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From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machines regulations on harmful gambling behaviour
Background Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) are among the most harmful forms of gambling. Their widespread availability has been linked to increased gambling activity and a rise in harmful gambling ...
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Housing and respiratory health at older ages
Background A large proportion of the population of England live in substandard housing. Previous research has suggested that poor-quality housing, particularly in terms of cold temperatures, mould, ...
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Persistent poverty and child dental caries: time-varying exposure analysis
Correspondence to Professor Takeo Fujiwara, Department of Global Health Promotion, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan; fujiwara.hlth{at}tmd.ac.jp Background This ...
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Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the UK: longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Anne McMunn, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 ...
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Under the spotlight: understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) entered the public spotlight like never before. Amidst this increased visibility, the role is deeply contested. Much of the ...
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Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research
Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result ...
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Employment predicts decreased mortality among HIV-seropositive illicit drug users in a setting of universal HIV care
1 British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada 2 Faculty of Medicine (Division of AIDS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3 Department of ...
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Interpersonal trauma exposure and cognitive development in children to age 8 years: a longitudinal study
4 Clinical Research Center, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 5 Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Environmental Health ...
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New malignancies among cancer survivors: SEER cancer registries, 1973–2000
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A glossary of policy frameworks: the many forms of ‘universalism’ and policy ‘targeting’
2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Correspondence to Dr Gemma Carey, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian ...
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Ethnic group, socioeconomic position and pregnancy outcome: a mediation model through latent class
Background Preterm birth (PTB) and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) disproportionately affect women who are Black or Asian. Structural racism produces health inequalities. Identifying latent ...