Background During preconception counselling, pregnant women who smoke are advised to quit smoking. While the adverse effects ...

Background One in seven households in England live in accommodation not meeting housing quality standards. Low-quality ...

Background Early cardiovascular disease risk detection opportunities are limited in men, whereas gestational diabetes, ...

Background Mental health challenges faced by young people are increasing. Women and girls experience higher levels of internalised mental illness, such as depression and anxiety. This may be because ...

Correspondence to Dr Jo Leonardi-Bee, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...

Background The contribution of increasing numbers of deaths from suicide, alcohol-related and drug-related causes to changes in overall mortality rates has been highlighted in various countries. In ...

Correspondence to Dr Phil J Edwards, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; phil.edwards{at}LSHTM.ac.uk Background Plans to phase out fossil fuel-powered internal ...

Correspondence to Liam Wright, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, UK, WC1E 7HB; liam.wright.17{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Governments have implemented a ...

3 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Katharina Staehelin, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, associated Institute of the ...

Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr Johan P Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, University Medical Center ...

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 ...

1 Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Clinical Epidemiology and ...