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 ...

Background Community-led organisations (CLOs) are place-based, community governed entities that aim to enhance health and ...

The recently updated UK Medical Research Council’s guidance on the use of natural experiments to evaluate population health ...

Correspondence to Dr Antonio Ivan Lazzarino, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, London, UK; a.lazzarino{at}imperial.ac.uk Background Mental healthcare ...

Proportionate universalism (PU) has been proposed as a framework for policy implementation that has the potential to reduce health inequalities while improving population health.1 Lamont et al provide ...

Background: Monitoring and empirical evaluation are essential components of evidence based public health policies and programmes. Consequently, there is a growing interest in monitoring of, and ...

Background Neighbourhood deprivation has been associated with poor health. The evidence for social causation, however, remains scarce because selective residential mobility may also create ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Annemarie I Luik, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; a.luik{at}erasmusmc.nl Background Physical activity, ...

1 Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2 Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, ...

Background Recognising the importance of the social determinants of health, the Japanese government introduced a health management support programme targeted at type 2 diabetes (T2D) for public ...