A comparison of the cancer-related mortality of France and Italy using the multiple cause-of-death approach • Aline Desesquelles, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Antonio Salvatore, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" ; Marilena Pappagallo, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Luisa Frova, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Monica Pace, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Viviana Egidi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Association between metabolic risk factors and cardiovascular disease mortality: population-level analysis in high income countries • Mariachiara Di Cesare, Imperial College London ; James Bennett, Imperial College London ; Nicky Best, Imperial College London ; Sylvia Richardson, Imperial College London ; Majid Ezzati, Harvard University

Adult mortality in the Asian part of the former USSR: similarity and disparity of epidemiological profiles in Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan • Géraldine Duthé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Michel Guillot, University of Pennsylvania ; France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Jacques Vallin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Irina Badurashvili, Georgian Centre of Population Research ; Karine Kuyumjyan, National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia ; Liudmila Torgasheva, NSC Kyrgyzstan ; Mikhail B. Denissenko, Moscow State University

Occupational inequalities in cause-specific and all-cause mortality in Europe • Marlen Toch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ; Gwenn Menvielle, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) ; Terje A. Eikemo, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam ; Johan P. Mackenbach, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam

The health status of Turkish immigrants in Germany • Annelene Wengler, University of Cologne