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 Professor Dongfeng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, The Medical College of Qingdao University, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266021, People's Republic ...

Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is a potentially important upstream determinant of late-life cognitive health, but a ...

This essay argues that work, and the socioeconomic class polarities it creates, plays a fundamental role in determining inequalities in the distribution of morbidity and mortality. This is by means of ...

Correspondence to Dr Hiroyuki Shimada, Department of Preventive Gerontology, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan; ...

Background Research has shown that workers in non-standard (eg, temporary and part-time) employment experience poorer health ...

Correspondence to Professor Thor Norström, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; totto{at}sofi.su.se Background How have suicide rates responded to ...

Background Uptake of some childhood immunisations in the UK is lower among those from some Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. This systematic review of qualitative research sought to ...

Correspondence to Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen 1014, Denmark; ...

The paper by Xue et al investigated the effects of the 2014 UK policy reform that extended the ‘right to request’ flexible working to all employees on their mental health and life satisfaction.1 Using ...

Background UK Biobank (UKB) is a population-based cohort study of half a million participants aged 40–69 recruited between 2006 and 2010 in England, Wales and Scotland. In order to investigate the ...

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.