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Research Article

• Air pollution and other local factors in respiratory disease. 1959. (1 June, 1997)

  A S Fairbairn, D D Reid
• That which we call social medicine.... (1 June, 1997)

  L J Gunning-Schepers
• Has the prevalence of asthma increased in children? Evidence from a long term study in Israel. (1 June, 1997)

  A I Goren, S Hellmann
• Asthma and thunderstorms: description of an epidemic in general practice in Britain using data from a doctors' deputising service in the UK. (1 June, 1997)

  J Higham, K Venables, E Kupek, M Bajekal, E Kopek
• A comprehensive study of smoking in primary school children in Hong Kong: implications for prevention. (1 June, 1997)

  J Peters, A J Hedley, T H Lam, C L Betson, C M Wong
• Smoking during pregnancy: how reliable are maternal self reports in New Zealand? (1 June, 1997)

  R P Ford, D M Tappin, P J Schluter, C J Wild
• Smoking and relative body weight: an international perspective from the WHO MONICA Project. (1 June, 1997)

  A Molarius, J C Seidell, K Kuulasmaa, A J Dobson, S Sans
• Weight gain during the first year of life in relation to maternal smoking and breast feeding in Norway. (1 June, 1997)

  P Nafstad, J J Jaakkola, J A Hagen, B S Pedersen, E Qvigstad, G Botten, J Kongerud
• Cardiovascular risk factor profile in subjects with familial predisposition to myocardial infarction in Denmark. (1 June, 1997)

  M Hippe, J Vestbo, A M Bjerg, K Borch-Johnsen, M Appleyard, H O Hein, P K Andersen, G Jensen, T I Sørensen
• Political changes and trends in cardiovascular risk factors in the Czech Republic, 1985-92. (1 June, 1997)

  M Bobak, Z Skodova, Z Pisa, R Poledne, M Marmot
• Nutritional assessment of two famine prone Ethiopian communities. (1 June, 1997)

  T Alemu, B Lindtjørn
• Effect of labour market conditions on reporting of limiting long-term illness and permanent sickness in England and Wales. (1 June, 1997)

  R Haynes, G Bentham, A Lovett, J Eimermann
• Estimating potential savings in cancer deaths by eliminating regional and social class variation in cancer survival in the Nordic countries. (1 June, 1997)

  P W Dickman, R W Gibberd, T Hakulinen
• Community mothers' programme: extension to the travelling community in Ireland. (1 June, 1997)

  P Fitzpatrick, B Molloy, Z Johnson
• Strategies for the prevention of psychiatric disorder in primary care in south London. (1 June, 1997)

  S Weich, G Lewis, R Churchill, A Mann
• Profiling outpatient workload: practice variations between consultant firms and hospitals in south west England. (1 June, 1997)

  A C Faulkner, I M Harvey, T J Peters, D J Sharp, S J Frankel
• Emergency admission of patients to general surgical beds: attitudes of general practitioners, surgical trainees, and consultants in Liverpool, UK. (1 June, 1997)

  P McCulloch, J Bowyer, T Fitzsimmons, M Johnson, D Lowe, R Ward
• Prospective versus retrospective measurement of change in health status: a community based study in Geneva, Switzerland. (1 June, 1997)

  T V Perneger, J F Etter, A Rougemont
• Validation of a short telephone administered questionnaire to evaluate dietary interventions in low income communities in Montreal, Canada. (1 June, 1997)

  K Gray-Donald, J O'Loughlin, L Richard, G Paradis
• The immediate effects of the pill safety scare on usage of combined oral contraceptives in north east England. (1 June, 1997)

  S J Roberts
• Cause specific social class mortality differentials for child injury and poisoning in England and Wales. (1 June, 1997)

  I Roberts
• Epidemiology of neonatal tetanus in the Rivers State of Nigeria: a community based study. (1 June, 1997)

  P N Abuwa, E A Alikor, P V Gbaraba, K S Mung, R S Oruamabo
• Variability of skin cancer registration practice in the United Kingdom. (1 June, 1997)

  G Maudsley, E M Williams
• Research into purchasing health care: time to face the challenge. (1 June, 1997)

  N Mays
• Discounting the future: influence of the economic model. (1 June, 1997)

  T Marshall
• Ionizing radiation and offspring sex ratio. (1 June, 1997)

  W H James