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 ...

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 ...

Background Research to improve prehospital treatment and care requires the participation of clinical and managerial staff from ambulance services to test interventions and collect research data.

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 ...

Correspondence to You-Lin Qiao, National Cancer Center/ National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/ Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing ...

1 Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, ...

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 ...

Background Grip strength is a well-established predictor of various chronic conditions and all-cause mortality. Body weight and physical activity (PA) are considered potential determinants of muscle ...

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 ...

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