Objective Tuberculosis (TB) stigma is a critical barrier to timely diagnosis and treatment, yet few studies have quantified ...

Objectives Same-sex marriage legalisation improves mental health among sexual and gender minority (SGM) people. In Japan, ...

Background Hearing loss (HL) imposes a substantial burden on families and society and is the largest modifiable risk factor ...

Background Research has yielded contradictory results regarding differences in physical fitness and cardiometabolic risk ...

Objectives Public health students face academic and training pressures as well as challenges arising from patient and community expectations, which may adversely affect their quality of life (QoL) and ...

Introduction Congenital malformations (CMs) are the leading cause of infant mortality. Still, the aetiology remains unknown in 70% of cases. The most accepted hypothesis is that hereditary and ...

Objectives To explore priorities, barriers to and experiences of palliative and end-of-life care from the perspectives of people living with HIV. Design Cross-sectional online survey conducted in the ...

Introduction Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are a vulnerable population disproportionately affected by mental health disorders due to the combined burden of chronic ...

Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the factors associated with care modality among older adults with chronic disease and disability in rural China. We hypothesised that marital status, family ...

Objectives To examine trends in the frequency and costs of emergency hospital admissions in acute wards for mental health conditions among children and young people in England between 2012 and 2022 ...

Design Analyst blinded, parallel, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (RCT). Participants People with confirmed diagnoses of cancer (head and neck, skin or colorectal) attending follow-up ...

Objectives To determine the relationship between the reduction in salt intake that occurred in England, and blood pressure (BP), as well as mortality from stroke and ischaemic heart disease (IHD).