Prompted by my participation in the People's Climate March held in New York City on 21 September 2014, as part of the ‘Harvard Divest’ contingent, in this brief essay I reflect on the late 20th ...

3 Health Promotion, Ministry of Health, Basque Government, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Correspondence to Amaia Bacigalupe, Health Studies and Research Unit, Ministry of Health, Basque Government, ...

1 Inter-disciplinary Research Centre in Health, Coventry University, Coventry, UK 2 Oxford Centre for Health Care Research and Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK 3 Sonning Common ...

Background Since 2008, use of food banks has risen sharply in the UK; however, evidence on the epidemiology of UK food insecurity is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory of ...

Correspondence to Allison W Watts, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Ave, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454 USA; ...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is frequently adopted for creating socioeconomic proxies in order to investigate the independent effects of wealth on disease status. The guidelines and methods for ...

Background Standing is often classified as light-intensity physical activity, with potential health benefits compared with sitting. Standing is, however, rarely captured as an independent activity. To ...

Correspondence to Elina Einiö, Population Research Unit, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, PO Box 18, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland; elina.einio{at}helsinki.fi Background Previous ...

Correspondence to Dr Neera K Goyal, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., ML# 7009, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; neera.goyal{at}cchmc.org Background ...

Correspondence to Professor Young-Ho Khang, Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea; ...

Background The ageing workforce in China not only brings a great burden to the pension system but also poses a considerable challenge to the healthcare system. This study aims to investigate the ...

Background Weight loss at older ages appears to be associated with higher mortality in Western and some East Asian countries, despite differences in the prevalence of obesity; whether it is relevant ...