Table of contents

Research reports

• Using self-rated health for analysing social inequalities in health: a risk for underestimating the gap between socioeconomic groups? (12 February, 2009)

  C Delpierre, V Lauwers-Cances, G D Datta, T Lang, L Berkman
• Increase in maternal mortality associated with change in the reproductive pattern in Spain: 1996–2005 (15 February, 2009)

  M Á Luque Fernández, A Bueno Cavanillas, M Dramaix-Wilmet, F S Soria, J de Mata Donado Campos, D H Guibert
• Economic difficulties and common mental disorders among Finnish and British white-collar employees: the contribution of social and behavioural factors (15 February, 2009)

  E Laaksonen, P Martikainen, T Lallukka, E Lahelma, J Ferrie, O Rahkonen, M Marmot, J Head
• Impact of weight change on specific-cause mortality among middle-aged Japanese individuals (15 February, 2009)

  I Saito, M Konishi, H Iso, M Inoue, S Tsugane
• Does socioeconomic status fully mediate the effect of ethnicity on the health of Roma people in Hungary? (18 February, 2009) Free

  Z Vokó, P Csépe, R Németh, K Kósa, Z Kósa, G Széles, R Ádány
• Relative deprivation and incident functional disability among older Japanese women and men: prospective cohort study (12 February, 2009)

  N Kondo, I Kawachi, H Hirai, K Kondo, S V Subramanian, T Hanibuchi, Z Yamagata
• Physical and cognitive function in midlife: reciprocal effects? A 5-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study (13 May, 2009)

  M Elovainio, M Kivimäki, J E Ferrie, D Gimeno, R De Vogli, M Virtanen, J Vahtera, E J Brunner, M G Marmot, A Singh-Manoux
• The psychosocial context of pregnancy smoking and quitting in the Millennium Cohort Study (3 March, 2009)

  K E Pickett, R G Wilkinson, L S Wakschlag
• Universal infant hearing screening programme in a community with predominant non-hospital births: a three-year experience (19 February, 2009)

  B O Olusanya, O M Ebuehi, A O Somefun
• Ambient air pollutant concentrations during pregnancy and the risk of fetal growth restriction (8 April, 2009)

  D Q Rich, K Demissie, S-E Lu, L Kamat, D Wartenberg, G G Rhoads