Background We evaluated the impact of the number of teeth on health expectancy, measured as years of life without limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and physical function, among adults ...

Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Dr R Mitchell Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, ...

Background This study examines the associations between device-measured sleep regularity and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), and aims to determine whether sufficient sleep ...

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.

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

3 Department of Environmental Chemistry, Chemical and Environmental Research Institute, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to: Dr M Kogevinas, ...

Background Little is known about the political views of doctors in the UK despite doctors' importance in the functioning of the National Health Service (NHS). Methods This is a survey-based, ...

Background Antibiotic prescribing in primary care has decreased over the last five years. Nevertheless, this remains an area of concern as antibiotic resistance rates continue to increase. Some ...

Objectives To explore similarities and differences in policy content and the political context of the three main English government reports on health inequalities: the Black Report (1980), the Acheson ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...

a Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland, b Quality of Care Unit, Geneva University Hospitals Dr Etter, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University ...