Background Community resilience is a relevant concept in public health, but its empirical relationship with health outcomes ...

Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to poor health and social outcomes, with growing interest in their ...

Background Spousal caregiving is linked to increased symptoms of poor mental health among older people. Less is known about ...

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 ...

Welfare states are important determinants of health. Comparative social epidemiology has almost invariably concluded that population health is enhanced by the relatively generous and universal welfare ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Jacques Pépin, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS, 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Qc J1H 5N4, Canada; ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down ...

the pragmatic need to inform decision makers regardless of the quality of the evidence. These have implications for commissioning and conducting reviews. Methods must be developed to: facilitate ...

Background: The relationship between unemployment and increased risk of morbidity and mortality is well established. However, what is less clear is whether this relationship varies between welfare ...

Background Multimorbidity is socially patterned, with lower socioeconomic position (SEP) linked to higher risk. We examined whether a Healthy Lifestyle Index (HLI) mediates the SEP–multimorbidity ...