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The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(1):7; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl005
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Lots of European perspectives

Johan P. Mackenbach, editor-in-chief

This journal, while not exclusively devoted to European public health, does regularly publish results of European comparative studies. In this issue we have several. Helasoja and others compared the social patterning of health in Finland and the three Baltic states (page 8–20). Hardy and others looked at the association between birth weight and blood pressure in birth cohort studies from Finland, the United Kingdom and the Faroe Islands (page 21–30). Finally, the social patterning of overweight in Finland and Denmark was studied by Sarlio-Lätheenkorva and others (page 36–40). These stories of common patterns and subtle variations highlight Europe's potential as a giant population laboratory for public health. They illustrate that what countries have in common, is often just as interesting as the larger and smaller things which divide them....


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