This commentary is a brief response to Nir Eyal’s argument that health policies should not make healthy behaviour a condition or prerequisite in order to access healthcare as it could result in the people who need healthcare the most not being able to access healthcare. While in general agreement due to the shared concern for equity, I argue that making health behaviour a condition to accessing...

: The long-term effects of behaviour and environmental exposures, particularly during childhood, on health outcomes are well documented. Particularly thought provoking is the notion that exposures to different social environments have a long-lasting impact on human physical health. However, the mechanisms mediating the effects of the environment are still unclear. In the last decade, the main f...

U nderstanding the emergence of sexual reproduction has been one of nature’s long-standing mysteries that even now is only partially understood. There is a clear distinction between the reason sex evolved in the first place in early eukaryotes—and even before that in prokaryotes—and why it has been so stubbornly maintained in virtually all higher species. After all, asexual reproduction is supe...

EDITORIAL HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR Human behaviour is an important variable affecting human health Though it was a neglected area till late, recently growing interest of scientists in the biobehavioural science has given immense impetus to this discipline. Increasing industrialisation, changing social norms, changes in cultural values have created a major burden over the human behavioural adaptive ...