Background The WHO recommends ≥150 min/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for older adults, while the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare suggests ≥6000 steps/day.

Background This study investigated whether self-reported race/skin colour and perceived racial discrimination predict higher obesity incidence after approximately 4-year follow-up of the Brazilian ...

Objective: To provide the first valid and reliable estimate of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers in England by using standardised instruments to compare their health with that of a UK ...

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Ms S Karlsen Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 Torrington ...

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Background With an increase in ageing population, cognitive decline represents a major reason of concern. Alcohol has been shown to have a differential impact on cognitive decline according to the ...

Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for evaluating public health ...

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 The latest meta-analysis from the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research concluded that red meat was a probable cause and processed meat a convincing cause of ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Family Medicine, Myongji Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Goyang, ...

This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on international research ...