BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong
relationships between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links …

Background Material, psychosocial and behavioural factors are important explanatory
pathways for socioeconomic inequalities in health. The aim of this systematic review was to …

Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem and at 48%, Karamoja in
North-Eastern Uganda has the lowest treatment success rate nationally. Addressing the …

Background Psychopathology has been long recognized as a fluctuating process with
various expressions over time, which can only be properly understood if we follow …

Significant reductions in mortality are reflected in strong increases in life expectancy
particularly in industrialized countries. Previous analyses relate these improvements …

Health differences which correspond to socioeconomic status (SES) can be attributed to
three causal mechanisms: SES affects health (social causation), health affects SES (health …

Field studies of natural mammal populations present powerful opportunities to investigate
the determinants of health and aging using fine-grained observations of known individuals …

Introduction This study examined the health and well-being of US veterans during the first
year after military service and tested several hypotheses regarding differences in veterans' …

This study examines whether economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic is
deleteriously associated with psychological distress and self-rated health. A social causation …

Background Adults with intellectual disability have poorer health than their non-disabled
peers. However, little is known about the health of the 'hidden majority'of adults with …