Data and documentary records from past societies offer valuable and unique insights for understanding and navigating the challenges of the modern world. Public health crises such as climate change, ...

Since mental health outcomes are shaped by a complex interplay of social, economic and environmental factors, considerable attention has been devoted to determinants such as income insecurity, social ...

Background Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and ...

Background Governments are scaling up investment in housing improvements to meet net zero targets. These improvements are likely to reduce emergency hospital admissions but evidence on the health and ...

Background Marginalisation has been proposed as a risk factor for the development of opioid use disorder (OUD), an important ...

While econometrics and statistics drove modern quasi-experimental methods for causal inference in policy evaluation, public health frequently adopts such tools to evaluate health interventions when ...

Background Pre-COVID-19 pandemic evidence suggests that the UK’s introduction of Universal Credit (UC) was associated with a deterioration in mental health. Given pandemic-related changes to the ...

Manoukian and colleagues provide new longitudinal evidence that engagement with community-led organisations (CLOs) is associated with better mental well-being and there are dose–response relationships ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic raised global concerns that disruptions to healthcare services might delay cancer diagnosis and treatment in children, with potential consequences for survival. Yet, ...

Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs), but it is unclear whether these associations are causal and involve any mediators. Methods We carried out ...

Letter: A novel population data-driven approach to quantifying feasibility of recruitment during the study planning stage: lessons learnt from an e-cigarette pilot study (6 May, 2026) ...

Background Stressful life events are recognised determinants of mental health, yet their effects in later life remain unclear. Reflecting increasing longevity, our study examined links between ...