Background Falls are a significant cause of morbidity after stroke. The aim of this review was to identify, critically appraise and summarise risk prediction models for the occurrence of falling after ...

4 Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Departmental Section of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Background Depression, ...

This narrative review summarises recently published epidemiological and in vivo experimental studies on exposure to environmental chemicals and their potential role in the development of type 1 ...

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Study objective: To assess the secondary health impacts of a traffic calming scheme on a community. Methods: Prospective cohort study of a randomly selected sample of the local community using postal ...

Background The WHO recommends ≥150 min/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for older adults, while the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare suggests ≥6000 steps/day.

3 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to Jennie Connor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 913 ...

3 Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea 4 Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea ...

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence ...

Background This paper aims to assess whether 7-year-olds’ physical activity is associated with family and area-level measures of the physical and socioeconomic environments. Methods We analysed the ...

Indoor environments can influence human environmental chemical exposures and, ultimately, public health. Furniture, electronics, personal care and cleaning products, floor coverings and other consumer ...

The world is increasingly shaped by powerful global forces, many of which have consequences for human health and the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health are increasingly ...