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Research reports

• All-cause and diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a predictor of sustained suboptimal health: a 14-year follow-up in the GAZEL cohort (13 August, 2009)

  Jussi Vahtera, Hugo Westerlund, Jane E Ferrie, Jenny Head, Maria Melchior, Archana Singh-Manoux, Marie Zins, Marcel Goldberg, Kristina Alexanderson, Mika Kivimäki
• Socioeconomic determinants for compliance to colorectal cancer screening. A multilevel analysis (8 September, 2009)

  C Pornet, O Dejardin, F Morlais, V Bouvier, G Launoy
• Maternal drinking water arsenic exposure and perinatal outcomes in Inner Mongolia, China (19 August, 2009)

  S L Myers, D T Lobdell, Z Liu, Y Xia, H Ren, Y Li, R K Kwok, J L Mumford, P Mendola
• Verbal autopsy can consistently measure AIDS mortality: a validation study in Tanzania and Zimbabwe (23 October, 2009)

  B Lopman, A Cook, J Smith, G Chawira, M Urassa, Y Kumogola, R Isingo, C Ihekweazu, J Ruwende, M Ndege, S Gregson, B Zaba, T Boerma
• Socioeconomic variations in the prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease: a population-based analysis (13 August, 2009)

  Lisa M Lix, Douglas E Hobson, Mahmoud Azimaee, William D Leslie, Charles Burchill, Shaun Hobson
• Socioeconomic differences in second-hand smoke exposure among children in Scotland after introduction of the smoke-free legislation (13 August, 2009)

  Patricia C Akhtar, Sally J Haw, Kate A Levin, Dorothy B Currie, Rachel Zachary, Candace E Currie
• Sense of coherence and psychological well-being: improvement with age (19 August, 2009)

  K W Nilsson, J Leppert, B Simonsson, B Starrin
• Psychopathology among children and adolescents in child welfare: a comparison across different types of placement in Flanders, Belgium (13 August, 2009)

  A Janssens, D Deboutte
• Ten-year change in blood pressure levels and prevalence of hypertension in urban and rural Cameroon (19 August, 2009)

  L Fezeu, A P Kengne, B Balkau, P K Awah, J C Mbanya
• Prognosis criteria of casual systolic and diastolic blood pressure values in a prospective study in India (19 August, 2009)

  C Sauvaget, K Ramadas, G Thomas, S Thara, R Sankaranarayanan