Objectives To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children’s lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in ...

Background From their Scottish origins in 2009, Deep End GP networks are being established all over the UK and further afield in Ireland and Australia. Formed of primary care practitioners in areas of ...

Background Unpaid labour as a determinant of health is under-researched, especially in low- and middle-income countries where women bear a disproportionate load of unpaid labour. Moreover, the double ...

Too much data? Too much information? The COVID-19 pandemic has made the case. The WHO coined the term ‘infodemic’ to describe the issue of overabundance of information, including misinformation, ...

Footnotes. Twitter jari.haukka.. Contributors All the authors have made substantial contributions: conception and design (LN, AA, TP and JH), data acquisition and analysis (JH and AA), reporting and ...

Health impact assessment (HIA) seeks to expand evaluation of policy and programmes in all sectors, both private and public, to include their impact on population health. While the idea that the public ...

Objective: To examine the relative influence of area of residence on mortality risk along the life course in different age groups and to see if this differs for causes known to be related differently ...

Exponential growth is difficult for people to grasp. But that is what has happened to sales of Albert Camus’s The Plague, first published in 1947. According to Jacqueline Rose, it is ‘an upsurge ...

Background Negative associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health are well documented. However, ...

Study objective: To assess the potential number of lives saved associated with the full implementation of aspects of the National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease (CHD) in England ...

Background Childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is robustly associated with cognitive function later in life. However, it is unclear whether this reflects a direct relationship, or an indirect ...

Introduction ‘First do no harm’ is an ethical imperative above even doing good.1 Although we might assume that public health programmes involving sociobehavioural rather than clinical interventions ...