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 ...
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 ...
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 Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Correspondence to: Dr A Zanobetti Department of Environmental Health, Exposure Epidemiology and Risk Program, Harvard ...
Background To quantify inequalities in obesity-related complication (ORC) prevalence and differences in healthcare costs between the most (Q1) and least (Q5) deprived quintiles of people living with ...
Background People who do not smoke can be involuntarily exposed to tobacco smoke through direct exposure, known as secondhand smoke (SHS), and indirect exposure to residual tobacco-derived pollutants ...
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 ...
1 West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2 West China Research Center for Rural Health Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China ...
Background With delayed childbearing increasingly prevalent in the Western Pacific, its life-course implications for early ...