Background Falls can repeatedly occur as people age, which leads to injury, disability and mortality in older adults. Sleep ...

Background During preconception counselling, pregnant women who smoke are advised to quit smoking. While the adverse effects ...

Background Early cardiovascular disease risk detection opportunities are limited in men, whereas gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension and preeclampsia are risk indicators in women. We ...

Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...

Correspondence to Professor Maigeng Zhou, National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 27 Nanwei Road, Xicheng ...

Correspondence to Dr Jo Leonardi-Bee, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...

2 Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health and Social Care, London, UK 3 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, ...

NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), Utrecht, The Netherlands Background: As a result of increasing urbanisation, people face the prospect of living in environments with few ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

Correspondence to Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; rosanne.freak-poli{at}monash.edu Background Social prescribing ...

2 Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, Bangor University, Bangor, UK 3 North Wales Centre for Primary Care Research, Bangor University, ...