Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Associations between adverse childhood experiences and cardiometabolic health in later adulthood in Colombia

Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before a child reaches the age of 15 with ...
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Ethnic inequalities in limiting health and self-reported health in later life revisited

Correspondence to Professor Maria Evandrou, Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; ...
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Low birth weight persists in South Asian babies born in England and Wales regardless of maternal country of birth. Slow pace of acculturation, physiological constraint or both ...

Background The mean birth weight of offspring of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani women tends to be among the lowest of any ethnic groups regardless of country of residence. However, it is unclear ...
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Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...
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A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

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.
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Impact of heat on mortality in 15 European cities: attributable deaths under different weather scenarios

Background High ambient summer temperatures have been shown to influence daily mortality in cities across Europe. Quantification of the population mortality burden attributable to heat is crucial to ...
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Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data

Observational studies aiming to estimate causal effects often rely on conceptual frameworks that are unfamiliar to many researchers and practitioners. We provide a clear, structured overview of key ...
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Socioeconomic inequality in recovery from poor physical and mental health in mid-life and early old age: prospective Whitehall II cohort study

Background Few studies have examined the influence of socioeconomic status on recovery from poor physical and mental health. Methods Prospective study with four consecutive periods of follow-up ...
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Six steps in quality intervention development (6SQuID)

3 MRC/CSO Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Professor Daniel Wight, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, ...
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Assessing health impact assessment: multidisciplinary and international perspectives

5 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, NY, USA Correspondence to: Professor N Krieger, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington ...
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OP59 Ultra-processed food consumption in South Asia: quantification of regional variation in intakes and the assessment of their sociodemographic correlates. Findings from the ...

4 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka 5 Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka 6 Centre ...