Public health problems are complex; investigating them requires a framework that both accounts for multiple interactions among individuals and their intermediate and broader environment and also ...

Correspondence to Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ben.armstrong{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background It is well known that high ambient ...

Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...

2 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Dr Laura D Howe, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, ...

Professor van Os, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Section Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, PO Box 616, ...

With the rise of -omics disciplines and biobank research, personal data and biosamples crossing national borders pose new ethical questions. In this article, informed consent, as originally conceived, ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limberg Mental Health Research Network, EURON, Maastricht University, Netherlands 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical ...

PURPOSE Interest in the effects of neighbourhood or local area social characteristics on health has increased in recent years, but to date the existing evidence has not been systematically reviewed.

Correspondence to Menghan Gao, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; menghan.gao{at}ki.se Background Endometriosis is a chronic condition affecting ...

3 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Correspondence to Dr Lindsey ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk to human health of the plant bracken (Pteridium sp). DESIGN: An evaluation of studies of human and animal populations exposed to bracken, together with a review of expert ...

4 Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA 5 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ...