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 Neera K Goyal, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., ML# 7009, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; neera.goyal{at}cchmc.org Background ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

Background Child mental health has become an increasingly important issue in the UK, especially in the context of significant ...

Background Little is known about education-related inequalities in late-life disability. Here, we use individual-level register data on the receipt of the Austrian long-term care allowance (ALTCA) to ...

Background Structural racism’s influence on workforce policies and practices presents possible upstream targets for assessing and reducing racial health disparities. This study is the first to examine ...

Background Prior studies have shown a positive relationship between income inequality and population-level mortality. This study investigates whether the relationship between US state-level income ...

Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with many chronic diseases, indicators of senescence and mortality. However, the changing salience of SES in the prediction of adult health is not ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 2 University of Cambridge, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK ...

Dr M Steinberg, Healthy Ageing Unit, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Herston QLD 4006, Australia STUDY OBJECTIVE In the causative mechanism of ...