TY - JOUR T1 - Happiness, inequalities, and health JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 613 LP - 613 VL - 59 IS - 8 AU - Carlos Alvarez-Dardet AU - John R Ashton Y1 - 2005/08/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/8/613.abstract N2 - In this issue we have a mixture of offerings for the summer break: an editorial on health and happiness linked to a paper by Subramanian and colleagues argues that healthy communities tend to be happy communities and explores some of the causal and associated variables, while Stephen Genuis argues that as much of the world’s disease burden results from preventable poor nutrition, it is now time for a global diet strategy.
 See pages 614, 664, 615 A third editorial by Mindell and Joffe contends that mathematical modelling is seldom applied to research on global measures of health and inequalities, mainly because of the lack of intervention studies that would underpin such work.
 See page 617 In Speaker’s … ER -