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Evidence based public health policy and practice

• Mumps and the media: changes in the reporting of mumps in response to newspaper coverage (13 April, 2007)

  Babatunde Olowokure, Lilian Clark, Alex J Elliot, Douglas Harding, Ann Fleming
• Mutual interaction between nutritional status and chronic arsenic toxicity due to groundwater contamination in an area of Terai, lowland Nepal (13 April, 2007)

  Makhan Maharjan, Chiho Watanabe, Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Masahiro Umezaki, Ryutaro Ohtsuka
• Air pollution from biomass burning and asthma hospital admissions in a sugar cane plantation area in Brazil (13 April, 2007)

  Marcos Abdo Arbex, Lourdes Conceição Martins, Regiani Carvalho de Oliveira, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, Flávio Ferlin Arbex, José Eduardo Delfini Cançado, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Alfésio Luís Ferreira Braga
• Educational differences in mobility: the contribution of physical workload, obesity, smoking and chronic conditions (13 April, 2007)

  Päivi Sainio, Tuija Martelin, Seppo Koskinen, Markku Heliövaara
• Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage and refraining from seeking medical treatment in Sweden (13 April, 2007)

  Sarah Wamala, Juan Merlo, Gunnel Boström, Christer Hogstedt
• Patient cost sharing and physician visits by socioeconomic position: findings in three Western European countries (13 April, 2007)

  Lourdes Lostao, Enrique Regidor, Siegfried Geyer, Pierre Aïach
• What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socioeconomic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability? (13 April, 2007) Free

  Clare Bambra, Daniel Pope
• Organisational justice and smoking: the Finnish public sector study (13 April, 2007)

  Anne Kouvonen, Jussi Vahtera, Marko Elovainio, Sara J Cox, Tom Cox, Anne Linna, Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki