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

Background While C-section (CS) deliveries exhibit significant socioeconomic inequalities in low- and middle-income countries ...

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

In their thoughtful review on causal mediation methods, Pearce et al 1 highlighted the challenges posed by exposure-induced mediator–outcome confounders for identifying natural direct and indirect ...

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

3 MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at University College London, London, UK Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of ...

Background There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled ...

Correspondence to Charlotte Hannah Gaughan, Methodology, Office for National Statistics, Newport NP10 8XG, UK; charlotte.gaughan{at}ons.gov.uk Background COVID-19 mortality risk is associated with ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop a short instrument, called DISCERN, which will enable patients and information providers to judge the quality of written information about treatment choices. DISCERN will also ...

Correspondence to Professor Maigeng Zhou, National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 27 Nanwei Road, Xicheng ...

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...

1 Sydney Health Projects Group, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of ...