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 ...

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 ...

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

1 General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 Strangeways Research Laboratory, ...

Background Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is important to understand the health consequences of deindustrialisation to help ...

More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: “These are the opinions on which I base my ...

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 ...

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...

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 ...