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 ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queens University Belfast, Royal Victoria ...

Correspondence to Hannah Hayoung Kim, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; hannahkim{at}g.harvard.edu Background ...

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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 ...

3 Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 4 Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Cork Teaching Hospitals, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 5 ...

Background There is considerable evidence demonstrating socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, some of which focuses on intraurban inequalities. However, all the studies assume that the spatial ...

Background Health effects of ozone have been observed in numerous studies. However, analyses of more cause-specific morbidity or mortality outcomes have rarely been performed. A study was undertaken ...

1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

Background Socioeconomic inequalities are increasingly recognised as an important public health issue, although their role in the leading causes of mortality in urban areas in Europe has not been ...