Background With delayed childbearing increasingly prevalent in the Western Pacific, its life-course implications for early ...

Background Although avoidable mortality in South Korea has fallen substantially, whether socioeconomic inequality gradients ...

Online marketing by the food and beverage industry has proliferated in recent years, but regulation to protect children has ...

Objective Tackling unhealthy diets is a public health priority. This study describes adherence to government dietary guidance ...

Background Cultural engagement reportedly enhances older adults’ well-being. Physiological age (PA) reflects the ...

Background Proportionate universalism aims to improve overall health while decreasing health inequity across the social ...

In this essay, we give an overview of the relationships between the design and structure of health systems, health service provision and utilisation, and inequalities in population health. This shows ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

4 Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 5 Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia Background and study aims There is widespread ...

Background The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions — the “mixed” group — remains unclear and requires new insights, given the increasing size and complexity of the group ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) entered the public spotlight like never before. Amidst this increased visibility, the role is deeply contested. Much of the ...

Background Owing to detrimental hazards and substantial healthcare burden and costs, hospitalisation of older people has become a major focus. Frailty has increasingly been recognised as an important ...