Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Commonly cited approaches to reducing health inequalities: a call for more clarity around their definition and underlying assumptions

Addressing health inequalities is an international priority. Various approaches have gained popularity in the academic ...
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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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Causal mediation approaches for understanding pathways to inequalities and policy entry points: examples from early years health and development

The reduction of health inequalities has been a priority of researchers, decision-makers and practitioners for many years. Advances in causal mediation analysis offer great promise for identifying ...
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Studying adolescent social isolation in school-based social networks: implications for health research

Adolescent peer relationships matter profoundly for mental and physical health.1 2 Social isolation from peers (ie, a lack of connection) is associated with increased risk of mental health problems ...
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Assessing the relationship between community resilience and health outcomes: an observational local-authority level study in England

Background Community resilience is a relevant concept in public health, but its empirical relationship with health outcomes remains underexplored. This study examines whether a Community Resilience ...
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Impact of theatre interventions on mental health: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

Background Theatre interventions such as psychodrama are increasingly being used to help individuals with mental health conditions. Previous findings provided mixed results on the impact of theatre ...
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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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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - our story 9 June 2025 Meet Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi, the joint Editors-in-chief for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and hear ...
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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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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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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.