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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 To investigate the prevalence and nature of low energy reporting in a dietary survey of British adults over 65 years of age. DESIGN Randomly selected cross sectional sample of 2060 ...

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, ...

We welcome the recent extension of multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) to time-to-event outcomes.1 Before researchers deploy the method, we highlight ...

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.

Background Antibiotic prescribing in primary care has decreased over the last five years. Nevertheless, this remains an area of concern as antibiotic resistance rates continue to increase. Some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...