Correspondence to: Dr D Lawlor, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK; d.a.Lawlor{at}bristol.ac.uk It has been suggested that rural ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Family Medicine, Myongji Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Goyang, ...

Background: Health inequality has long attracted keen attention in the research and policy arena. While there may be various motivations to study health inequality, what distinguishes it as a topic is ...

Objective: To examine the relation between built environment factors (representing several dimensions of urban form of neighbourhoods) and walking activity at both the neighbourhood level and the ...

Dr Cedric F Garland, PH, FACE, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine 0631C, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; cgarland{at}ucsd.edu Background: This study examines ...

Background The latest meta-analysis from the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research concluded that red meat was a probable cause and processed meat a convincing cause of ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health ...

2 University of Queensland, School of Population Health and Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute 3 University of Queensland, School of Population Health and University of Washington, ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN 25 year ...

Correspondence to Dr. Meifang Chen, Department of Public Health, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; mchen62{at}calstatela.edu Background Emerging studies have investigated the ...

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 ...

8 School of Public Health and Social Policy, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada 9 Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada ...