Data and documentary records from past societies offer valuable and unique insights for understanding and navigating the challenges of the modern world. Public health crises such as climate change, ...

Since mental health outcomes are shaped by a complex interplay of social, economic and environmental factors, considerable attention has been devoted to determinants such as income insecurity, social ...

Background Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and ...

Background Governments are scaling up investment in housing improvements to meet net zero targets. These improvements are likely to reduce emergency hospital admissions but evidence on the health and ...

Background Marginalisation has been proposed as a risk factor for the development of opioid use disorder (OUD), an important ...

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Background Pre-COVID-19 pandemic evidence suggests that the UK’s introduction of Universal Credit (UC) was associated with a deterioration in mental health. Given pandemic-related changes to the ...

Introduction Homelessness is a structural determinant of health associated with elevated morbidity and healthcare utilisation. Evidence remains limited on how homelessness relates to alcohol-related ...

The study by the authors investigates whether acute workplace stress induces rapid cardiometabolic changes by exploiting an innovative natural experiment: daily stock market fluctuations experienced ...

Background Mortality from alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) in England rose after the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing reports lack data on prior healthcare use, which is key to understanding care ...

Background Children in households affected by adult substance misuse face intersecting educational risks. While associations between household adversity and school disengagement are documented, ...

Letter: A novel population data-driven approach to quantifying feasibility of recruitment during the study planning stage: lessons learnt from an e-cigarette pilot study (6 May, 2026) ...