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In this issue

  • WHAT IS STOCHASTICISM ANYWAY? THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF POLICY MAKING AND ALL THAT

    • John R Ashton,
    • Carlos Alvarez-Dardet
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 473 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.473

Civil unrest

  • Mental health and “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland: implications of civil unrest for health and wellbeing

    • C C Kelleher
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 474-475 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.474

Statistics

  • Routine statistics: more interest is needed

    • F Paccaud
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 476-477 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.476

Causation in epidemiology

  • Determinism versus stochasticism: in support of long coffee breaks

    • C C Tam,
    • B A Lopman
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 477-478 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.477

The JECH gallery

  • Pseudoreplication

    • M P Freeman
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 479 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.479

Aphorism of the month

  • “You shouldn’t be in public health if you can’t start a rumour”

    • John R Ashton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 479 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.479-a

Glossary

  • Basic glossary on genetic epidemiology

    • N Malats,
    • F Calafell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 480-482 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.480

Speaker's corner

  • The urge for evidence based knowledge

    • L D Castiel
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 482 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.482

Public health policy and practice

  • The unbearable lightness of healthcare policy making: a description of a process aimed at giving it some weight

    • I B Scheel,
    • K B Hagen,
    • A D Oxman
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 483-487 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.483

  • Mental health in Northern Ireland: have “the Troubles” made it worse?

    • D O’Reilly,
    • M Stevenson
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 488-492 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.488

  • Infant mortality and family welfare: policy implications for Indonesia

    • S Poerwanto,
    • M Stevenson,
    • N de Klerk
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 493-498 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.493

  • Water fluoridation, stillbirths, and congenital abnormalities

    • R Lowry,
    • N Steen,
    • J Rankin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 499-500 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.499

Research reports

  • Education and income: which is more important for mental health?

    • R Araya,
    • G Lewis,
    • G Rojas,
    • R Fritsch
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 501-505 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.501

  • Gender differences in education related health inequalities in Chinese northern rural areas: 1993 and 2001

    • J Wu,
    • Y L Lie,
    • K Q Rao,
    • J C Qian,
    • R W Ye,
    • Q Sun,
    • C Y Li,
    • Z Li
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 506-507 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.506

  • Childhood social class and adulthood obesity: findings from the Glasgow Alumni Cohort

    • M Okasha,
    • P McCarron,
    • J McEwen,
    • J Durnin,
    • G Davey Smith
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 508-509 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.508

  • Nitrate in community water supplies and incidence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Sardinia, Italy

    • P Cocco,
    • G Broccia,
    • G Aru,
    • P Casula,
    • S Muntoni,
    • K P Cantor,
    • M H Ward
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 510-511 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.510

  • Motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status: a cohort study with prospective and retrospective driver injuries

    • G Whitlock,
    • R Norton,
    • T Clark,
    • M Pledger,
    • R Jackson,
    • S MacMahon
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 512-516 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.512

  • Physical inactivity: a risk factor for low back pain in the general population?

    • H S J Picavet,
    • A J Schuit
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 517-518 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.517

  • Community income and surgical rates in the Netherlands

    • G P Westert,
    • J P J M Smits,
    • J J Polder,
    • J P Mackenbach
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 519-522 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.519

  • Socioeconomic deprivation, travel distance, and renal replacement therapy in the Trent Region, United Kingdom 2000: an ecological study

    • R Maheswaran,
    • N Payne,
    • D Meechan,
    • R P Burden,
    • P R Fryers,
    • J Wight,
    • A Hutchinson
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 523-524 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.523

  • Elderly people and the public health service: a much desirable marriage

    • A Mariotto,
    • M Dello Buono,
    • D De Leo
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 525-526 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.525

Theory and methods

  • Evidence, hierarchies, and typologies: horses for courses

    • M Petticrew,
    • H Roberts
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 527-529 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.527

  • Missing, mediocre, or merely obsolete? An evaluation of UK data sources for coronary heart disease

    • B Unal,
    • J A Critchley,
    • S Capewell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 530-535 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.530

  • Effects of disseminating research findings on response rates in a community survey: a randomised controlled trial

    • D S Morrison,
    • H Thomson,
    • M Petticrew
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 536-537 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.536

  • Performance of the WHO Rose angina questionnaire in post-menopausal women: Are all of the questions necessary?

    • D A Lawlor,
    • J Adamson,
    • S Ebrahim
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 538-541 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.538

Book reviews

  • Ethnicity, class and health: J Y Nazroo. (Pp 196; £14.95). Policy Studies Institute, 2001. ISBN 0-85374-792-X.

    • Richard Morrow
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 542 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.542

  • Hospitals in a changing Europe: Edited by M McKee, J Healy. Open University Press, Buckingham, 2002. (Pp 288; £65.00 (hbk), £22.50 (pbk)). ISBN 0-335-20929-7 (hbk), 0-335-20928-9 (pbk)

    • Agneta Kullén Engström
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 542 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.542-a

  • Statistics at square one, 10th edn: T D V Swinscow, M J Campbell. (Pp 158; £11.95). BMJ Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7279-1552-5.

    • Bart Michiels
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 542 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.542-b

  • Evidence-based public health: R C Brownson, E A Baker, T I Leet, K N Gillespie. (Pp 235; $C69.95). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. ISBN 0-19-514376-0

    • Milos Jenicek
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 542-543 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.542-c

  • Textbook of cancer epidemiology: Edited by H O Adami, D Hunter, D Trichopoulos. Oxford University Press, 2002. Vol 33 in the Series “Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics”. (Pp 599; £50, €75). ISBN 0-19-510969-4.

    • Miquel Porta
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 543 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.543

  • Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in European health care systems: Edited by R B Saltman, R Busse, E Mossialos. (Pp 240; £22.50 (pbk), £65.00 (hbk)). Open University Press, Buckingham, 2002. ISBN 0-335-20922-X (pbk); 0-335-20923-8 (hbk)

    • Luke Clancy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 543 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.543-a

Hygieia

  • Hygieia

    • M Muir
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:7 544 doi:10.1136/jech.57.7.544

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