Background Negative associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health are well documented. However, ...

Background This study examined the independent effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social support on ...

Footnotes. Twitter jari.haukka.. Contributors All the authors have made substantial contributions: conception and design (LN, AA, TP and JH), data acquisition and analysis (JH and AA), reporting and ...

An epidemic often begins as a whisper—in barnyards, wetlands or milking parlours—long before its roar reaches emergency briefings and policy halls. As seen with H5N1 in early 2025, dismissing these ...

Exponential growth is difficult for people to grasp. But that is what has happened to sales of Albert Camus’s The Plague, first published in 1947. According to Jacqueline Rose, it is ‘an upsurge ...

Objective: To determine the incidence and incidence density of adverse events (AEs) in Spanish hospitals (including the pre-hospitalisation period). Method: Retrospective cohort study. Results: The ...

Community mobilisation interventions have been used to promote health in many low-income and middle-income settings. They frequently involve collective action to address shared determinants of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to tuberculosis (TB) care and service delivery in 2020, setting back progress in the fight against TB by several years. As newer COVID-19 ...

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...

Introduction ‘First do no harm’ is an ethical imperative above even doing good.1 Although we might assume that public health programmes involving sociobehavioural rather than clinical interventions ...

Background Education attainment can improve life expectancy and guide healthy behaviours throughout an entire lifetime. A nationwide longitudinal study of the association of education status with the ...