Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Invited commentary on: Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the U…

The paper by Xue et al investigated the effects of the 2014 UK policy reform that extended the ‘right to request’ flexible ...
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A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

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.
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Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?

Background Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies. Such policies are thought to disproportionately affect ...
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SMART lunch box intervention to improve the food and nutrient content of children's packed lunches: UK wide cluster randomised controlled trial

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, ...
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Sex differences in the relationship between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...
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OP53 Loneliness, social isolation and all-cause mortality in the over 50s in ireland: findings from the irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA)

Background Interest in loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for premature mortality has recently gained increased attention in both the research literature and public discourses. This has ...
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P70 Staff uniforms in care homes – demonstrating professionalism but diminishing home? A qualitative analysis of online content and discussion forums

Background The debate about whether care home staff should wear uniforms or not is ongoing, with little research evidence to draw on. Uniforms may give staff a professional image and can help ...
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UK Public Health Science conference 2026: a call for abstracts

We are delighted to invite you to the 2026 UK Public Health Science (UKPHS) conference held in collaboration with our new partner, the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSMPH).
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Do short birth intervals have long-term implications for parental health? Results from analyses of complete cohort Norwegian register data

Background Short and very long interbirth intervals are associated with worse perinatal, infant and immediate maternal outcomes. Accumulated physiological, mental, social and economic stresses arising ...
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Effect of exercise referral schemes upon health and well-being: initial observational insights using individual patient data meta-analysis from the National Referral Database

Objectives To examine if exercise referral schemes (ERSs) are associated with meaningful changes in health and well-being in a large cohort of individuals throughout England, Scotland, and Wales from ...
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Leisure activities are linked to mental health benefits by providing time structure: comparing employed, unemployed and homemakers

Correspondence to Dr Jutta M Wolf, Psychology Department, Brandeis University, 415 South St. MS062, Waltham, MA 02454, USA; jmw{at}brandeis.edu Background Unemployment has consistently been linked to ...