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Research Article

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration: social medicine, community medicine, and health economics. (1 March, 1979)
• One economist's view of social medicine. (1 March, 1979)

  A Williams
• Health economics and social medicine: some impressions of an epidemiologist. (1 March, 1979)

  R M Acheson
• Measurement of costs and benefits in health and health services. (1 March, 1979)

  K G Wright
• Theories and measurement in disability. (1 March, 1979)

  R G Williams
• Economic approaches to alternative patterns of health care. (1 March, 1979)

  G H Mooney
• Resources and decisions in clinical radiology. (1 March, 1979)

  T Sherwood
• Prevention of disease in the tropics: questions in health economics. (1 March, 1979)

  D J Bradley
• The sex differential in ischaemic heart disease: trends by social class 1931 to 1971. (1 March, 1979)

  M L Halliday, T W Anderson
• Contrasting effects of maternal fertility and birth rank on the occurrence of neural tube defects. (1 March, 1979)

  J M Elwood, M L McBride
• The influence of a premarital conception and various obstetric complications on subsequent prenatal health behaviour. (1 March, 1979)

  J B McKinlay, S M McKinlay
• Characteristics of elderly people admitted to hospital, Part III homes, and sheltered housing. (1 March, 1979)

  J R Alexander, A Eldon
• Distance as an influence on demand in general practice. (1 March, 1979)

  D Parkin
• A comparison of two proxy measures for morbidity. (1 March, 1979)

  R J Gandy
• Some insights into Miettinen's multivariate confounder score approach to case-control study analysis. (1 March, 1979)

  M C Pike, J Anderson, N Day