Background: Excessive salt consumption is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), especially through increased blood pressure. In Brazil, the average salt intake is almost twice the international recommendations, and the current population-level salt reduction policies...

Extracurricular activity participation is associated with positive academic, health, and behavioural outcomes for adolescents, but these findings may reflect unobserved confounding rather than participation effects. To address this, we modelled the effects of participation in three kinds of...

Teen mothers experience disadvantage on a wide range of outcomes. However, previous research is equivocal with respect to possible long-term mental health consequences of teen motherhood and has not adequately considered the possibility that effects on mental health may be heterogeneous. Drawing...

This essay addresses the impacts of electronic tenancy databases upon social relations in the field of private rental tenancy in Australia. Insights arise from research carried out, in 2002-3, in the eastern, mainland states of Australia that included interviews with tenants and property...