Background Is being famous a risk factor for premature death? Previous studies indicate that famous musicians have a higher ...

Background Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is ...

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...

3 Department of Economics and NBER, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA 4 Department of Economics and NBER, University of Arizona, USA 5 Department of Medicine & San Francisco ...

More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: “These are the opinions on which I base my ...

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the ...

Public Health Sciences, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland Correspondence to: Professor R Bhopal Public Health Sciences, Division of ...

Correspondence to: Dr S Allender British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK ...

Correspondence to: Dr A Mold Centre for History in Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT,UK; ...

Background Growing evidence suggests that sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) intake can increase long-term weight gain and hence worsen the ongoing obesity epidemic. A tax on SSBs might offer an effective ...

2 Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Deakin University 3 Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Deakin University 4 Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, ...