ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health is a peer-reviewed BMJ journal that publishes research on population health, epidemiology, health inequalities, environmental and social determinants, and public health policy. Its studies examine how social, economic, behavioral, and environmental factors shape patterns of disease and wellbeing, with an emphasis on evidence that can inform prevention, policy, and healthier communities.
A meta-analysis of 45 studies links short bursts of fine particulate air pollution, and months of elevated nitrogen dioxide, with higher odds of death by suicide, adding pollution to the shrinking list of modifiable risk factors researchers can act on.