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Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and severe maternal morbidity and mortality in high-income countries: a systematic review
Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is among the most important determinants of variations in health outcomes. This ...
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Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study
Background For evaluation of breast cancer screening and informed prioritisation, it is important to examine the downstream ...
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Income inequality and health: a new challenge
‘The problem is capitalism’, screamed the speaker, at a meeting in Colombia, ‘and there is nothing you can do to reduce health inequalities until you smash capitalism. Nothing. Nothing. Nada. Nada.’ ...
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Gender-based violence and its association with mental health among Somali women in a Kenyan refugee camp: a latent class analysis
Background In conflict-affected settings, women and girls are vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV). GBV is associated with poor long-term mental health such as anxiety, depression and ...
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Housing and health inequities during COVID-19: findings from the national Household Pulse Survey
Correspondence to Gregory Bushman, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; gbushman{at}umich.edu Background ...
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Medication adherence in community-dwelling older people exposed to chronic polypharmacy
Background To evaluate medication adherence and associated factors of seven of the most common drug classes prescribed to community-dwelling older people. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study ...
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Spatial social polarisation: using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes jointly for income and race/ethnicity to analyse risk of hypertension
Correspondence to Justin M Feldman, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...
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The effect of reduced street lighting on road casualties and crime in England and Wales: controlled interrupted time series analysis
Correspondence to Dr Phil Edwards, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Phil.Edwards{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Many local ...
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The socioeconomic status of older adults: How should we measure it in studies of health inequalities?
STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population.
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The problem of accuracy in dietary surveys. Analysis of the over 65 UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey
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 ...
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Interdisciplinary research in public health: the ‘why’ and the ‘how’
Correspondence to Dr Joelle Kivits, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France; joelle.kivits{at}univ-lorraine.fr Public health constitutes ...