Introduction This study examined the impact of the expansion, implemented in July 2014, of Korea’s tax-financed ...

Background The burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has increased greatly. Primary prevention of CVD has been shown to work in developed countries, and is ...

Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the ...

Correspondence to You-Lin Qiao, National Cancer Center/ National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/ Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing ...

Background Studies on associations between urban green space and mental health have yielded mixed results. This study examines associations of green space exposures with subjective health and ...

Background Research to improve prehospital treatment and care requires the participation of clinical and managerial staff from ambulance services to test interventions and collect research data.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The authors investigated whether patients who have survived an acute episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (PUB) have an excess long term all cause mortality compared with the general ...

The Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr C R Titaley, School of Public Health, Room 129A, Edward Ford Building (A27), University ...

Correspondence to Aranka Ballering, University Medical Centre Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center for Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, University of Groningen, Groningen 9700 AB, The ...

Study objective and Setting: To develop a computer model, using a geographical information system (GIS), to quantify potential health effects of air pollution from a new energy from waste facility on ...

1 Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, ...

Correspondence to Dr Gabriel Shapiro, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 16A, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A2; ...