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In this issue

  • A cri de coeur against the "marketisation" of public health

    • John R Ashton,
    • Carlos Alvarez-Dardet
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1009

Public health

  • Choosing or losing health?

    • David J Hunter
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1010-1013 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.035121

Conceptual tools

  • Conceptual diagrams in public health research

    • Yin Paradies,
    • Matthew Stevens
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1012-1013 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036913

Continuing professional education

  • Negro, Black, Black African, African Caribbean, African American or what? Labelling African origin populations in the health arena in the 21st century

    • Charles Agyemang,
    • Raj Bhopal,
    • Marc Bruijnzeels
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1014-1018 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.035964

  • Terms in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology: 2. Perinatal terms

    • Ruby H N Nguyen,
    • Allen J Wilcox
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1019-1021 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.023465

  • A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health

    • Juan Merlo,
    • Basile Chaix,
    • Min Yang,
    • John Lynch,
    • Lennart Råstam
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1022-1029 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.028035

Speaker's corner

  • The question is not: “Is race or class more important?”

    • Paula Braveman
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1029

Evidence based public health policy and practice

  • Diseases of comfort: primary cause of death in the 22nd century

    • Bernard C K Choi,
    • David J Hunter,
    • Walter Tsou,
    • Peter Sainsbury
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1030-1034 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.032805

  • Large scale food retailing as an intervention for diet and health: quasi-experimental evaluation of a natural experiment

    • Steven Cummins,
    • Mark Petticrew,
    • Cassie Higgins,
    • Anne Findlay,
    • Leigh Sparks
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1035-1040 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.029843

  • Population impact of stricter adherence to recommendations for pharmacological and lifestyle interventions over one year in patients with coronary heart disease

    • I Gemmell,
    • R F Heller,
    • P McElduff,
    • K Payne,
    • G Butler,
    • R Edwards,
    • M Roland,
    • P Durrington
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1041-1046 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.035717

The JECH gallery

  • From steam engines to Sunny Delight

    • S C J Cummins,
    • M Petticrew,
    • C Higgins,
    • L Sparks,
    • A Findlay
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1034

  • Guinness Record Healthy Breakfast day to promote healthy eating

    • Albert Lee
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1053

  • The words of the prophets

    • David S Morrison
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1085

  • Visual impairment and new technologies

    • Mary E Shaw,
    • Mark Kirkham
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1101

Research reports

  • Trends in the sex ratio of California births, 1960–1996

    • Daniel Smith,
    • Julie Von Behren
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1047-1053 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036970

  • The burden of food related ill health in the UK

    • Mike Rayner,
    • Peter Scarborough
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1054-1057 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036491

  • Contextual effect on mortality of neighbourhood level education explained by earlier life deprivation

    • Øyvind Næss,
    • Alastair H Leyland,
    • George Davey Smith,
    • Bjorgulf Claussen
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1058-1059 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036822

  • Maternal mental health and child nutritional status in four developing countries

    • Trudy Harpham,
    • Sharon Huttly,
    • Mary J De Silva,
    • Tanya Abramsky
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1060-1064 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.039180

  • Youth smoking risk and community patterns of alcohol availability and control: a national multilevel study

    • Elissa R Weitzman,
    • Ying-Yeh Chen,
    • S V Subramanian
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1065-1071 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.033183

  • Multilevel analysis of associations between socioeconomic status and injury among Canadian adolescents

    • Kelly Simpson,
    • Ian Janssen,
    • Wendy M Craig,
    • William Pickett
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1072-1077 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036723

  • Dose and duration of hormone use: understanding the effects of combined menopausal hormones on breast cancer better, 1976–2004

    • Klim McPherson,
    • Rebecca Mant
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1078-1079 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.035147

  • Income as mediator of the effect of occupation on the risk of myocardial infarction: does the income measurement matter?

    • Ingelise Andersen,
    • Michael Gamborg,
    • Merete Osler,
    • Eva Prescott,
    • Finn Diderichsen
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1080-1085 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036848

  • What makes an ad a cigarette ad? Commercial tobacco imagery in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual press

    • Elizabeth A Smith,
    • Naphtali Offen,
    • Ruth E Malone
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1086-1091 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038760

Theory and methods

  • Linking environmental effects to health impacts: a computer modelling approach for air pollution

    • Jennifer Mindell,
    • Roger Barrowcliffe
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1092-1098 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036897

  • A monetary incentive increases postal survey response rates for pharmacists

    • Christine L Paul,
    • Raoul A Walsh,
    • Flora Tzelepis
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1099-1101 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.037143

  • The changing face of disease: implications for society

    • Shona Wynd
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1102

  • A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts

    • Josep Bernabeu-Mestre
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1102

  • Health in the Americas

    • María Sillero-Arenas
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1102-1103

Aphorism of the month

  • "Life is a mixture of risks, what would a risk-free life be like?--life is a process of selecting a cause of death"

    • Lowell Levin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1103

Hygieia

  • Hygieia

    • Michael Muir
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:12 1104

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