This essay traces the two-decade development of multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy ...

Background Historical redlining, carried out by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), assigned US neighbourhoods grades A ...

Background Socio-spatial health inequalities are increasing in England, as in many other high-income countries. While most ...

Background Pre-COVID-19 pandemic evidence suggests that the UK’s introduction of Universal Credit (UC) was associated with a ...

While econometrics and statistics drove modern quasi-experimental methods for causal inference in policy evaluation, public ...

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Background This study aimed to explore the impact of social activity frequency on mid- and long-term overall survival in older Chinese people. Methods The association between social activity frequency ...

Background and objectives Imprisoned women have higher rates of abnormalities at cervical screening and some studies suggest that cervical cancer is the most common cancer in this population. The aim ...

Background There are large inequalities in levels of physical activity in the UK, and this is an important determinant of health inequalities. Little is known about the effectiveness of community-wide ...

Background: This article examines the multifaceted structures and complex operations of the World Health Organization and its regional offices; it also reassesses the form and the workings of the ...

Background Relative deprivation induced by social comparisons is hypothesised to deleteriously affect health. Previous work has proposed the index as a measure of relative deprivation; however, the ...

Background Uptake of some childhood immunisations in the UK is lower among those from some Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. This systematic review of qualitative research sought to ...