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Research reports

• The importance of community education for individual mortality: a fixed-effects analysis of longitudinal multilevel data on 1.7 million Norwegian women and men (23 October, 2009) Free

  Øystein Kravdal
• Comorbid chronic diseases, discordant impact on mortality in older people: a 14-year longitudinal population study (23 October, 2009)

  G E Caughey, E N Ramsay, A I Vitry, A L Gilbert, M A Luszcz, P Ryan, E E Roughead
• Predictors of health-endangering behaviour among Roma and non-Roma adolescents in Slovakia by gender (12 November, 2009)

  P Kolarčik, A M Geckova, O Orosova, J P van Dijk, S A Reijneveld
• Non-accidental head injury: a consequence of deprivation? (1 November, 2009)

  J Y Q Mok, P A Jones, E Myerscough, A R F Shah, R A Minns
• Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda using the “neighbourhood method” (24 November, 2009)

  L Stark, L Roberts, W Wheaton, A Acham, N Boothby, A Ager
• Estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness using routinely collected laboratory data (12 November, 2009)

  D M Fleming, N J Andrews, J S Ellis, A Bermingham, P Sebastianpillai, A J Elliot, E Miller, M Zambon
• Do gastrointestinal tract infections in infancy increase blood pressure in childhood? A cohort study (5 November, 2009)

  R M Martin, M S Kramer, M Dahhou, R W Platt, R Patel, N Bogdanovich, L Matush, G Davey Smith, Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) Study Group
• Weight-for-age z-score as a proxy marker for diarrhoea in epidemiological studies (1 December, 2009)

  Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Sophie Boisson, Bernd Genser, Mauricio L Barreto, Kathy Baisley, Suzanne Filteau, Sandy Cairncross
• Breastfeeding patterns among ethnic minorities: the Generation R Study (8 December, 2009)

  L van Rossem, I Vogel, E A P Steegers, H A Moll, V W V Jaddoe, A Hofman, J P Mackenbach, H Raat
• Census tract socioeconomic and physical environment and cardiovascular mortality in the Region of Madrid (Spain) (8 December, 2009)

  M F Domínguez-Berjón, A Gandarillas, J Segura del Pozo, B Zorrilla, M J Soto, L López, I Duque, M I Marta, I Abad
• Iodine intake in a population of pregnant women: INMA mother and child cohort study, Spain (11 December, 2009)

  M Murcia, M Rebagliato, M Espada, J Vioque, L Santa Marina, M Alvarez-Pedrerol, M-J Lopez-Espinosa, G León, C Íñiguez, M Basterrechea, M Guxens, A Lertxundi, A Perales, F Ballester, J Sunyer