Table of contents

Research reports

• Declining male births with increasing geographical latitude in Europe (1 April, 2000)

  Victor Grech, P Vassallo-Agius, Charles Savona-Ventura
• “Development” is not essential to reduce infant mortality rate in India: experience from the Ballabgarh project (1 April, 2000)

  K Anand, Shashi Kant, Guresh Kumar, S K Kapoor
• Marital status and suicide in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (1 April, 2000)

  Augustine J Kposowa
• The cultural heritage shapes the pattern of tumour profiles in Europe: a correlation study (1 April, 2000)

  Romualdo Benigni, Rosa Giaimo, Domenica Matranga, Alessandro Giuliani
• Sociodemographic characteristics influencing birth outcome in Sweden, 1908–1930. Birth variables in The Population Study of Women in Gothenburg (1 April, 2000)

  Susan W Andersson, Aimon Niklasson, Leif Lapidus, Leif Hallberg, Calle Bengtsson, Lena Hulthén
• Intra-urban differences in breast cancer mortality: a study from the city of Malmö in Sweden (1 April, 2000)

  Jonas Manjer, Göran Berglund, Lennart Bondesson, Jens Peter Garne, Lars Janzon, Anna Lindgren, Janne Malina, Sophia Matson
• Socioeconomic status and the expectation of disability in old age: estimates for England (1 April, 2000)

  The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) writing committee:, David Melzer, Brenda McWilliams, Carol Brayne, Tony Johnson, John Bond
• Regional variation in incidence and case fatality of myocardial infarction among young women in England, Scotland and Wales (1 April, 2000)

  N R Dunn, A Arscott, M Thorogood, B Faragher, L de Caestecker, T M MacDonald, C McCollum, S Thomas, R D Mann
• Income, occupational position, qualification and health inequalities—competing risks? (Comparing indicators of social status) (1 April, 2000)

  Siegfried Geyer, Richard Peter