Background Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is ...

Western Australian Centre of Rural Health, University of Western Australia, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia Correspondence to Dr Mithilesh Dronavalli, Western Australian Centre of Rural Health ...

More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: “These are the opinions on which I base my ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA 2 Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Correspondence to: Dr M A Hernán Department ...

Associate Professor M Baker, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand; ...

Background Depression and anxiety are prevalent among women with uterine fibroids (UF). The rate of mental health diagnoses in women with UF has not been studied. Methods Women aged 18–50 years with ...

Public Health Sciences, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland Correspondence to: Professor R Bhopal Public Health Sciences, Division of ...

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.

Environmental Studies Programme, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Background: Housing is an important environmental influence on ...

Background Neighbourhood parks are places designed to support physical activity, but are often underutilised. Park renovations are major improvements to the quality of these spaces and usually attract ...

Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Professor S Michie, Research Department of Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, University College London, 1–19 ...

Multilevel analysis has recently emerged as a useful analytical technique in several fields, including public health and epidemiology. This glossary defines key concepts and terms used in multilevel ...