Table of contents

Research reports

• The impact of avoidable mortality on life expectancy at birth in Spain: changes between three periods, from 1987 to 2001 (13 August, 2008)

  R Gispert, I Serra, M A Barés, X Puig, A Puigdefàbregas, A Freitas
• Social capital and self-rated health in urban low income neighbourhoods in Chile (13 August, 2008)

  J C Sapag, M Aracena, L Villarroel, F Poblete, C Berrocal, R Hoyos, M Martínez, I Kawachi
• The effect of improving the thermal quality of cold housing on blood pressure and general health: a research note (13 August, 2008)

  E L Lloyd, C McCormack, M McKeever, M Syme
• Racial, gender and geographic disparities of antiretroviral treatment among US Medicaid enrolees in 1998 (13 August, 2008)

  W D King, P Minor, C Ramirez Kitchen, L E Oré, S Shoptaw, G D Victorianne, G Rust
• Associations between HIV-related injection behaviour and distance to and patterns of utilisation of syringe-supply programmes (13 August, 2008)

  J Bruneau, M Daniel, Y Kestens, G Zang, M Généreux
• Alcohol outlet density, perceived availability and adolescent alcohol use: a multilevel structural equation model (13 August, 2008)

  E Kuntsche, H Kuendig, G Gmel
• Why women attempt suicide: the role of mental illness and social disadvantage in a community cohort study in India (13 August, 2008)

  J Maselko, V Patel
• The relation between non-occupational physical activity and years lived with and without disability (13 August, 2008)

  W J Nusselder, C W N Looman, O H Franco, A Peeters, A S Slingerland, J P Mackenbach
• Sense of coherence, lifestyle choices and mortality (13 August, 2008)

  N W J Wainwright, P G Surtees, A A Welch, R N Luben, K-T Khaw, S A Bingham