Advance articles - March 2023

Externally oriented thinking style increases primary health care use in adolescence 
Virve Kekkonen, Siiri-Liisi Kraav, Jukka Hintikka, Petri Kivimäki, Outi Kaarre, Tommi Tolmunen
Cost of illness in patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome in Belgium 
Ruben Willems, Nick Verhaeghe, Christian Perronne, Liesbeth Borgermans, Lieven Annemans
The self-reported health of the Sámi in Sweden: the SámiHET study 
Miguel San Sebastián, Jon Petter Stoor
Work–life balance and work engagement across the European workforce: a comparative analysis of welfare states 
Janina M Björk-Fant, Pernilla Bolander, Anna K Forsman
Cause-specific mortality in Spain during the pandemic: educational differences and its impact on life expectancy 
Jeroen J A Spijker, Sergi Trias-Llimós
Alive and kicking: suicide rates and major soccer events in Austria, Germany and Switzerland 
Eva-Maria Pichler, Martin Ploederl, Lucas Rainer, Thomas S Gilhofer, Jonathan Michel, Jan Gerrit van der Stouwe, Thomas F Luescher, Christian M Schmied, Wolfram Kawohl, Jens Kronschnabel, David Niederseer
Time use, time pressure and sleep: is gender an effect modifier? 
Anna J Scovelle, Belinda Hewitt, Tea Lallukka, Adrienne O’Neil, Tania L King
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-based testing for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections in the WHO European Region, March to August 2020 
Laura Fernàndez-López, Daniel Simões, Jordi Casabona, The EuroTEST COVID-19 Impact Assessment Consortium of Partners
Co-occurring homelessness, justice involvement, opioid dependence and psychosis: a cross-sectoral data linkage study 
Emily J Tweed, Alastair H Leyland, David S Morrison, S Vittal Katikireddi
Regional variations in multimorbidity burden among office-based physicians in Germany 
Isabel Geiger, Ronja Flemming, Wiebke Schüttig, Leonie Sundmacher
Central and Eastern European migrant worker status, co-living situation and SARS-CoV-2 exposure and transmission risk 
L H Boogaard, J L A Hautvast, A Timen, C H M van Jaarsveld
Optimization of screening strategies for colorectal cancer based on fecal DNA and occult blood testing 
Tingting Yao, Qin Sun, Kangwei Xiong, Yuan Su, Qian Zhao, Chenhong Zhang, Lijiu Zhang, Xuejun Li, Haiming Fang
The effectiveness of interventions to prevent loneliness and social isolation in the community-dwelling and old population: an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis 
Ludwig Grillich, Viktoria Titscher, Pauline Klingenstein, Eva Kostial, Robert Emprechtinger, Irma Klerings, Isolde Sommer, Jana Nikitin, Anton-Rupert Laireiter
Time period effects in work disability due to common mental disorders among young employees in Sweden—a register-based cohort study across occupational classes and employment sectors 
Ridwanul Amin, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Emma Björkenstam, Marianna Virtanen, Magnus Helgesson, Niklas Gustafsson, Syed Rahman
Support for evidence-based alcohol policy in Ireland: results from a representative household survey 
Susan Calnan, Seán R Millar, Deirdre Mongan
Is there a peer status gradient in mortality? Findings from a Swedish cohort born in 1953 and followed to age 67 
Ylva B Almquist, Viveca Östberg, Bitte Modin
A comparative study of industry responses to government consultations about alcohol and gambling in the UK 
Saloni Bhuptani, Sadie Boniface, Katherine Severi, Greg Hartwell, Elizabeth McGill
Veneto Region dementia-related mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: multiple causes of death and time series analysis 
Cristina Basso, Claudio Barbiellini Amidei, Veronica Casotto, Elena Schievano, Matilde Dotto, Silvia Tiozzo Netti, Manuel Zorzi, Ugo Fedeli
Sex variation in colorectal cancer mortality: trends and implications for screening 
Gavin R C Clark, Callum G Fraser, Judith A Strachan, Robert J C Steele
Socioeconomic inequalities in paediatric metabolic syndrome: mediation by parental health literacy 
Alexander Lepe, Marlou L A de Kroon, Sijmen A Reijneveld, Andrea F de Winter
Changes in adult obesity prevalence in Denmark, 1987–2021: age–period–cohort analysis of nationally representative data 
Stine Schramm, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Michael Davidsen, Janne S Tolstrup
A mystery-shopping study to test enforcement of minimum legal purchasing age in Lithuania in 2022 
Laura MišÄ¨ikien