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Exploring independent and joint effects of handgrip strength weakness and asymmetry on frailty progression: findings from two longitudinal cohorts

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 ...
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How bad are life expectancy trends across the UK, and what would it take to get back to previous trends?

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 ...
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Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales

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 ...
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Adolescents' proxy reports of parents' socioeconomic status: How valid are they?

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 ...
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Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis

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 ...
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A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

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.
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Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK: 3 year follow-up outcomes of a ...

Background Evidence regarding the effectiveness of 20 miles per hour (mph) speed limit interventions is limited, and rarely have long-term outcomes been assessed. We investigate the effect of a 20 mph ...
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Six steps in quality intervention development (6SQuID)

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, ...
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The concept of prevention: a good idea gone astray?

Over time, the definition of prevention has expanded so that its meaning in the context of health services is now unclear. As risk factors are increasingly considered to be the equivalent of “diseases ...
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Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study

Background The association of maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy with severe neonatal morbidity (SNM) is still inconclusive. We aimed to examine the associations of the timing and the ...
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Housing affordability effects on physical and mental health: household survey in a population with the world’s greatest housing affordability stress

Correspondence to Dr Roger Yat-Nork Chung, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong; rychung{at}cuhk.edu.hk Background We ...