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While econometrics and statistics drove modern quasi-experimental methods for causal inference in policy evaluation, public ...

Background Pre-COVID-19 pandemic evidence suggests that the UK’s introduction of Universal Credit (UC) was associated with a ...

Background Variation in primary care quality across social groups contributes to health inequalities. We examined achievement rates for quality-of-care indicators among patients attending primary care ...

Manoukian and colleagues provide new longitudinal evidence that engagement with community-led organisations (CLOs) is associated with better mental well-being and there are dose–response relationships ...

Background We evaluated the impact of the number of teeth on health expectancy, measured as years of life without limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and physical function, among adults ...

Public health scholarship is shaped by an evidence hierarchy that places systematic reviews of experimental and quasi-experimental studies at the top. This approach is invaluable for isolating the ...

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 ...

1 West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2 West China Research Center for Rural Health Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China ...

3 State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China, Beijing, ...

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Background Ethnicity data are essential for understanding health inequalities yet incomplete data can bias analyses and undermine representation. Reporting guidelines recommend that studies report how ...