Epidemiology has traditionally treated individuals as independent units, potentially overlooking relational dynamics that ...

Data and documentary records from past societies offer valuable and unique insights for understanding and navigating the challenges of the modern world. Public health crises such as climate change, ...

Since mental health outcomes are shaped by a complex interplay of social, economic and environmental factors, considerable attention has been devoted to determinants such as income insecurity, social ...

Background Governments are scaling up investment in housing improvements to meet net zero targets. These improvements are likely to reduce emergency hospital admissions but evidence on the health and ...

Background Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and ...

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While econometrics and statistics drove modern quasi-experimental methods for causal inference in policy evaluation, public health frequently adopts such tools to evaluate health interventions when ...

Background Pre-COVID-19 pandemic evidence suggests that the UK’s introduction of Universal Credit (UC) was associated with a deterioration in mental health. Given pandemic-related changes to the ...

Manoukian and colleagues provide new longitudinal evidence that engagement with community-led organisations (CLOs) is associated with better mental well-being and there are dose–response relationships ...

Background Religious and faith-based institutions play a critical role in the social infrastructure that supports population health. While prior research has focused largely on individual religious ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic raised global concerns that disruptions to healthcare services might delay cancer diagnosis and treatment in children, with potential consequences for survival. Yet, ...

Background Preterm birth is a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Although SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy is proved to increase the risk of preterm birth, existing evidence ...