Background Negative associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health are well documented. However, ...

Background This study examined the independent effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social support on ...

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children’s lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in ...

Background The Deep End project in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) was set up in 2020 to tackle health inequalities in general practice in the most deprived areas of the North East of England.

Background From their Scottish origins in 2009, Deep End GP networks are being established all over the UK and further afield in Ireland and Australia. Formed of primary care practitioners in areas of ...

Exponential growth is difficult for people to grasp. But that is what has happened to sales of Albert Camus’s The Plague, first published in 1947. According to Jacqueline Rose, it is ‘an upsurge ...

Background Unpaid labour as a determinant of health is under-researched, especially in low- and middle-income countries where women bear a disproportionate load of unpaid labour. Moreover, the double ...

Background Social prescribing (SP) enables healthcare professionals to link patients with non-medical interventions available in the community to address underlying socioeconomic and behavioural ...

Too much data? Too much information? The COVID-19 pandemic has made the case. The WHO coined the term ‘infodemic’ to describe the issue of overabundance of information, including misinformation, ...

Community mobilisation interventions have been used to promote health in many low-income and middle-income settings. They frequently involve collective action to address shared determinants of ...

Objective: To determine the incidence and incidence density of adverse events (AEs) in Spanish hospitals (including the pre-hospitalisation period). Method: Retrospective cohort study. Results: The ...