Objectives This study aims to study the association between socioeconomic factors and risk of prevalent eye diseases, ...

Dr Salomaa, KTL-National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland (veikko.salomaa{at}ktl.fi) OBJECTIVE To examine ...

Correspondence to Dr Sarah N Forrester, Quantitative Health Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; sarah.forrester{at}umassmed.edu Background ...

Correspondence to Dr Madelon L Finkel, Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; maf2011{at}med.cornell.edu Over the past decade, there has been a surge ...

Correspondence to Dr Anita Kothari, School of Health Studies, The University of Western Ontario, Labatt Health Sciences Building, Room 222, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9; akothari{at}uwo.ca ...

Background Son-biased sex ratios at birth (M:F), an extreme manifestation of son preference, are predominately found in East and South Asia. Studies have examined sex ratios among first-generation ...

Background Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of ...

4 Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 5 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 6 MRClCSO Social and Public ...

Background Previous studies of childhood psychosocial adversity and age at menarche mostly evaluated single or a few measures of adversity, and therefore could not quantify total psychosocial ...

Background Adverse childhood socioeconomic status (cSES) predicts higher late-life risk of memory loss and dementia. Veterans of U.S. wars are eligible for educational and economic benefits that may ...

Correspondence to Dr Nichola Shackleton, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St. London WC1N 1EH, UK; n.shackleton{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Compared to children and adults, little is known about ...