Background Religious and faith-based institutions play a critical role in the social infrastructure that supports population ...

Background Few studies have assessed the impact of large-scale early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes. In this ...

The term 'natural experiment’ has a murky conceptual history in public health, with definitions ranging from naturally ...

Background Psychiatric disorder diagnoses are linked to long-term socioeconomic ‘shadows’ into adulthood, but little is known about how these diagnoses are associated with adulthood payment problems ...

Study objective: This didactical essay is directed to readers disposed to approach multilevel regression analysis (MLRA) in a more conceptual than mathematical way. However, it specifically develops ...

Background Worrying changes in life expectancy trends have been observed recently in the UK, largely attributed to austerity policies introduced over the last decade. To incorporate changes to quality ...

Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for evaluating public health ...

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 ...

Study objectives: To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people’s living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for ...

Correspondence to Dr Sandra Maureen Marquis, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V9G 1A8, Canada; smarquis{at}uvic.ca Background There is evidence in the ...

3 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA 4 Department of Epidemiology and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School ...

1 Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Clinical Epidemiology and ...