In this issue
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
In this age of globalisation and the free market, robust political analysis of politics and health has become rare at the same time as publications on inequalities in health have exploded. Miquel Porta argues in this month’s Speakers’ Corner that publishing on public health topics has become a Russian Roulette. We go some way to redress this with an Editorial from Borrell and colleagues, in which they cite Navarro’s recent book to explore a framework that relates politics and policies on socioeconomic health inequalities.
See pages 658 and 722
In Public Health Past and Present, Curtis tackles the natural history of hygiene (an unfashionable term, but one at the heart of the discipline and practice of public health). She argues that hygiene has an ancient evolutionary history, and that most animals exhibit such behaviours because they have been adaptive. In humans, the avoidance of infectious threats is motivated by the
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Articles
- Politics and health
- Carme Borrell, Albert Espelt, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, and Vincente Navarro
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 658-659.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Dirt, disgust and disease: a natural history of hygiene
- Valerie A Curtis
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 660-664.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Effect of socioeconomic status on the relationship between atmospheric pollution and mortality
- Olivier Laurent, Denis Bard, Laurent Filleul, and Claire Segala
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 665-675.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Violence: a glossary
- Alison Rutherford, Anthony B Zwi, Natalie J Grove, and Alexander Butchart
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 676-680.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Greenspace, urbanity and health: relationships in England
- Richard Mitchell and Frank Popham
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 681-683.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- A sense of coherence and health. Salutogenesis in a societal context: Åland, a special case?
- Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, and John Lilja
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 684-688.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Could targeted food taxes improve health?
- Oliver Mytton, Alastair Gray, Mike Rayner, and Harry Rutter
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 689-694.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Milk and dairy consumption, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome: the Caerphilly prospective study
- Peter C Elwood, Janet E Pickering, and Ann M Fehily
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 695-698.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Does the school fruit and vegetable scheme improve children’s diet? A non-randomised controlled trial
- J K Ransley, D C Greenwood, J E Cade, S Blenkinsop, I Schagen, D Teeman, E Scott, G White, and S Schagen
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 699-703.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Age and follow-up time affect the prognostic value of the ECG and conventional cardiovascular risk factors for stroke in adult men
- Christina Ström Möller, Jonas Häggström, Björn Zethelius, Bernice Wiberg, Johan Sundström, and Lars Lind
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 704-712.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Decline and loss of birth seasonality in Spain: analysis of 33 421 731 births over 60 years
- Ramón Cancho-Candela, Jesús María Andrés-de Llano, and Julio Ardura-Fernández
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 713-718.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Outdoor air pollution and infant mortality: analysis of daily time-series data in 10 English cities
- Shakoor Hajat, Ben Armstrong, Paul Wilkinson, Araceli Busby, and Helen Dolk
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 719-722.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Publishing has become a "Russian roulette"
- M Porta
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 722.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood: evidence from the Alameda County Study
- Gavin Turrell, John W Lynch, Claudia Leite, Trivellore Raghunathan, and George A Kaplan
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 723-730.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Does young adult suicide cluster geographically in Scotland?
- Daniel J Exeter and Paul J Boyle
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 731-736.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- A prospective study of polymorphisms of DNA repair genes XRCC1, XPD23 and APE/ref-1 and risk of stroke in Linxian, China
- Somdat Mahabir, Christian C Abnet, You-Lin Qiao, Luke D Ratnasinghe, Sanford M Dawsey, Zhi-Wei Dong, Philip R Taylor, and Steven D Mark
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 737-741.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Building the backbone for organisational research in public health systems: development of measures of organisational capacity for chronic disease prevention
- Nancy Hanusaik, Jennifer L O’Loughlin, Natalie Kishchuk, John Eyles, Kerry Robinson, and Roy Cameron
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 61: 742-749.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
