Background We evaluated the impact of the number of teeth on health expectancy, measured as years of life without limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and physical function, among adults ...

Study objectives: To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people’s living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for ...

Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Dr R Mitchell Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, ...

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 ...

Background Children and young people’s mental health services in the UK are not meeting demand. The UK government has pledged £300 million to introduce Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in half of ...

Background Dementia is a growing public health challenge, with significant disparities in diagnosis rates across ethnic groups. Current evidence on ethnic differences in dementia prevalence and ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...

Background Dental caries remains a significant public health issue across the UK and in Bradford. While early-years settings provide a unique opportunity to promote oral health, the implementation of ...

Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Dr Eva Rehfuess, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, ...

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.

a Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland, b Quality of Care Unit, Geneva University Hospitals Dr Etter, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University ...

Background Little is known about the political views of doctors in the UK despite doctors' importance in the functioning of the National Health Service (NHS). Methods This is a survey-based, ...