August 2004, Volume 58, Issue 8

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

• Carlos Alvarez-Dardet,
• John R Ashton

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

• Ilona Kickbusch

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

• Nancy Milio

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

• Nancy Krieger

Life and death, day after day

• J Jaime Miranda

Small steps

• David S Morrison

The National School Fruit Scheme in England

• Mary Shaw

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

Bias

• M Delgado-Rodríguez,
• J Llorca

Health impact assessment for the sustainable futures of Salford

• Calbert H Douglas,
• Alan Higgins,
• Chris Dabbs,
• Mick Walbank

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

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

• Adam Oliver,
• Elias Mossialos

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

• Patrick Graham,
• Tony Blakely,
• Peter Davis,
• Andrew Sporle,
• Neil Pearce

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

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

• Laurie T Martin,
• Garrett M Fitzmaurice,
• Daniel J Kindlon,
• Stephen L Buka

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

• Cecilia Ekéus,
• Kyllike Christensson,
• Anders Hjern

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

Associations of smoking prevalence with individual and area level social cohesion

• Joan M Patterson,
• Lynn E Eberly,
• Yingmei Ding,
• Margaret Hargreaves

Self perceived health and smoking in adolescents

• Cristina Rius,
• Esteve Fernandez,
• Anna Schiaffino,
• Josep Maria Borràs,
• Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

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

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

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

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

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

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

• I Abubakar,
• G S Leonardi,
• N Edwards,
• N Herriott

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

• John R Ashton

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