Increasingly recognized as a distinct form of childhood maltreatment, children's exposure to
intimate partner violence (IPV) has been shown to be associated with an array of negative …

Background The social meanings, settings and habitual nature of health‐related activities
and their integration into our daily lives are often overlooked in quantitative public health …

This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data
sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used …

Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of
health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical …

Background and Aim Many multilevel logistic regression analyses of “neighbourhood and
health” focus on interpreting measures of associations (eg, odds ratio, OR). In contrast …

The study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as
reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks how far we should go to achieve these …

The field of public health has increasingly promoted a social ecological approach to health,
shifting from an individual, biomedical paradigm to a recognition of social and structural …

Socioeconomic, ethnic and gender disparities in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(COPD) risk are well established but no studies have applied multilevel analysis of …

Background Child maltreatment and eating disorders are significant public health problems.
Yet, to date, research has focused on the role of child physical and sexual abuse in eating …

This paper examines the way in which sociology and biology continue to struggle to
understand why urban life creates high levels of mental disorder. The movement of the world …