Background Religious and faith-based institutions play a critical role in the social infrastructure that supports population ...

Background Few studies have assessed the impact of large-scale early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes. In this ...

Background Community-led organisations (CLOs) are place-based, community governed entities that aim to enhance health and ...

The term 'natural experiment’ has a murky conceptual history in public health, with definitions ranging from naturally ...

The recently updated UK Medical Research Council’s guidance on the use of natural experiments to evaluate population health ...

Proportionate universalism (PU) has been proposed as a framework for policy implementation that has the potential to reduce health inequalities while improving population health.1 Lamont et al provide ...

Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Alan Marshall, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, Humanities, Bridgeford Street ...

Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China Correspondence to Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of ...

Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for evaluating public health ...

Correspondence to Dr Annemarie I Luik, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; a.luik{at}erasmusmc.nl Background Physical activity, ...

Background The burden of heat illness on health systems is not well described in the UK. Although the UK generally experiences mild summers, the frequency and intensity of hot weather is likely to ...

Correspondence to Dr Sandra Maureen Marquis, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V9G 1A8, Canada; smarquis{at}uvic.ca Background There is evidence in the ...