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Research reports

• Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne, Australia (18 October, 2005)

  Anne M Kavanagh, Jane L Goller, Tania King, Damien Jolley, David Crawford, Gavin Turrell
• Variation of health status among people living on boats in Hue, Vietnam (18 October, 2005)

  Nguyen Khac Luong Quang, Takehito Takano, Keiko Nakamura, Masafumi Watanabe, Tomoko Inose, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Kaoruko Seino
• Environmental equity, air quality, socioeconomic status, and respiratory health: a linkage analysis of routine data from the Health Survey for England (18 October, 2005)

  Benedict W Wheeler, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
• Does birth weight predict childhood diet in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children? (18 October, 2005)

  W A Shultis, S D Leary, A R Ness, C J Bain, P M Emmett
• Ethnic differences in cause specific mortality among hospitalised patients with diabetes: a linkage study in New Zealand (18 October, 2005)

  Mona Jeffreys, Craig Wright, Andrea ‘t Mannetje, Ken Huang, Neil Pearce
• Diversity and change in suicide seasonality over 125 years (18 October, 2005)

  Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Matthias Bopp, Roberto Sansossio, Christoph Lauber, Michal Gostynski, Dominique Eich, Felix Gutzwiller, Wulf Rössler
• Local economy and sickness absence: prospective cohort study (18 October, 2005)

  Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Marko Elovainio, Pekka Virtanen, Jussi Vahtera
• Sense of coherence as a moderator of the effects of stressful life events on health (18 October, 2005)

  Chris G Richardson, Pamela A Ratner