Table of contents

Research report

• Survival disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders with colon cancer: the role of patient comorbidity, treatment and health service factors (7 January, 2010)

  Sarah Hill, Diana Sarfati, Tony Blakely, Bridget Robson, Gordon Purdie, Jarvis Chen, Elizabeth Dennett, Donna Cormack, Ruth Cunningham, Kevin Dew, Tim McCreanor, Ichiro Kawachi
• Do early intake of fish and fish oil protect against eczema and doctor-diagnosed asthma at 2 years of age? A cohort study (6 August, 2009)

  Torbjørn Øien, Ola Storrø, Roar Johnsen
• It takes a village: community education predicts paediatric lower-respiratory infection risk better than maternal education (6 August, 2009)

  Bradford D Gessner, Marc-Andre R Chimonas, Sue C Grady
• Mortality inequalities by parental education among children and young adults in Finland 1990–2004 (6 August, 2009)

  Hanna Remes, Pekka Martikainen, Tapani Valkonen
• Outdoor air pollution and uncontrolled asthma in the San Joaquin Valley, California (7 January, 2010)

  Ying-Ying Meng, Rudolph P Rull, Michelle Wilhelm, Christina Lombardi, John Balmes, Beate Ritz
• Adverse reproductive and child health outcomes among people living near highly toxic waste water drains in Punjab, India (19 October, 2009)

  Jarnail Singh Thakur, Shankar Prinja, Dalbir Singh, Arvind Rajwanshi, Rajendra Prasad, Harjinder Kaur Parwana, Rajesh Kumar
• Community context, acculturation and low-birth-weight risk among Arab Americans: evidence from the Arab–American birth-outcomes study (19 August, 2009) Free

  Abdulrahman M El-Sayed, Sandro Galea
• Does childcare influence socioeconomic inequalities in unintentional injury? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (24 November, 2009)

  A Pearce, L Li, J Abbas, B Ferguson, H Graham, C Law
• Time trends in childhood and adolescent obesity in England from 1995 to 2007 and projections of prevalence to 2015 (7 January, 2010)

  E Stamatakis, P Zaninotto, E Falaschetti, J Mindell, J Head
• Combined effect of resting heart rate and physical activity on ischaemic heart disease: mortality follow-up in a population study (the HUNT study, Norway) (7 January, 2010)

  J Nauman, T Ivar Lund Nilsen, U Wisløff, L J Vatten