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From market shocks to metabolic shocks: how acute workplace stress affects cardiometabolic biomarkers in employees

Background Stress affects cardiometabolic health, but evidence linking objective, occupation-specific stressors to individual ...
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Higher pensions, better health? A longitudinal analysis of pension generosity and health in East and West Germany

Background Amidst rapidly ageing European populations there is a growing need to develop pension systems that help support ...
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County sanctuary policies and birthweight among immigrant birthing people across multilevel immigration policy climates in the United States, 2012–2020: a repeat cro…

Background County governments are increasingly active in immigration-related policymaking, yet the impact of these policies ...
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Associations of food security and food assistance with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among postmenopausal women from the women’s health initiative

Background Prior research indicates that food insecurity is negatively associated with cardiometabolic health and plays a ...
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Participatory Systems Mapping Design Framework: development of a deliberative tool to support methodological advancements in population health research

Participatory systems mapping methods are increasingly used to explore complex population health challenges by involving diverse stakeholders in co-producing causal diagrams. However, the field lacks ...
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Socioeconomic position and the risk of brain tumour: a Swedish national population-based cohort study

Background The aim was to investigate associations between different measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) and incidence of brain tumours (glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma) in a nationwide ...
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Link between tooth loss and health expectancy: findings from a prospective Singaporean population-based cohort study of older adults

Background We evaluated the impact of the number of teeth on health expectancy, measured as years of life without limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and physical function, among adults ...
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Secular trends in primary care utilisation for mental health problems: a Norwegian register-based population-wide study

We read with great interest the recent study by Beck et al titled ‘Secular trends in primary care utilisation for mental health problems: a Norwegian register-based population-wide study’.1 The ...
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Peer status in school and adult disease risk: a 30-year follow-up study of disease-specific morbidity in a Stockholm cohort

Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Y Almquist, Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm ...
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Associations of neighbourhood greenness with physical and mental health: do walking, social coherence and local social interaction explain the relationships?

Background: Studies have shown associations between health indices and access to “green” environments but the underlying mechanisms of this association are not clear. Objectives: To examine ...
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General practitioners with a special interest in public health; at last a way to deliver public health in primary care

Correspondence to: Dr S Bradley Salford Primary Care Trust, St James’s House, Pendleton Way, Salford M6 5 FW, England; sally.bradley3btinternet.com Primary care and public health both work to improve ...
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Attempted suicide, psychological health and exposure to harassment among Japanese homosexual, bisexual or other men questioning their sexual orientation recruited via the internet

Objective: To investigate the rates of attempted suicide and its association with psychological distress, experiences of bullying and verbal harassment, and demographic characteristics among Japanese ...