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Abstract Objective To determine whether men who grew slowly in utero or during infancy are more vulnerable to the later effects of poor living conditions on coronary heart disease. Design [...]

Health for AD is not just a slogan but a way of thinking about improving health for the whole population. At its heart is equity, which is about fairness and [...]

Abstract Objective - To investigate the association between cause specific morbidity and deprivation in order to inform the debates on inequalities in health and health services resource allocation. Design - [...]

Introduction An awareness of the relation between poverty and the risk of mortality is as old as epidemiology itself, but it was given new emphasis by the publication of the [...]

Tuberculosis has been the subject of much concern in recent years. Notifications have increased, inadequacies in surveillance revealed, and policies for BCG immunisation and screening of immigrants questioned. Until recently […]

Abstract Objective--To examine whether the historical link between tuberculosis and poverty still exists. Design--Retrospective study examining the notifications of all forms of tuberculosis by council ward over a six year [...]

Abstract Objective To identify socioeconomic risk factors for first presentation advanced glaucomatous visual field loss. Design Hospital based case-control study with prospective identification of patients. Setting Three hospital eye departments. [...]

Abstract Objectives To compare the extent to which late 20th century patterns of mortality in London are predicted by contemporary patterns of poverty and by late 19th century patterns of [...]

Mortality from stomach cancer and stroke shows an international correlation, consistent inverse socioeconomic gradients, a particular dependence on socioeconomic circumstances in childhood,[1] and parallel patterns of decline in most industrialised […]

Summary points Income inequality has generally been associated with differences in health A psychosocial interpretation of health inequalities, in terms of perceptions of relative disadvantage and the psychological consequences of [...]

The government's introduction of policies to tackle poverty and social exclusion has had little impact, and the trend towards worsening income and health inequalities is continuing, according to a new [...]

Abstract Objective To examine the effect of ethnicity on the relation between tuberculosis and deprivation. Design Retrospective ecological study comparing incidence of tuberculosis in white and south Asian residents of [...]

Abstract Objectives To investigate the association between suicide and area based measures of deprivation and social fragmentation. Design Ecological study. Setting 633 parliamentary constituencies of Great Britain as defined in [...]

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X linked disorder affecting approximately 1 in 3500 male live births. The incidence remains stable in most populations, maintained by a high rate of new [...]

A woman from Sierra Leone has a one in seven chance of dying as a direct result of pregnancy. In Britain it is one in 6000. It is the biggest [...]

Mortality from ischaemic heart disease is higher in Scotland than in most developed countries.(1) Comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction, incorporating exercise training and lifestyle counselling. can reduce mortality and [...]

The world's biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill health and suffering across the globe is listed almost at the end of the International Classification of Diseases. It is [...]

Notifications of tuberculosis have increased in England and Wales over the past few years, as in other European countries and the United States.[1-3] An estimated 8000 extra cases occurred between […]

Above all, a nation cannot last as a money-making mob: it cannot with impunity,--it cannot with existence,--go on despising literature, despising science, despising art, despising nature, despising compassion, and concentrating [...]

Losing Out Unemployment begets poverty, which begets ill health and premature death. Any lingering doubts about this genealogy were settled in England and Wales by a longitudinal study of mortality [...]

Call for a plan to implement the message of the Acheson report As authors of the Black report, we welcome the report of the independent inquiry into inequalities in health [...]

Demands for a national strategy to reduce coronary disease in Britain's poor population, made last week by the National Heart Forum, are to test further the government's commitment to tackling [...]