Place of death (home, hospital, nursing home, etc) is an end-of-life care indicator, important for guiding health policy and ...

Background Knowledge on the long-term development of adiposity throughout childhood/adolescence and its prenatal determinants and health sequelae is lacking. We sought to (1) identify trajectories of ...

This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on international research ...

Minority ethnic groups have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the exact reasons for this remain unclear, they are likely due to a complex interplay of factors rather ...

Background Unemployment has consistently been linked to negative mental health outcomes, emphasising the need to characterise the underlying mechanisms. The current study aimed at testing whether ...

Background Government standards are now in place for children's school meals but not for lunches prepared at home. The aim of this trial is to improve the content of children's packed lunches. Methods ...

Study objectives: To assess the direct and indirect contributions of material, behavioural, and psychosocial factors to the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality simultaneously. Design: ...

Background The debate about whether care home staff should wear uniforms or not is ongoing, with little research evidence to draw on. Uniforms may give staff a professional image and can help ...

OP58 An investigation into the associations between socio-demographic factors, food sources and dietary quality in small island developing states ...

Study objective: To evaluate methods for calculating life expectancy in small areas, for example, English electoral wards. Design: The Monte Carlo method was used to simulate the distribution of life ...

Background Outdoor air pollution can cause serious illness, death and exacerbation of health inequalities on a wide scale and thus is a serious public health concern in the UK. A comprehensive, ...