Objective To report the global, regional, and national burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) and its attributable risk factors between 1990 and 2019, by age, sex, and …

A large number of epidemiologic studies have focused on racial/ethnic differences, particularly
between blacks and whites. Because health endpoints and racial categorizations are …

Census data are widely used for assessing neighborhood socioeconomic context. Research
using census data has been inconsistent in variable choice and usually limited to single …

Background Anemia is a common disease which affects around 40% of children and 30% of
reproductive age women and can have major health consequences. The present study …

To date, few systematic reviews of observational studies have been conducted to comprehensively
evaluate the co-morbidity of intimate partner violence (IPV) and specific depression …

Background Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have involved the frequent and
extended deployment of military personnel, many of whom are married. The effect of deployment …

Background A relatively consistent body of research supports an inverse graded relationship
between socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). More recently, …

Objectives. To investigate the association between distance to the closest supermarket and
a composite measure of diet, the diet quality index for pregnancy (DQI-P) was constructed. …

A thorough, practical reference on the social patterns behind health outcomes Methods in
Social Epidemiology provides students and professionals with a comprehensive reference for …

Numerous authors have critiqued the use of race as an etiologic quantity in medical
research. Despite this criticism, the use of variables encoding racial/ethnic categorization has …