Public health problems are complex; investigating them requires a framework that both accounts for multiple interactions among individuals and their intermediate and broader environment and also ...

Correspondence to Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ben.armstrong{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background It is well known that high ambient ...

2 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Dr Laura D Howe, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, ...

With the rise of -omics disciplines and biobank research, personal data and biosamples crossing national borders pose new ethical questions. In this article, informed consent, as originally conceived, ...

Professor van Os, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Section Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, PO Box 616, ...

Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limberg Mental Health Research Network, EURON, Maastricht University, Netherlands 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical ...

Dr Silcocks, Trent Institute for Health Services Research, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH (p.b.silcocks{at}nottingham.ac.uk) OBJECTIVE To investigate the sampling ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.

Correspondence to Menghan Gao, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; menghan.gao{at}ki.se Background Endometriosis is a chronic condition affecting ...

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STUDY OBJECTIVES To understand reasons for compliance and non-compliance with a home based exercise regimen by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN A qualitative study, nested within a ...