Background Is being famous a risk factor for premature death? Previous studies indicate that famous musicians have a higher ...

Background Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is ...

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...

Correspondence to Dr Emily Long, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK; emily.long{at}glasgow.ac.uk This essay examines key aspects of social ...

Western Australian Centre of Rural Health, University of Western Australia, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia Correspondence to Dr Mithilesh Dronavalli, Western Australian Centre of Rural Health ...

3 Department of Economics and NBER, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA 4 Department of Economics and NBER, University of Arizona, USA 5 Department of Medicine & San Francisco ...

1 Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada 2 International Collaborative Centre for the Study of Social and Physical Environment and ...

Director of Public Health for Cumbria Primary Care Trust and Cumbria County Council, Cumbria PCT, Chief Executive’s Delivery Unit, Tynefield Drive, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 8JA, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr S Moore, Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 915 Greene St. (Discovery 1), Rm. 529, USC, Columbia ...

Although chronic diseases are primarily environmental (ie, not genetic) in origin, the particular environmental causes of these diseases are poorly understood. A WHO study of worldwide cancer ...

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.

Background Physical activity (PA) is important for maintaining health, but there are fundamental unanswered questions on how best it should be measured. Methods We measured PA in the Netherlands ...