Health

Medication taking in people with hip and knee osteoarthritis: An analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Dynapenic abdominal obesity as a risk factor for worse trajectories of ADL disability among older adults: ELSA cohort study

Persistent depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in older adults

Is the relationship between subjective age, depressive symptoms and activities of daily living bidirectional?

There is a lack of evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution on cognition for people with air quality-related health conditions. We propose that educational attainment, as a proxy for cognition, may increase with improved air quality. This study will explore whether asthma and seasonal allergic rhinitis, when exacerbated by acute exposure to air pollution, is associated with educational attainment.

High‐risk sexual behaviours are generally unobserved and difficult to identify. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of two risky‐behaviour measures: biomarkers for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and self‐reported data. We build an epidemiological model to assess the relative performance of biomarkers versus self‐reported data.

The Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank facilitated linkage of routinely collected health and education data, high spatial resolution pollution modelling and daily pollen measurements for 18,241 pupils in 7 cross-sectional cohorts across Cardiff city, UK, to investigate effects of air quality and respiratory health conditions on education attainment.

Dynapenic abdominal obesity increases mortality risk among English and Brazilian Older Adults: A 10-year follow-up of the ELSA and SABE

Cross-country comparisons of disability and morbidity: evidence from the Gateway to Global Aging Data

The negative consequences of long-term exposure to particulate pollution are well established but a number of studies find no effect of short-term exposure on health outcomes. The high correlation of industrial pollutants complicates the estimation of the impact of individual pollutants on health.

Our study contributes to the understanding of key drivers of stunted growth, a factor widely recognized as major impediment to human capital development.

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To mark the BBC’s coverage of the NHS’s 70th birthday in July 2018, researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Health Foundation, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust have come together for the first time, using combined expertise to shed light on some of the big questions on the NHS.