Multi-level research that attempts to describe ecological effects in themselves (for example, the effect on individual health from living in deprived communities), while also including individual ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk ...

1 MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Public health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Objective: To explore with UK and international ...

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 ...

Objective: To provide the first valid and reliable estimate of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers in England by using standardised instruments to compare their health with that of a UK ...

Background Efforts to explain social inequalities in health have mainly focused on adults. Few studies have systematically analysed different explanatory pathways in adolescence. This study is among ...

Background The detrimental impact of social isolation has been reported for several individual outcomes, but less evidence has explored the association between isolation and multi-dimensional measures ...

1 Population Health Research Institute and MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, St George's, University of London, London, UK 4 National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical ...

Correspondence to: Ann Bowling Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK; a.bowlingucl.ac.uk Their ...

6 Kuopio Welfare Research Centre (KWRC), The University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 7 Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 8 University of Eastern ...

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Background This paper aims to assess whether 7-year-olds’ physical activity is associated with family and area-level measures of the physical and socioeconomic environments. Methods We analysed the ...