Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004;58:805
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Time for poetry
Carlos Alvarez-Dardet,
John R Ashton, Joint Editors
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TIME FOR POETRY
In this months issue the Journal breaks new ground by breaking into verse. For the next few months we will be carrying poems on environmental health themes from the Liverpool poet, Levi Tafari. Levi can be seen performing these poems, in the company of local children, by logging on to the Journal web site (http://www.jech.com/misc/poems.shtml). We hope that this innovation will encourage other contributions in a more cultural vein.
See page 810
In an issue with more than the usual number of papers in the Policy and Practice section, we also carry two important editorials: one from one of the fathers of modern urban health, Len Duhl, reflecting on the paradigms underpinning Healthy Cities; another from Giovanni Rezza reflecting on whether avian flu will inevitably lead to a human pandemic. He concludes that although another influenza pandemic in humans is inevitable, we cannot predict when it will occur, . . . [Full text of this article]
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