Background Little is known about the association between direct pollen exposure and cognitive performance. The aim of our ...

Background Reports on socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality are limited in East Asia. We investigated educational inequalities in cancer mortality in Japan, serving as an advanced example of ...

Introduction Prior studies have observed associations between poverty measured at single or across diffuse periods of the life course and cognitive function measured in later life. Few studies examine ...

Background The course of depression from pregnancy to 1 year post partum and risk factors among mothers and fathers are not known. Aims (1) To report the longitudinal patterns of depression from the ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Alex Burdorf, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; a.burdorf{at}erasmusmc.nl ...

2 Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA 3 Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA 4 ...

Background Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage are fundamental to growing an evidence base that can reveal the extent of ...

Background Some effective public health interventions may increase inequalities by disproportionately benefiting less disadvantaged groups (‘intervention-generated inequalities’ or IGIs). There is a ...

3 Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 4 Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 5 Division of General Medicine, Department ...

Background It is commonly believed that nature has positive impacts on children’s health, including physical, mental and social dimensions. This review focuses on how accessibility to, exposure to and ...