Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - our story 9 June 2025 Meet Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi, the joint Editors-in-chief for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and hear ...

1 Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine and Institute of Environment and Health, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada 2 School of Geography and Geology, Health Studies Program and ...

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA ...

Correspondence to Dr Hiroyuki Shimada, Department of Preventive Gerontology, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan; ...

Background Research has shown that workers in non-standard (eg, temporary and part-time) employment experience poorer health ...

Kim et al 1 provide rigorous quasi-experimental evidence that Korea’s 2014 Basic Pension expansion was associated with sustained reductions in suicide mortality among older women. Their work advances ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.

Dr Silcocks, Trent Institute for Health Services Research, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH (p.b.silcocks{at}nottingham.ac.uk) OBJECTIVE To investigate the sampling ...

The paper by Xue et al investigated the effects of the 2014 UK policy reform that extended the ‘right to request’ flexible working to all employees on their mental health and life satisfaction.1 Using ...

Background UK Biobank (UKB) is a population-based cohort study of half a million participants aged 40–69 recruited between 2006 and 2010 in England, Wales and Scotland. In order to investigate the ...

This narrative review summarises recently published epidemiological and in vivo experimental studies on exposure to environmental chemicals and their potential role in the development of type 1 ...

Background Multimorbidity is socially patterned, with lower socioeconomic position (SEP) linked to higher risk. We examined whether a Healthy Lifestyle Index (HLI) mediates the SEP–multimorbidity ...