Background It is unclear which weather parameters effect the motion-sensor-based measurement of physical activity in terms of walking duration in older people. Methods Between March 2009 and April ...

Correspondence to Dr Paul SF Yip, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention and Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, ...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is frequently adopted for creating socioeconomic proxies in order to investigate the independent effects of wealth on disease status. The guidelines and methods for ...

Correspondence to Claire Robinson, Earth Open Source, 2nd Floor 145-157, St John Street, London EC1V 4PY, UK; claire.robinson{at}earthopensource.org In September 2012 Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, a ...

Background Bone loss is a major public health concern with large proportions of older women experiencing osteoporotic fractures. Previous research has established a relationship between psychosocial ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Correspondence to Dr Gemma Carey, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian ...

Background Actual or perceived status, such as housing tenure, may impact on health through stress-inducing social comparisons. Studies of how status change impacts mental health change are rare but ...

Department of Clinical Sciences, Campus de Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Background: Italy was the first large country to ban smoking in all indoor public places, including ...

Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the ...