Background Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and ...

Background Governments are scaling up investment in housing improvements to meet net zero targets. These improvements are likely to reduce emergency hospital admissions but evidence on the health and ...

Background Marginalisation has been proposed as a risk factor for the development of opioid use disorder (OUD), an important ...

Correspondence to Francesca Gallè, Department of Movement Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy; francesca.galle{at}uniparthenope.it Background Tattoos were ...

The study by the authors investigates whether acute workplace stress induces rapid cardiometabolic changes by exploiting an innovative natural experiment: daily stock market fluctuations experienced ...

The link between poor housing, environmental conditions, and health has been long established. 1 In Glasgow, one of the worst areas of slum housing was in the Gorbals. The photograph on the left, ...

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 ...

6 National School of Public Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7 Laboratory of Health and Environment Education, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil Background There is increased interest ...

Correspondence to Ms Jennifer Ervin, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; ...

Background Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies. Such policies are thought to disproportionately affect ...

Background Socio-spatial health inequalities are increasing in England, as in many other high-income countries. While most research focuses on inequalities between the extreme ends of the deprivation ...

Data and documentary records from past societies offer valuable and unique insights for understanding and navigating the challenges of the modern world. Public health crises such as climate change, ...