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General papers

• ‘The Anglo-Saxon disease’: a pilot study of the barriers to and facilitators of the use of randomised controlled trials of social programmes in an international context (12 March, 2012)

  Helen Roberts, Mark Petticrew, Kristin Liabo, Sally Macintyre
• The association between lung function and fatal stroke in a community followed for 4 decades (7 April, 2012)

  Anne Kristine Gulsvik, Amund Gulsvik, Eva Skovlund, Dag Steinar Thelle, Morten Mowé, Sjur Humerfelt, Torgeir Bruun Wyller
• Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis (21 April, 2012)

  Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, King-wa Fu, Paul S F Yip, Daniel Y T Fong, Steven Stack, Qijin Cheng, Jane Pirkis
• Minding the gap: changes in life expectancy in the Baltic States compared with Finland (11 April, 2012)

  Marina Karanikolos, David A Leon, Peter C Smith, Martin McKee
• Educational inequalities in blood pressure and cholesterol screening in nine European countries (12 January, 2012)

  Danielle Rodin, Irina Stirbu, Ola Ekholm, Dagmar Dzurova, Giuseppe Costa, Johan P Mackenbach, Anton E Kunst
• The enduring effects of marital status on subsequent depressive symptoms among women: investigating the roles of psychological, social and financial resources (3 March, 2012)

  Tracey A LaPierre
• Does income matter for troublesome neck pain? A population-based study on risk and prognosis (12 March, 2012) Free

  Lina Palmlöf, Eva Skillgate, Lars Alfredsson, Eva Vingård, Cecilia Magnusson, Michael Lundberg, Lena W Holm
• A worksite vitality intervention to improve older workers' lifestyle and vitality-related outcomes: results of a randomised controlled trial (20 January, 2012)

  Jorien E Strijk, Karin I Proper, Allard J van der Beek, Willem van Mechelen