Background Prehospital delays remain critical barriers to timely acute coronary syndrome (ACS) care, particularly for ...

Background Suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults in South Korea. We investigated the association between ...

Introduction Accounting for missing data by imputing or weighting conditional on covariates relies on the variable with missingness being observed at least some of the time for all unique covariate ...

Background Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) is a leading quantitative approach for intersectionality-informed health research, but most applications ...

Background Housing is a critical social determinant of health for migrant and refugee populations in high-income countries; however, the causal pathways linking housing affordability to health ...

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.

Correspondence to Professor Stefan Listl, Department of Dentistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; stefan.listl{at}radboudumc.nl Background Dental diseases are among ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

Correspondence to: Dr B Lindström Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, S-40242 Gothenburg, Sweden; bengtnhv.se Study objective: The aim of this paper is to systematically review and analyse the ...

It is well known that social, cultural and economic factors cause substantial inequalities in health. Should we strive to achieve a more even share of good health, beyond improving the average health ...

Several independent analyses, by both epidemiologists and actuaries, have concluded that the previous rate of improvement of life expectancy in England and Wales has now slowed markedly, and at older ...

Study objective: The aim of this paper is to synthesise empirical findings on the salutogenic concept sense of coherence (SOC) and examine its capacity to explain health and its dimensions. Design: ...