Table of contents

Research reports

• Avoidable mortality in Europe (1980–1997): a comparison of trends (16 March, 2004)

  H F Treurniet, H C Boshuizen, P P M Harteloh
• Increasing inequalities in premature mortality in Great Britain (16 March, 2004)

  A H Leyland
• The demographic and social class basis of inequality in self reported morbidity: an exploration using the Health Survey for England (16 March, 2004)

  S Asthana, A Gibson, G Moon, P Brigham, J Dicker
• Trends in socioeconomic health inequalities in Korea: use of mortality and morbidity measures (16 March, 2004)

  Y H Khang, J W Lynch, S Yun, S I Lee
• Effects of education and other socioeconomic factors on middle age mortality in rural Bangladesh (16 March, 2004)

  L S Hurt, C Ronsmans, S Saha
• Sickness absence as a predictor of mortality among male and female employees (16 March, 2004)

  J Vahtera, J Pentti, M Kivimäki
• Pathways between socioeconomic determinants of health (16 March, 2004)

  E Lahelma, P Martikainen, M Laaksonen, A Aittomäki
• Places, people, and their physical and mental functional health (16 March, 2004)

  N W J Wainwright, P G Surtees
• Social capital and collective efficacy in Hungary: cross sectional associations with middle aged female and male mortality rates (16 March, 2004)

  Á Skrabski, M Kopp, I Kawachi
• Racial segregation and county level intentional injury in Pennsylvania: analysis of hospital discharge data for 1997–1999 (16 March, 2004)

  A Fabio, W Li, S Strotmeyer, C C Branas
• Images of body weight among young men and women: evidence from Beirut, Lebanon (16 March, 2004)

  M Khawaja, R A Afifi-Soweid