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Evidence-based public health policy and practice

• Living and health conditions of Palestinian refugees in an unofficial camp in the Lebanon: a cross-sectional survey (11 January, 2008)

  J E Zabaneh, G C M Watt, C A O’Donnell
• Reducing ambient levels of fine particulates could substantially improve health: a mortality impact assessment for 26 European cities (11 January, 2008)

  Ferran Ballester, Sylvia Medina, Elena Boldo, Pat Goodman, Manfred Neuberger, Carmen Iñiguez, Nino Künzli
• Perceived health change in the aftermath of a petrochemical accident: an examination of pre-accident, within-accident, and post-accident variables (11 January, 2008)

  M K Peek, M P Cutchin, D H Freeman, N A Perez, J S Goodwin
• The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa (11 January, 2008)

  J R Hargreaves, L A Morison, J C Kim, C P Bonell, J D H Porter, C Watts, J Busza, G Phetla, P M Pronyk
• Iron but not folic acid supplementation reduces the risk of low birthweight in pregnant women without anaemia: a case–control study (11 January, 2008)

  S Palma, R Perez-Iglesias, D Prieto, R Pardo, J Llorca, M Delgado-Rodriguez
• Prevalence of overweight and obesity in East and West German children in the decade after reunification: population-based series of cross-sectional studies (11 January, 2008)

  C J Apfelbacher, J Cairns, T Bruckner, M Möhrenschlager, H Behrendt, J Ring, U Krämer
• Preventing disability through understanding international megatrends in Deaf bilingual education (11 January, 2008)

  I M Munoz-Baell, C Alvarez-Dardet, M T Ruiz, R Ortiz, M L Esteban, E Ferreiro
• Medical illness, medication use and suicide in seniors: a population-based case–control study (11 January, 2008)

  D C Voaklander, B H Rowe, D M Dryden, J Pahal, P Saar, K D Kelly