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Research Article

• Abortion, breast cancer, and impact factors--in this number and the last. (1 December, 1996)

  S Donnan
• The bibliographic "impact factor" of the Institute for Scientific Information: how relevant is it really for public health journals? (1 December, 1996)

  M Porta
• Research into purchasing health care: time to face the challenge. (1 December, 1996)

  G de Wildt, R Bhopal, M Lavender
• Studies on infant mortality--Part II. Social aetiology of stillbirths and infant deaths in county boroughs of England and Wales. (1 December, 1996)

  B Woolf
• An appreciation of 'Studies on infant mortality' by Barnet Woolf. (1 December, 1996)

  D J Barker
• Smoking habits and risk of fatal stroke: 18 years follow up of the Oslo Study. (1 December, 1996)

  L L Håheim, I Holme, I Hjermann, P Leren
• The sociodemographic pattern of tobacco cessation in the 1980s: results from a panel study of living condition surveys in Sweden. (1 December, 1996)

  P Tillgren, B J Haglund, M Lundberg, A Romelsjö
• Respiratory health effects of industrial air pollution: a study in east Lancashire, UK. (1 December, 1996)

  S E Ginns, A C Gatrell
• The influence of alcohol consumption on worldwide trends in mortality from upper aerodigestive tract cancers in men. (1 December, 1996)

  G J Macfarlane, T V Macfarlane, A B Lowenfels
• Socioeconomic circumstances and the risk of bowel cancer in Northern Ireland. (1 December, 1996)

  F Kee, R Wilson, S Currie, J Sloan, R Houston, B Rowlands, J Moorehead
• The sex ratio of children in relation to paternal preconceptional radiation dose: a study in Cumbria, northern England. (1 December, 1996)

  H O Dickinson, L Parker, K Binks, R Wakeford, J Smith
• Total and occupationally active life expectancies in relation to social class and marital status in men classified as healthy at 20 in Finland. (1 December, 1996)

  J Kaprio, S Sarna, M Fogelholm, M Koskenvuo
• Menarche and the onset of depression and anxiety in Victoria, Australia. (1 December, 1996)

  G C Patton, M E Hibbert, J Carlin, Q Shao, M Rosier, J Caust, G Bowes
• Targeted hepatitis B vaccination--a cost effective immunisation strategy for the UK? (1 December, 1996)

  J R Williams, D J Nokes, R M Anderson
• Reliability of data from proxy respondents in an international case-control study of cardiovascular disease and oral contraceptives. World Health Organization Collaborative Study of Cardiovascular Disease and Steroid Hormone Contraception. (1 December, 1996)

  N R Poulter, C L Chang, T M Farley, M G Marmot
• Standardisation or modelling of mortality rates. (1 December, 1996)

  S de Mateo, E Regidor
• Use of mid-arm and chest circumferences to predict birth weight in rural north India. (1 December, 1996)

  S K Kapoor, G Kumar, K Anand
• Smoking and alcohol consumption in Trent, UK: an analysis of item non-response. (1 December, 1996)

  R Dengler
• Do sexual health questions alter the public's response to lifestyle questionnaires? (1 December, 1996)

  P J Barker, R F Cooper
• Use of deprivation indices in small area studies. (1 December, 1996)

  A Lawson
• The decline in sex ratios at birth, England and Wales, 1973-90. (1 December, 1996)

  W H James