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Evidence based public health policy and practice

• Childhood adversities as a predictor of disability retirement (11 May, 2007)

  Karoliina Harkonmäki, Katariina Korkeila, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki, Sakari Suominen, Lauri Sillanmäki, Markku Koskenvuo
• School culture as an influencing factor on youth substance use (11 May, 2007)

  Sherri Bisset, Wolfgang A Markham, Paul Aveyard
• Socioeconomic and food-related physical characteristics of the neighbourhood environment are associated with body mass index (11 May, 2007)

  May C Wang, Soowon Kim, Alma A Gonzalez, Kara E MacLeod, Marilyn A Winkleby
• Change in the total and independent effects of education and occupational social class on mortality: analyses of all Finnish men and women in the period 1971–2000 (11 May, 2007)

  Pekka Martikainen, Jenni Blomgren, Tapani Valkonen
• Symptomatology attributable to psychological exposure to a chemical incident: a natural experiment (11 May, 2007)

  John Gallacher, Karin Bronstering, Stephen Palmer, David Fone, Ronan Lyons
• Unfairness and health: evidence from the Whitehall II Study (11 May, 2007) Free

  Roberto De Vogli, Jane E Ferrie, Tarani Chandola, Mika Kivimäki, Michael G Marmot
• Evaluation of the quality of cause of death statistics in rural China using verbal autopsies (11 May, 2007)

  Lijun Wang, Gonghuan Yang, Ma Jiemin, Chalapati Rao, Xia Wan, G Dubrovsky, Alan D Lopez