Introduction Sex disparities in suicide mortality persist worldwide, with male rates 2–4 times higher than female rates, but ...

We are grateful to Jiang for the insightful letter1 concerning our article, ‘Educational inequalities in site-specific cancer mortality: a Japanese census-linked study.’2 We appreciate the opportunity ...

Background This study aims to examine the stages of mortality and epidemiologic transition in Bangladesh where detailed studies are not well documented but significant decline in fertility and ...

Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK Correspondence to Dr L Marlow, Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA 2 Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Correspondence to: Dr M A Hernán Department ...

Diseases are frequently referred to as communicable or non-communicable. Communicable diseases comprise infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and measles, while non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are ...

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Background The early identification of individuals at risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has major public health implications for Alzheimer’s disease prevention. Objective This study aims to ...

Background Owing to detrimental hazards and substantial healthcare burden and costs, hospitalisation of older people has become a major focus. Frailty has increasingly been recognised as an important ...

Background We investigated whether ghost gun recovery rates are significantly associated with firearm mortality rates in the following year across California’s 58 counties from 2014 to 2023. Methods ...

Background Zambia has made significant strides in achieving the UNAIDS 95–95-95 targets, with 88.7% of people living with HIV aware of their status, 98% of diagnosed individuals on antiretroviral ...

Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Dr A V Diez Roux, University of Michigan, Center for Social ...