Table of contents

Research reports

• Do urban regeneration programmes improve public health and reduce health inequalities? A synthesis of the evidence from UK policy and practice (1980–2004) (13 January, 2006)

  Hilary Thomson, Rowland Atkinson, Mark Petticrew, Ade Kearns
• Bonding versus bridging social capital and their associations with self rated health: a multilevel analysis of 40 US communities (13 January, 2006)

  D Kim, S V Subramanian, I Kawachi
• Acceptability of domestic violence against women in the European Union: a multilevel analysis (13 January, 2006)

  Enrique Gracia, Juan Herrero
• Socioeconomic determinants of health related quality of life in childhood and adolescence: results from a European study (13 January, 2006)

  Ursula von Rueden, Angela Gosch, Luis Rajmil, Corinna Bisegger, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, the European KIDSCREEN group
• Roads, railways, and childhood cancers (13 January, 2006) Free

  E G Knox
• Could dehydration in infancy lead to high blood pressure? (13 January, 2006)

  George Davey Smith, Sam Leary, Sam Ness, The ALSPAC Study Team
• Birth weight, adult blood pressure, and blood pressure reactions to acute psychological stress (13 January, 2006)

  Douglas Carroll, George Davey Smith, Anna C Phillips, Christopher Ring, Patrick West
• Breast feeding is related to C reactive protein concentration in adult women (13 January, 2006)

  M J A Williams, S M Williams, R Poulton
• Is there a “school effect” on pupil outcomes? A review of multilevel studies (13 January, 2006)

  E Sellström, S Bremberg
• Country material distribution and adolescents’ perceived health: multilevel study of adolescents in 27 countries (13 January, 2006)

  Torbjorn Torsheim, Candace Currie, Will Boyce, Oddrun Samdal
• Children’s use of general practitioner services in the five Nordic countries (13 January, 2006)

  J I Virtanen, L T Berntsson, E Lahelma, L Köhler
• Bladder cancer mortality and private well use in New England: an ecological study (13 January, 2006)

  Joseph D Ayotte, Dalsu Baris, Kenneth P Cantor, Joanne Colt, Gilpin R Robinson, Jay H Lubin, Margaret Karagas, Robert N Hoover, Joseph F Fraumeni, Debra T Silverman
• Associations between exposure to ambient photochemical oxidants and the vitality or mental health domain of the health related quality of life (13 January, 2006)

  Shin Yamazaki, Hiroshi Nitta, Shunichi Fukuhara