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Research reports

• Increased cardiovascular mortality associated with the turn of the millennium in Los Angeles County, California (11 February, 2005)

  W Kenneth Poole, Jason S Chi, J Doyle Walton, Sarah Kandefer, Robert A Kloner
• Neighbourhood environment and its association with self rated health: evidence from Scotland and England (11 February, 2005)

  Steven Cummins, Mai Stafford, Sally Macintyre, Michael Marmot, Anne Ellaway
• Material, psychosocial, and behavioural factors in the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality in the Netherlands (11 February, 2005)

  Floor V A van Oort, Frank J van Lenthe, Johan P Mackenbach
• Space-time clustering of childhood leukaemia cases in Karachi, Pakistan (11 February, 2005)

  Saeed Akhtar, Tim E Carpenter, Fouzia Ajmal, Shafquat Rozi, Salman Adil
• The effect of dislike of school on risk of teenage pregnancy: testing of hypotheses using longitudinal data from a randomised trial of sex education (11 February, 2005)

  C Bonell, E Allen, V Strange, A Copas, A Oakley, J Stephenson, A Johnson
• Neighbourhood unemployment and all cause mortality: a comparison of six countries (11 February, 2005)

  F J van Lenthe, L N Borrell, G Costa, A V Diez Roux, T M Kauppinen, C Marinacci, P Martikainen, E Regidor, M Stafford, T Valkonen
• Organisational downsizing as a predictor of disability pension: the 10-town prospective cohort study (11 February, 2005)

  Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki, Pauli Forma, Juhani Wikström, Tuomo Halmeenmäki, Anne Linna, Jaana Pentti
• Employment transitions and mental health: an analysis from the British household panel survey (11 February, 2005)

  Claudia Thomas, Michaela Benzeval, Stephen A Stansfeld