Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - our story 9 June 2025 Meet Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi, the joint Editors-in-chief for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and hear ...

Correspondence to Dr Esther García-Esquinas, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Calle del Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain; ...

Correspondence to Professor Lawrie Elliott, School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK; l.elliott{at}napier.ac.uk This study ...

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, ...

Background Some effective public health interventions may increase inequalities by disproportionately benefiting less disadvantaged groups (‘intervention-generated inequalities’ or IGIs). There is a ...

Introduction Accounting for missing data by imputing or weighting conditional on covariates relies on the variable with missingness being observed at least some of the time for all unique covariate ...

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.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down ...

Disadvantaged groups are often defined by characteristics such as income or ethnicity. Reducing health disparities by directly manipulating such exposures may be infeasible. Instead, interventions can ...

NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), Utrecht, The Netherlands Background: As a result of increasing urbanisation, people face the prospect of living in environments with few ...

Background Housing is a critical social determinant of health for migrant and refugee populations in high-income countries; however, the causal pathways linking housing affordability to health ...

Background While C-section (CS) deliveries exhibit significant socioeconomic inequalities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the extent and underlying drivers of these inequalities remain ...