An epidemic often begins as a whisper—in barnyards, wetlands or milking parlours—long before its roar reaches emergency briefings and policy halls. As seen with H5N1 in early 2025, dismissing these ...

Background People-centred initiatives to create and retain local wealth, such as Community Wealth Building (CWB), have potential to stimulate regional economic regeneration that addresses economic ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is unclear. This study aimed ...

7 Union Hospital, Tong-ji Medical College, Hua-zhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China 8 Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, China 9 Second ...

4 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London School of Social Science and Public Policy, London, UK Correspondence to M Schuring, Department of Public Health, Erasmus ...

Correspondence to Dr Emily Long, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK; emily.long{at}glasgow.ac.uk This essay examines key aspects of social ...

Background The association between socioeconomic disadvantage (low education and/or income) and head and neck cancer is well established, with smoking and alcohol consumption explaining up to ...

Background Previous study revealed that social isolation and loneliness are associated with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the long-term effects of social isolation and loneliness ...

Background Growing up with parental alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. This study investigated the risk of mood disorders and of anxiety disorders in the adult ...

Correspondence to Dr Mari Kajiwara Saito, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; mari.kajiwara{at}lshtm.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Dr Milagros A Ruiz, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; m.a.ruiz{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Social cohesion has a ...