Background The ‘right to request’ flexible working policy has been gradually extended and, by 2014, extended to cover all ...

Mixed-methods research leverages the strengths of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and methods to generate a comprehensive understanding of phenomena. There is ample guidance about ...

Background With global population ageing, frailty poses a growing public-health challenge. Many countries have promoted social participation to mitigate frailty among older adults, but the ...

Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Correspondence to: Professor I Kawachi, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 ...

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 ...

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population.

Correspondence to: Dr M Hernán Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; miguel_hernanpost.harvard.edu Zeus is a patient waiting for a ...

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: Dr B Lindström The Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, Nya Varvet, Gothenborg 40242, Sweden; bengtnhv.se If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael Pluess, Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is unclear. This study aimed ...