Background Individual screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is typically performed through either direct clinical examination ...

1 West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2 West China Research Center for Rural Health Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China ...

Background Behaviours across a 24-hour day, including physical activity, sedentary time and sleep, are disrupted following cancer and contribute to cancer-related outcomes. This study describes the ...

3 MRC/CSO Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Professor Daniel Wight, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, ...

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA ...

3 WHO Collaborating Centre for Housing Standards and Health, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK Correspondence to Dr Michael Keall, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and ...

Background Within the UK, there has been debate on whether life expectancy is increasing or decreasing in particular single or 3-year periods, but there has been less thinking whether overall trends ...

Background The UK Government’s ‘welfare reform’ programme included reductions to social security payments, phased in over the financial years 2011/2012–2015/2016. Previous studies of social security ...

2 Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 3 Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 4 Department of Social ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.