Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2020

EDITORIAL
Thirty years after German reunification: population health between solidarity and global competitiveness
Rok Hrzic, Helmut Brand

COMMENTARY
COVID-19 mortality: a complex interplay of sex, gender and ethnicity
Nazrul Islam, Kamlesh Khunti, Hajira Dambha-Miller, Ichiro Kawachi, Michael Marmot

VIEWPOINTS
The first 10 000 COVID-19 papers in perspective: are we publishing what we should be publishing?
Anna Odone, Sandro Galea, David Stuckler, Carlo Signorelli, the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele COVID-19 literature monitoring working group
In search of the relevant COVID research
Peter Allebeck, Alma Sörberg Wallin
COVID-19 and human rights—why should the public health community be concerned?
David Patterson, Dineke Zeegers Paget
Covid-19: a test for our humanity
Els Maeckelberghe, Peter Schröder-Bäck
Early lessons from COVID-19 response and shifts in authority: public trust, policy legitimacy and political inclusion
Marleen Bekker, Damir Ivankovic, Olivia Biermann

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
Service utilization patterns for childbirth and neonatal mortality in the occupied Palestinian territory during conflict
Zeina Ali Siam, Tiziana Leone
Use of amenable mortality indicators to evaluate the impact of financial crisis on health system performance in Greece
Christos Zilidis, David Stuckler, Martin McKee
Impact of low health literacy on healthcare utilization in individuals with cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and mental disorders. A Danish population-based 4-year follow-up study
Karina Friis, Marie Hauge Pedersen, Anna Aaby, Mathias Lasgaard, Helle Terkildsen Maindal
Individual and regional determinants of long-term care expenditure in Japan: evidence from national long-term care claims
Xueying Jin, Takahiro Mori, Mikiya Sato, Taeko Watanabe, Haruko Noguchi, Nanako Tamiya
Quality indicators for community dementia care: a systematic review
Samantha Dequanter, Ronald Buyl, Maaike Fobelets
Intervention effectiveness by pharmacists integrated within an interdisciplinary health team on chronic complex patients
Hector Acosta-García, Eva Rocío Alfaro-Lara, Susana Sánchez-Fidalgo, Daniel Sevilla-Sánchez, Eva Delgado-Silveira, Ana Juanes-Borrego, Bernardo Santos-Ramos Cronos Group (SEFH)

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
Differences in housing transitions and changes in health and self-determination between formerly homeless individuals
Jorien van der Laan, Sandra N Boersma, Sara al Shamma, Reinier Akkermans, Barbara van Straaten, Gerda Rodenburg, Dike van de Mheen, Judith R L M Wolf
Health indicators of the National Roma Integration Strategy in Spain in the years 2006 and 2014
Daniel La Parra-Casado, Javier Arza-Porras, Jesús Francisco Estévez
Youth injury and parents’ unemployment—the importance of socio-economic status and ethnicity context
Siman-Tov Maya, Tur-Sinai Aviad, Kolobov Tanya, Baron-Epel Orna, Harel-Fisch Yossi
Measuring multimorbidity inequality across Italy through the multisource comorbidity score: a nationwide study
Giovanni Corrao, Federico Rea, Flavia Carle, Mirko Di Martino, Rossana De Palma, Paolo Francesconi, Vito Lepore, Luca Merlino, Salvatore Scondotto, Donatella Garau, Liana Spazzafumo, Giuseppe Montagano, Elena Clagnan, Nello Martini, the working group “Monitoring and assessing care pathways (MAP)” of the Italian Ministry of Health
The impact of life course exposures to neighbourhood deprivation on health and well-being: a review of the long-term neighbourhood effects literature
Stephen Jivraj, Emily T Murray, Paul Norman, Owen Nicholas
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Editor's Choice
Natural disasters and infectious disease in Europe: a literature review to identify cascading risk pathways
Jonathan E Suk, Eleanor C Vaughan, Robert G Cook, Jan C Semenza
Occupational asbestos exposure after the ban: a job exposure matrix developed in Italy
Alberto Scarselli, Alessandro Marinaccio, Marisa Corfiati, Davide Di Marzio, Sergio Iavicoli
Impact of flooding on health-related quality of life in England: results from the National Study of Flooding and Health
Charlotte Robin, Charles Beck, Ben Armstrong, Thomas David Waite, G James Rubin, English National Study of Flooding and Health Study Group , Isabel Oliver

MENTAL HEALTH
Education as inefficient resource against depressive symptoms in the Czech Republic: cross-sectional analysis of the HAPIEE study
Pavla Cermakova, Hynek Pikhart, Ruzena Kubinova, Martin Bobak
Is impending or actual death of a spouse with dementia bad for mental health? Antidepressant use surrounding widowhood
Elina Einiö, Niina Metsä-Simola, Saska Saarioja, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen
Sociodemographic and gender determinants of late-life suicide in users and non-users of antidepressants
Khedidja Hedna, Gunnel Hensing, Ingmar Skoog, Johan Fastbom, Margda Waern
Improving mental health through neighbourhood regeneration: the role of cohesion, belonging, quality and disorder
Giles Greene, David Fone, Daniel Farewell, Sarah Rodgers, Shantini Paranjothy, Bethan Carter, James White

INFECTIOUS DISEASE
HIV prevention and treatment in Southern Europe in the aftermath of bailout programmes
Gonçalo F Augusto, Ioannis Hodges-Mameletzis, Marina Karanikolos, Alexandre Abrantes, Maria R O Martins
Sex differences in shigellosis incidence rates: analysis of national data from nine countries using meta-analytic method
Victoria Peer, Naama Schwartz, Manfred S Green
Hantavirus infections in humans in Poland—current state of knowledge and perspectives for research
Joanna Stojak

VACCINATION
Measles outbreak in Romania: understanding factors related to suboptimal vaccination uptake
Katrine Bach Habersaat, Adriana Pistol, Aurora Stanescu, Catherine Hewitt, Miljana Grbic, Cassandra Butu, Cath Jackson
Examining vaccination coverage in Germany: spatiotemporal clustering of MMR coverage, 2008–14
Cory N Spencer, Paul L Delamater

SMOKING
Uncovering TAPS strategies of the tobacco industry at PoS in low- and middle-income countries: the case of Turkey
Fatih Uznay, Sevtap Gumus
Maternal education and offspring birth weight for gestational age: the mediating effect of smoking during pregnancy
Aurélie Nakamura, Laura Pryor, Morgane Ballon, Sandrine Lioret, Barbara Heude, Marie-Aline Charles, Maria Melchior, Fabienne El-Khoury Lesueur
A comparison of self-reported to cotinine-detected smoking status among adults in Georgia
Julianne Williams, Ivo Rakovac, Enrique Loyola, Lela Sturua, Nino Maglakelidze, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Kristina Mauer-Stender, Bente Mikkelsen, João Breda

OBESITY
Socioeconomic disadvantages over the life-course and their influence on obesity among older Hong Kong Chinese adults
Gary K K Chung, Francisco T T Lai, Dicken C Chan, Hung Wong, Eng-Kiong Yeoh, Roger Y Chung
Obesity and thinness prevalence trends in Spanish schoolchildren: are they two convergent epidemics?
Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno, Ángel Herráiz-Adillo, Jose Alberto Martínez-Hortelano, Alba Soriano-Cano, Ana Díez-Fernández, Montserrat Solera-Martínez, Mairena Sánchez-López
CANCER
Cancer statistics: a comparison between World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
Camilla Mattiuzzi, Giuseppe Lippi
Citizen consultation and organized breast cancer screening
Xavier Gocko, Radia Spiga, Virginie Chel, Anthony Court, Catherine Plotton
EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS
European Public Health News
Dineke Zeegers Paget, Iveta Nagyova, Hans Henri P Kluge, Floris Barnhoorn

THANK YOU
Thank you
Peter Allebeck, Diana Delnoij, Alastair Leyland, Walter Ricciardi

CORRIGENDUM
A comparison of self-reported to cotinine-detected smoking status among adults in Georgia
Julianne Williams, Ivo Rakovac, Enrique Loyola, Lela Sturua, Nino Maglakelidze, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Kristina Mauer-Stender, Bente Mikkelsen, João Breda
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