Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Layoffs in automobile manufacturing and mortality among remaining workers

Background Layoffs may affect the health of those who lose their jobs as well as those who remain employed. Existing studies ...
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Role of socioeconomic status in modifying the relationship between alcohol use and injury events: evidence from the UK Biobank

Background Alcohol consumption is a well-established risk factor for injuries, yet the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in modifying this relationship remains underexplored. This study examines how ...
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Health trade-offs of rural structural transformation: evidence from longitudinal data in Bangladesh

Objectives/background This study examines the relationship between occupational transitions out of agriculture and functional health outcomes among rural adults in Bangladesh, with a focus on gender ...
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Evidence based health promotion: recollections, reflections, and reconsiderations

1 National and Community Programmes, Department of Non-Communicable Disease prevention and Health Promotion, WHO, Geneva 2 National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, USA ...
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Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale and its relation with quality of life: a systematic review

Dr M Eriksson, Health Promotion Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Paasikivigatan 4, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland; monica.eriksson{at}folkhalsan.fi The aim of this paper is to synthesise ...
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Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study

Background This study examined the association between early parental death and children’s subsequent mental health, years of schooling, and labour-market outcomes (ie, employment and earnings) in ...
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The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study

2 Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Background Grip strength has consistently been found to predict all-cause mortality rates. However, few studies have examined ...
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Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale and the relation with health: a systematic review

Study objective: The aim of this paper is to synthesise empirical findings on the salutogenic concept sense of coherence (SOC) and examine its capacity to explain health and its dimensions. Design: ...
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Current Issue

Physical illness and changes in spousal mental health: a register-based study on Finnish couples aged 30–70 (11 November, 2025) ...
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Male involvement and maternal health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis

Correspondence to Dr Jo Leonardi-Bee, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...
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Socioeconomic status, race and COPD health outcomes

1 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, ...
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Effectiveness of providing university students with a mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress: 1-year follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

Background There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled ...