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

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 ...

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 ...

Study objective: To investigate the relation between housing, socioeconomic status, and self reported general and mental health. This study is an empirical investigation of social and economic ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...

Augustine J Kposowa, Department of Sociology, 1214 Watkins Hall, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine the ...

I read with interest the recent study by Tanaka et al 1 examining ]educational inequalities in site-specific cancer mortality in Japan. The authors provide nationwide census-linked analyses across 23 ...