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Depression and anxiety in people with inflammatory bowel disease

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine whether depression or anxiety co-occurs with ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn's disease (CD) more often than expected by chance, and, if so, whether the mental disorders ...
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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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Equity of access to health care: outlining the foundations for action

The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based ...
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10-year mortality among first-time mothers involved in family court care proceedings in England: cohort study using linked administrative hospital, mortality and family c…

Background Family court care proceedings are instigated to remove children at risk of harm from parental care. Limited ...
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‘Nothing can be done until everything is done’: the use of complexity arguments by food, beverage, alcohol and gambling industries

Background Corporations use a range of strategies to dispute their role in causing public health harms and to limit the scope of effective public health interventions. This is well documented in ...
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Dog ownership supports the maintenance of physical activity during poor weather in older English adults: cross-sectional results from the EPIC Norfolk cohort

Correspondence to Yu-Tzu Wu, REACH: The Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health, Department of Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Washington ...
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Intersectional inequalities in self-rated health in Germany across sex/gender, migration, education and income: a cross-sectional study

Background Health inequalities by sex/gender, migration, education and income persist across Europe, yet ...
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Home cooking, cooking skills and dementia requiring long-term care: a population-based cohort study in Japan

Background People have come to rely on restaurants and takeaway foods, and less on cooking at home. We examined the association between home cooking and dementia incidence, ascertained through ...
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Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...
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Fruit and vegetable consumption and all-cause, cancer and CVD mortality: analysis of Health Survey for England data

Correspondence to Dr Oyinlola Oyebode, Health and Social Surveys Research Group, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL (University College London), 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, ...
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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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Sensitive life-stage periods and genetic susceptibility in the association between air pollution and ischaemic stroke risk: a Bayesian life-course analysis

2 The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China 3 Guangdong Clinical Research Academy of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China Background Air pollution ...