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Research Article

• Cohort analysis of mortality rates as an historical or narrative technique. (1 April, 1996)

  R A Case
• An appreciation of "Cohort analysis of mortality rates as an historical or narrative technique" (RAM Case) (1 April, 1996)

  C Osmond
• Research on injury prevention: time for an international agenda? (1 April, 1996)

  D H Stone
• Effect of diet and physical exercise intervention programmes on coronary heart disease risk in smoking and non-smoking men in Sweden. (1 April, 1996)

  G K Näslund, M Fredrikson, M L Hellénius, U de Faire
• Ethnic differences in mortality from cardiovascular disease in the UK: do they persist in people with diabetes? (1 April, 1996)

  N Chaturvedi, J H Fuller
• Prevalence of self reported stroke in a population in northern England. (1 April, 1996)

  J M Geddes, J Fear, A Tennant, A Pickering, M Hillman, M A Chamberlain
• Risk factor analysis of data from assessment clinics in the UK breast screening programme: a case-control study in Portsmouth and Southampton. (1 April, 1996)

  E Thomas, J Cade, A Vail
• The effects of illness on quality of life: findings from a survey of households in Great Britain. (1 April, 1996)

  A Bowling
• The prediction of different experiences of longterm illness: a longitudinal approach in Sweden. (1 April, 1996)

  N Blank, F Diderichsen
• Child pedestrian injury rates: the importance of "exposure to risk" relating to socioeconomic and ethnic differences, in Auckland, New Zealand. (1 April, 1996)

  I Roberts, R Norton, B Taua
• Musculoskeletal pain and smoking in Norway. (1 April, 1996)

  S Brage, T Bjerkedal
• Importance of participation rate in sampling of data in population based studies, with special reference to bone mass in Sweden. (1 April, 1996)

  H Düppe, P Gärdsell, B S Hanson, O Johnell, B E Nilsson
• Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in an HIV-epidemic area in Thailand. (1 April, 1996)

  P Sawanpanyalert, S Boonmar, T Maeda, Y Matsuura, T Miyamura
• Hand searching the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health as part of th Cochrane Collaboration. (1 April, 1996)

  R Milne, M Thorogood
• Prioritising elective care: a cost utility analysis of orthopaedics in the north west of England. (1 April, 1996)

  M James, S St Leger, K V Rowsell
• Cost effectiveness and equity of a community based cardiovascular disease prevention programme in Norsjö, Sweden. (1 April, 1996)

  L Lindholm, M Rosén, L Weinehall, K Asplund
• Using length of stay and inactive days in the hospital to assess appropriateness of utilisation in Barcelona, Spain. (1 April, 1996)

  J Alonso, A Muñoz, J M Antó
• A comparison of three measures of perceived distress: results from a study of angina patients in general practice in Northern Ireland. (1 April, 1996)

  C O'Neill, C Normand, M Cupples, A McKnight
• Hospital volume, calendar age, and short term outcomes in patients undergoing repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: the Ontario experience, 1988-92. (1 April, 1996)

  S W Wen, M Simunovic, J I Williams, K W Johnston, C D Naylor
• Estimating life expectancy using an age-cohort model in Taiwan. (1 April, 1996)

  W C Lee, R L Hsieh
• Agreement between the Takeda UA-731 automatic blood pressure measuring device and the manual mercury sphygmomanometer: an assessment under field conditions in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (1 April, 1996)

  C Cartwright, N Unwin, P Stephenson
• Two proxies for morbidity in the 1991 UK census: permanent sickness and limiting long term illness. (1 April, 1996)

  G Scrivener, D C Lloyd
• Causes of adult female mortality in Al Ain district, United Arab Emirates. (1 April, 1996)

  C O Oyejide, A G Shalabi, M Benjawi, H Al-Hosani
• Caesarian sections in Guadalajara, Mexico: sociodemographic risk factors. (1 April, 1996)

  G J Gonzalez-Perez, M G Vega-Lopez
• Geographical variation in coronary revascularisation rates. (1 April, 1996)

  L K Smith
• Why is the sex ratio falling in England and Wales? (1 April, 1996)

  H O Dickinson, L Parker
• Comparing measures of variation. (1 April, 1996)

  J Newton, V Seagroatt, M Goldacre