Table of contents

Research reports

• Excess winter mortality in Europe: a cross country analysis identifying key risk factors (22 October, 2003)

  J D Healy
• Cold related mortality in England and Wales; influence of social class in working and retired age groups (22 October, 2003)

  G C Donaldson, W R Keatinge
• Labour market income inequality and mortality in North American metropolitan areas (22 October, 2003)

  C Sanmartin, N A Ross, S Tremblay, M Wolfson, J R Dunn, J Lynch
• Socioeconomic status and tobacco expenditure among Australian households: results from the 1998–99 Household Expenditure Survey (22 October, 2003)

  M Siahpush
• Socioeconomic status over the life course and stages of cigarette use: initiation, regular use, and cessation (22 October, 2003)

  S E Gilman, D B Abrams, S L Buka
• Women brothel workers and occupational health risks (22 October, 2003)

  J Cwikel, K Ilan, B Chudakov
• Central and total obesity in middle aged men and women in relation to lifetime socioeconomic status: evidence from a national birth cohort (22 October, 2003)

  C Langenberg, R Hardy, D Kuh, E Brunner, M Wadsworth
• An investigation of risk factors for symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee in women using a life course approach (22 October, 2003)

  J Dawson, E Juszczak, M Thorogood, S-A Marks, C Dodd, R Fitzpatrick