The paper by Xue et al investigated the effects of the 2014 UK policy reform that extended the ‘right to request’ flexible ...

Background Uptake of some childhood immunisations in the UK is lower among those from some Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. This systematic review of qualitative research sought to ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...

Background Common mental disorders are known to cause long-term disability, although not much is known about long-term consequences of milder forms of psychological distress. Objective To investigate ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

Background Unexplained deaths in infancy comprise ‘sudden infant death syndrome’ (SIDS) and deaths without ascertained cause. They are typically sleep-related, perhaps triggered by unsafe sleep ...

2 University of Queensland, School of Population Health and Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute 3 University of Queensland, School of Population Health and University of Washington, ...

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 ...

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London Correspondence: Dr M Joffe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, ...

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, ...

Background High ambient summer temperatures have been shown to influence daily mortality in cities across Europe. Quantification of the population mortality burden attributable to heat is crucial to ...