Background The prevalence of hidden populations using illicit substances may lead to underestimation of the health and social ...

Introduction This study examined the impact of the expansion, implemented in July 2014, of Korea’s tax-financed ...

Background The systematic review is becoming an increasingly popular and established research method in public health. Obtaining systematic review skills are therefore becoming a common requirement ...

Background Studies on associations between urban green space and mental health have yielded mixed results. This study examines associations of green space exposures with subjective health and ...

Background Mental illness is a major disease burden in the world and disproportionately affects the socially disadvantaged, but studies on the longitudinal association of poverty with anxiety and ...

The Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr C R Titaley, School of Public Health, Room 129A, Edward Ford Building (A27), University ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The authors investigated whether patients who have survived an acute episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (PUB) have an excess long term all cause mortality compared with the general ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...

1 General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 Strangeways Research Laboratory, ...

Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the ...