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

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

Background Sarcopenia is a major age-related health condition that remains inadequately recognised as a public health concern. While previous studies have primarily focused on physical risk factors, ...

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 Uniform international measurement tools for assessing healthy ageing are currently lacking. Objectives The study assessed the novel comprehensive global Ageing Trajectories of Health: ...

8 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Background Mortality in Scotland is higher than in the rest ...

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 ...

Background Physical activity (PA) is important for maintaining health, but there are fundamental unanswered questions on how best it should be measured. Methods We measured PA in the Netherlands ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...

Background: Peer reviewers are usually unpaid and their efforts not formally acknowledged. Some journals have difficulty finding appropriate reviewers able to complete timely reviews, resulting in ...