An epidemic often begins as a whisper—in barnyards, wetlands or milking parlours—long before its roar reaches emergency briefings and policy halls. As seen with H5N1 in early 2025, dismissing these ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is unclear. This study aimed ...

4 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London School of Social Science and Public Policy, London, UK Correspondence to M Schuring, Department of Public Health, Erasmus ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Dr B Lindström The Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, Nya Varvet, Gothenborg 40242, Sweden; bengtnhv.se If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

Background It has been shown that fairness perceptions have a strong impact on health, especially under conditions of great work stress. The aim of this study was to extend previous research in ...

Correspondence to Dr Mari Kajiwara Saito, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; mari.kajiwara{at}lshtm.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Dr Emily Long, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK; emily.long{at}glasgow.ac.uk This essay examines key aspects of social ...

Background The association between socioeconomic disadvantage (low education and/or income) and head and neck cancer is well established, with smoking and alcohol consumption explaining up to ...

Correspondence to Dr Milagros A Ruiz, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; m.a.ruiz{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Social cohesion has a ...

Background Frailty is an age-related health condition affecting an estimated 18% of older adults in Europe and past evidence has shown a relationship between socioeconomic factors and frailty. We ...