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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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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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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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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Ethnic differences in human papillomavirus awareness and vaccine acceptability

Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK Correspondence to Dr L Marlow, Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public ...
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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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Current Issue

Letter: Cyber harassment of physicians as an emerging global health threat: embedding social work in routine care (8 September, 2025) ...
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Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain ‘social distancing’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles

9 NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Psychological Medicine, Weston Education Centre, King’s College London, London, UK Correspondence to ...
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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, ...