Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental ...

Background Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the ...

Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick Medical School, ...

1 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN 25 year ...

Background Job insecurity is considered a profound work stressor. While previous research has indicated that job insecurity represents a substantial mental health burden, few studies have examined its ...

Faculty of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Will Maimaris, Faculty of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical ...

1 Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom Institute, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 2 Discipline of Public Health, ...

SETTING 11 general practices from the Somerset Morbidity Project. SUBJECTS 885 women consulting their general practitioner with menorrhagia over four years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportions of these ...

Correspondence to Dr Steven D Stovitz, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; stovitz{at}umn.edu Background Frustrated with the ...

Correspondence to Dr Simon Thornley, Epidemiologist, Auckland Regional Public Health Service, Cornwall Complex, Greenlane, Auckland 1051, New Zealand; sithor{at}gmail.com Objective To determine ...