Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, ...

3 Section of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Rikke Lund, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University ...

Background A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders.

4 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Steven Hope, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK; s.hope{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Mental ...

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

Background Son-biased sex ratios at birth (M:F), an extreme manifestation of son preference, are predominately found in East and South Asia. Studies have examined sex ratios among first-generation ...

4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the hypothesis that the higher rates of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Indians (South Asians) compared with Malays and Chinese is partly attributable to differences in blood ...

Correspondence to Magdalena Nowakowska, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, The University of Manchester, Suite 5, 5th Floor, Williamson Building, 176 Oxford Road, ...

Background People belonging to sexual minority groups have higher levels of suicidality than heterosexuals. However, findings regarding suicide death are sparse. Using unique national data from two ...

Correspondence to Dr Sarah N Forrester, Quantitative Health Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; sarah.forrester{at}umassmed.edu Background ...