Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Spousal epidemiology: a conceptual framework for interdependent health in couples

Epidemiology has traditionally treated individuals as independent units, potentially overlooking relational dynamics that ...
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Wider income gaps, wider waistbands? An ecological study of obesity and income inequality

2 Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK 3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK 4 International Obesity TaskForce, UK ...
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The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa

Objectives: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and ...
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Interactions between environmental pollutants and dietary nutrients: current evidence and implications in epidemiological research

Environmental pollutants and nutrients may be present in the same foodstuffs or dietary patterns; share internal mechanisms of transport, metabolism and cellular uptake; or target the same molecular ...
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Finding the real case-fatality rate of H5N1 avian influenza

Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Background: Accurate estimation of the case-fatality (CF) rate, or the proportion of cases ...
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Effectiveness of comprehensive social support interventions among elderly patients with tuberculosis in communities in China: a community-based trial

Correspondence to Dr Yihua Xu, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong ...
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Home cooking, cooking skills and dementia requiring long-term care: a population-based cohort study in Japan

Background People have come to rely on restaurants and takeaway foods, and less on cooking at home. We examined the association between home cooking and dementia incidence, ascertained through ...
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Strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in the eyes of some Hong Kong Chinese

OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese towards the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study of subjects' opinions ...
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Formal education and back pain: a review

OBJECTIVES To summarise the scientific evidence on the relation between educational status and measures of the frequency and the consequences of back pain and of the outcomes of interventions among ...
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Variations in neonatal mortality, infant mortality, preterm birth and birth weight in England and Wales according to ethnicity and maternal country or region of birth: an ...

Background Risks of adverse birth outcomes in England and Wales are relatively low but vary across ethnic groups. We aimed to explore the role of mother’s country of birth on birth outcomes across ...
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Twenty years of social capital and health research: a glossary

Correspondence to Dr S Moore, Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 915 Greene St. (Discovery 1), Rm. 529, USC, Columbia ...
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Outreach and improved access to specialist services for indigenous people in remote Australia: the requirements for sustainability

1 Flinders University Northern Territory Clinical School and Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Disease Control, NT Department of Health and ...