Health Statistics Quarterly 20, Winter 2003

This issue includes coverage of:<BR> Trends in Suicide by method in England and Wales, 1979 to 2001 an update of previous analyses following the 2001 Census and extending analyses to 2001. Anita Brock and Clare Griffiths<BR> An Estimate of trends in winter mortality in England and Wales, looking at cause-specific patterns over the period 1993 2001 Helen Johnson and Clare Griffiths<BR> Trends in Social Class differences in mortality by cause, 1986 to 2000 extending previous analyses to include both sexes and the whole of the 1990s. Chris White, Folkert van Galen and Yuan Huang Chow<BR> A Report on infant and perinatal mortality by social and biological factors 2002 and an investigation into the increase of stillbirth rate in 2002 in England and Wales.