Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

is a global journal focusing on socioeconomic determinants of health and population-level interventions

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JECH is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.

JECH is a leading international journal devoted to publication of original research and reviews covering applied, methodological and theoretical issues with emphasis on studies using multidisciplinary or integrative approaches.

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JECH accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including research reports, reviews and Theory & Methods articles.

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Latest Articles

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Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

28 September 2022

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Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis

22 September 2022

Original research:

Determinants of loss to follow-up in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: a retrospective cohort study

22 September 2022

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Psychotherapy and change in mental health-related work disability: a prospective Finnish population-level register-based study with a quasi-experimental design

16 September 2022

Original research:

Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study

8 September 2022

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COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health

10 January 2022

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Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19

10 February 2022

Original research:

Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study

7 April 2022

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Uterine fibroids and incidence of depression, anxiety and self-directed violence: a cohort study

9 December 2021

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Do partnership dissolutions and living alone affect systemic chronic inflammation? A cohort study of Danish adults

10 January 2022

Editor's Choice

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Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study

9 September 2022

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10 August 2022

Theory and methods:

Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities

8 July 2022

Original research:

Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic

9 June 2022

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Measuring older people’s socioeconomic position: a scoping review of studies of self-rated health, health service and social care use

10 May 2022

Open Access Articles

Original research:

Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

28 September 2022

Original research:

Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis

22 September 2022

Original research:

Psychotherapy and change in mental health-related work disability: a prospective Finnish population-level register-based study with a quasi-experimental design

16 September 2022

Original research:

Occupational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: analysis of the UK ONS COVID-19 infection survey

9 September 2022

Original research:

Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)

9 September 2022

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Effects of increased minimum wages by unemployment rate on suicide in the USA
7 January 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities
13 June 2020

Racial inequity in fatal US police shootings, 2015–2020
27 October 2020

Suicide risk with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other new-generation antidepressants in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
8 March 2021

Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis
19 January 2021

Trends in healthy life expectancy in the age of austerity
6 June 2022

COVID-19

Original research:

Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study

9 September 2022

Original research:

Occupational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: analysis of the UK ONS COVID-19 infection survey

9 September 2022

PostScript:

Declining COVID-19 mortality risk ratios must be interpreted with caution

10 August 2022

Short report:

Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study

8 July 2022

Original research:

Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy

8 July 2022

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