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In this issue

  • A watershed-trouble making for health features in an issue with plenty to debate

    • Carlos Alvarez-Dardet,
    • John R Ashton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 629

Global health

  • From charity to rights: proposal for five action areas of global health

    • Ilona Kickbusch
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 630-631 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.021121

Information

  • The dangers of “spin”: information, science, security, and welfare

    • Nancy Milio
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 631-632 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.024307

Data, "race", and politics

  • Data, “race,” and politics: a commentary on the epidemiological significance of California’s Proposition 54

    • Nancy Krieger
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 632-633 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.018549

The JECH gallery

  • Life and death, day after day

    • J Jaime Miranda
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 633 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.021394

  • Small steps

    • David S Morrison
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 679 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.021576

  • The National School Fruit Scheme in England

    • Mary Shaw
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 722 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.021337

Speaker's corner

  • Two information dissemination approaches for public health decision makers: encyclopaedia and fire alarm

    • Bernard C K Choi,
    • Anna Orlova,
    • Marsha Marsh,
    • Nabil Issa,
    • Howard Morrison
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 634

Continuing professional education

  • Bias

    • M Delgado-Rodríguez,
    • J Llorca
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 635-641 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.008466

Evidence based public health policy and practice

  • Health impact assessment for the sustainable futures of Salford

    • Calbert H Douglas,
    • Alan Higgins,
    • Chris Dabbs,
    • Mick Walbank
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 642-648 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.010397

  • Did Finland’s Tobacco Control Act of 1976 have an impact on ever smoking? An examination based on male and female cohort trends

    • S Helakorpi,
    • T Martelin,
    • J Torppa,
    • K Patja,
    • E Vartiainen,
    • A Uutela
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 649-654 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.015925

  • Equity of access to health care: outlining the foundations for action

    • Adam Oliver,
    • Elias Mossialos
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 655-658 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.017731

  • Compression, expansion, or dynamic equilibrium? The evolution of health expectancy in New Zealand

    • Patrick Graham,
    • Tony Blakely,
    • Peter Davis,
    • Andrew Sporle,
    • Neil Pearce
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 659-666 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.014910

Research reports

  • Association of quality of life in old age in Britain with socioeconomic position: baseline data from a randomised controlled trial

    • Elizabeth Breeze,
    • Dee A Jones,
    • Paul Wilkinson,
    • Amina M Latif,
    • Christopher J Bulpitt,
    • Astrid E Fletcher
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 667-673 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.014035

  • Cognitive performance in childhood and early adult illness: a prospective cohort study

    • Laurie T Martin,
    • Garrett M Fitzmaurice,
    • Daniel J Kindlon,
    • Stephen L Buka
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 674-679 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.016444

  • Unintentional and violent injuries among pre-school children of teenage mothers in Sweden: a national cohort study

    • Cecilia Ekéus,
    • Kyllike Christensson,
    • Anders Hjern
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 680-685 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.015255

  • Residential area deprivation predicts fruit and vegetable consumption independently of individual educational level and occupational social class: a cross sectional population study in the Norfolk cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk)

    • Shamarina Shohaimi,
    • Ailsa Welch,
    • Sheila Bingham,
    • Robert Luben,
    • Nicholas Day,
    • Nicholas Wareham,
    • Kay-Tee Khaw
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 686-691 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.008490

  • Associations of smoking prevalence with individual and area level social cohesion

    • Joan M Patterson,
    • Lynn E Eberly,
    • Yingmei Ding,
    • Margaret Hargreaves
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 692-697 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.009167

  • Self perceived health and smoking in adolescents

    • Cristina Rius,
    • Esteve Fernandez,
    • Anna Schiaffino,
    • Josep Maria Borràs,
    • Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 698-699 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.008516

  • Sex differences in body fat distribution and carotid intima media thickness: cross sectional survey using data from the British regional heart study

    • Debbie A Lawlor,
    • Shah Ebrahim,
    • Peter Whincup,
    • Jonathan Sterne,
    • Olia Papacosta,
    • Goya Wannamethee,
    • Surinder Dhanjil,
    • Maura Griffin,
    • Andrew N Nicolaides,
    • George Davey Smith
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 700-704 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.014001

  • Can cardiovascular risk factors and lifestyle explain the educational inequalities in mortality from ischaemic heart disease and from other heart diseases? 26 year follow up of 50 000 Norwegian men and women

    • Bjørn Heine Strand,
    • Aage Tverdal
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 705-709 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.014563

  • Sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension: the 10-town study

    • Mika Kivimäki,
    • Pauli Forma,
    • Juhani Wikström,
    • Tuomo Halmeenmäki,
    • Jaana Pentti,
    • Marko Elovainio,
    • Jussi Vahtera
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 710-711 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.015842

Echoes

  • Potential research participants’ views regarding researcher and institutional financial conflicts of interest

    • S Y H Kim,
    • R W Millard,
    • P Nisbet,
    • C Cox,
    • E D Caine
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 673

Theory and methods

  • A simple model for potential use with a misclassified binary outcome in epidemiology

    • S W Duffy,
    • J Warwick,
    • A R W Williams,
    • H Keshavarz,
    • F Kaffashian,
    • T E Rohan,
    • F Nili,
    • A Sadeghi-Hassanabadi
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 712-717 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.010546

  • Inter-rater agreement in defining chemical incidents at the National Poisons Information Service, London

    • I Abubakar,
    • G S Leonardi,
    • N Edwards,
    • N Herriott
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 718-722 doi:10.1136/jech.2002.006650

Aphorism of the month

  • “The following is my entire establishment… your servant, William Henry Duncan”

    • John R Ashton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 717

  • Global public health: a new era

    • Douglas W Bettcher
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 723

  • Under the banyan tree: a population scientist’s odyssey

    • John C Caldwell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 723

Hygieia

  • Hygieia

    J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:8 724

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