25 year ...