Table of contents

Research reports

• Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: a comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries (17 October, 2008) Free

  C Bambra, T A Eikemo
• Age at birth of first child and coronary heart disease risk factors at age 53 years in men and women: British birth cohort study (9 September, 2008)

  R Hardy, D A Lawlor, S Black, G D Mishra, D Kuh
• Ethnic disparity in stillbirth and infant mortality in Denmark 1981–2003 (17 October, 2008)

  S Fredsted Villadsen, L H Mortensen, A M Nybo Andersen
• Household and food shopping environments: do they play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable consumption? A multilevel study among Dutch adults (18 September, 2008)

  K Giskes, F J van Lenthe, C B M Kamphuis, M Huisman, J Brug, J P Mackenbach
• Alcohol use and fasting glucose in a developing southern Chinese population: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (17 October, 2008)

  C M Schooling, C Q Jiang, T H Lam, W S Zhang, K K Cheng, G M Leung
• New obesity body mass index threshold for self-reported data (18 September, 2008)

  V Dauphinot, H Wolff, F Naudin, R Guéguen, C Sermet, J-M Gaspoz, M P Kossovsky
• Obesity, race/ethnicity and life course socioeconomic status across the transition from adolescence to adulthood (31 October, 2008)

  M Scharoun-Lee, J S Kaufman, B M Popkin, P Gordon-Larsen
• Trends in obesity among adults in England from 1993 to 2004 by age and social class and projections of prevalence to 2012 (11 December, 2008)

  P Zaninotto, J Head, E Stamatakis, H Wardle, J Mindell
• An ecological systems approach to examining risk factors for early childhood overweight: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (18 September, 2008)

  S S Hawkins, T J Cole, C Law, and the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group
• Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices: randomised controlled trial (13 January, 2009)

  R G Watt, K I Tull, R Hardy, M Wiggins, Y Kelly, B Molloy, E Dowler, J Apps, P McGlone