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 ...

Aim This study summarised available evidence on the association between early and on-time retirement, compared with continued working, and mortality. Moreover, this study investigated whether and to ...

Background Depression is associated with socioeconomic disadvantage. However, whether and how depression exerts a causal effect on employment remains unclear. We used Mendelian randomisation (MR) to ...

1 York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, University of York, UK 2 Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Scuffham, York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, ...

6 Occupational Health Research Center (CiSAL), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to Dr Joan Benach, Health Inequalities Research ...

Background Long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID) include muscle weakness, fatigue, breathing difficulties and sleep disturbance over weeks or months. Using UK longitudinal data, we assessed the ...

Correspondence to Professor Evelyne de Leeuw, CHETRE, University of New South Wales, Liverpool, NSW 1871, Australia; e.deleeuw{at}unsw.edu.au Intersectorality has become an unchallenged article of ...

Background The health disadvantages faced by Australian Aboriginal peoples are evidenced in early life, although few studies have focused on the reasons for population-level inequalities in more ...

Background Social, economic and health disparities between northern and southern England have persisted despite Government policies to reduce them. We examine long-term trends in premature mortality ...

Correspondence to Dr Ying Yang, National Research Institute for Family Planning, National Human Genetic Resources Center, Beijing 100081, China; angela-yy65{at}hotmail.com and Dr Xu Ma, National ...

Background Inpatients experiencing homelessness are often discharged to unstable accommodation or the street, which may increase the risk of readmission. Methods We conducted a cohort study of 2772 ...