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Research reports

• Visualising and quantifying ‘excess deaths’ in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe (6 January, 2017)

  Jon Minton, Richard Shaw, Mark A Green, Laura Vanderbloemen, Frank Popham, Gerry McCartney
• Urban–rural differences in cancer-directed surgery and survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (2 December, 2016)

  Audrey Alforque Thomas, Alison Pearce, Ciaran O'Neill, Michal Molcho, Linda Sharp
• How voter turnout varies between different chronic conditions? A population-based register study (13 December, 2016)

  Reijo Sund, Hannu Lahtinen, Hanna Wass, Mikko Mattila, Pekka Martikainen
• Demographic factors, workplace factors and active transportation use in the USA: a secondary analysis of 2009 NHTS data (16 December, 2016)

  Tyler D Quinn, John M Jakicic, Carl I Fertman, Bethany Barone Gibbs
• Inequalities in tobacco outlet density by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, 2012, USA: results from the ASPiRE Study (1 March, 2017)

  Joseph G L Lee, Dennis L Sun, Nina M Schleicher, Kurt M Ribisl, Douglas A Luke, Lisa Henriksen
• Do differences in religious affiliation explain high levels of excess mortality in the UK? (7 March, 2017) Free

  Kevin Ralston, David Walsh, Zhiqiang Feng, Chris Dibben, Gerry McCartney, Dermot O'Reilly
• Longitudinal study of weight, energy intake and physical activity change across two decades in older Scottish women (3 February, 2017)

  Tiffany C Yang, Anna A Gryka, Lorna S Aucott, Garry G Duthie, Helen M Macdonald