The reduction of health inequalities has been a priority of researchers, decision-makers and practitioners for many years.

Background Although voting is recognised as a social determinant of health, the association between electoral participation ...

Background: Resilience is having good outcomes despite adversity and risk and could be described in terms of preserving the same level of the outcome or rebounding back to that level after an initial ...

Correspondence to Charlotte Hannah Gaughan, Methodology, Office for National Statistics, Newport NP10 8XG, UK; charlotte.gaughan{at}ons.gov.uk Background COVID-19 mortality risk is associated with ...

2 The Cathie Mash Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 3 Institution for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK Correspondence to ...

Background Many governments have introduced tougher eligibility assessments for out-of-work disability benefits, to reduce rising benefit caseloads. The UK government initiated a programme in 2010 to ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Correspondence to Dr Gemma Carey, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian ...

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 ...

3 WHO Collaborating Centre for Housing Standards and Health, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK Correspondence to Dr Michael Keall, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and ...

Objective: To examine the relation between built environment factors (representing several dimensions of urban form of neighbourhoods) and walking activity at both the neighbourhood level and the ...

Study objective: (1) To provide a didactic and conceptual (rather than mathematical) link between multilevel regression analysis (MLRA) and social epidemiological concepts. (2) To develop an ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down ...