Background Immune-mediated processes leading to childhood type 1 diabetes may begin in fetal life. We hypothesised that a ...

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pressing public health concern with well-documented evidence of adverse health consequences including mortality, physical, psychological and sexual harm ...

He came back. Third time in two months. First with a fever, then a rash, now wheezing. Each time, I prescribed what I could. Each time, his mother nodded, thanked me, and left. Today, I looked closer.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of marital status on the risk of suicide, using a large nationally representative sample. A related objective was to investigate the ...

Results Between 2019 and 2023 there were a total of 1,469,450 procedures across the private sector, comprising 1,030,095 NHS-commissioned private orthopaedic procedures and 439,355 private orthopaedic ...

Background The return of public health to local government in England in 2013 created an opportunity to integrate preventive services with agencies that act on the wider determinants of health. A ...

Results In the unadjusted model, CEP spend was associated with SAMHI, such that a 25% decrease in spending was associated with a small increase in SAMHI of 0.03 (95% CI: 0, 0.06; p=0.03), indicating ...

Background Illicit drug use in adolescence has been linked to drug use and poor mental health in adult life, but few studies have examined the relation between adult economic and criminal justice ...

Background This umbrella review aimed to synthesise global socioeconomic inequalities in the uptake of routine vaccinations and identify any mechanisms that may contribute to the association. Existing ...

Background Urban neighbourhoods contain a range of positive mental health determinants, however exposure to violence also can occur in public neighbourhood spaces (e.g. physical violence, verbal ...

Results 1149 citations were screened for eligibility, 14 were suitable for inclusion in the systematic review. The 14 studies included the patient perspective and voice of 418 breast cancer patients ...

Ezzati M, Horwitz MEM, Thomas DSK, et al. Altitude, life expectancy and mortality from ischaemic heart disease, stroke, COPD and cancers: national population-based analysis of US counties. J Epidemiol ...