Mixed-methods research leverages the strengths of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and methods to generate a comprehensive understanding of phenomena. There is ample guidance about ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA 2 Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Correspondence to: Dr M A Hernán Department ...

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.

It is well known that social, cultural and economic factors cause substantial inequalities in health. Should we strive to achieve a more even share of good health, beyond improving the average health ...

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1 Department of Epidemiology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, ...

Trimbos-Instituut/Utrecht and VU Medical Centre, Institute of Extramural Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Objective: To identify the most frequent gender-specific suicide methods in Europe. Design ...

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 ...

Background Both adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse childhood socioeconomic conditions (SECs) in early life are associated with poor outcomes across the life course. However, the complex ...

1 Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester 2 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of ...