Table of contents

Research reports

• Global health inequalities: an international comparison (19 October, 2006)

  J P Ruger, H-J Kim
• Lifelong socioeconomic trajectory and premature mortality (35–65 years) in France: findings from the GAZEL Cohort Study (19 October, 2006)

  M Melchior, L F Berkman, I Kawachi, N Krieger, M Zins, S Bonenfant, M Goldberg
• Patterns of mortality and their changes in France (1968–99): insights into the structure of diseases leading to death and epidemiological transition in an industrialised country (19 October, 2006)

  J Coste, E Bernardin, E Jougla
• Ecological association between suicide rates and indices of deprivation in the north west region of England: the importance of the size of the administrative unit (19 October, 2006)

  Mohsen Rezaeian, Graham Dunn, Selwyn St Leger, Louis Appleby
• Attempted suicide, psychological health and exposure to harassment among Japanese homosexual, bisexual or other men questioning their sexual orientation recruited via the internet (19 October, 2006)

  Y Hidaka, D Operario
• Does parity affect mortality among parous women? (19 October, 2006)

  H Koski-Rahikkala, A Pouta, K Pietiläinen, A-L Hartikainen
• The psychosocial versus material hypothesis to explain observed inequality in disability among older adults: data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study (19 October, 2006)

  Joy A Adamson, Shah Ebrahim, Kate Hunt