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February 2006, Volume 60, Issue 2

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  1. In this issue
  2. Research methods
  3. Pharmacology
  4. The JECH gallery
  5. Speaker's corner
  6. Continuing professional education
  7. Literature and epidemiology
  8. Research reports
  9. Aphorism of the month
  10. Theory and methods
  11. Hygieia
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In this issue

  • In this issue

    • Carlos Alvarez-Dardet,
    • John R Ashton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 89

Research methods

  • Systematic reviews of meta-analyses: applications and limitations

    • Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 90-92 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.035253

Pharmacology

  • Where now for pharmacist led medication review?

    • Richard Holland,
    • Richard Smith,
    • Ian Harvey
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 92-93 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.035188

The JECH gallery

  • Credit unions: “a proud history of protecting the poor”

    • John R Ashton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 93

  • Love pounds, tons of inequities

    • E Espinoza
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 101

Speaker's corner

  • Licensing Britain’s alcohol epidemic

    • Kieran J Moriarty,
    • Ian T Gilmore
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 94

Continuing professional education

  • Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2)

    • Bruna Galobardes,
    • Mary Shaw,
    • Debbie A Lawlor,
    • John W Lynch,
    • George Davey Smith
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 95-101 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.028092

Literature and epidemiology

  • Paths to and from poverty in late 19th century novels

    • Philippa Howden-Chapman,
    • Ichiro Kawachi
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 102-107 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038794

Research reports

  • Do urban regeneration programmes improve public health and reduce health inequalities? A synthesis of the evidence from UK policy and practice (1980–2004)

    • Hilary Thomson,
    • Rowland Atkinson,
    • Mark Petticrew,
    • Ade Kearns
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 108-115 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038885

  • Bonding versus bridging social capital and their associations with self rated health: a multilevel analysis of 40 US communities

    • D Kim,
    • S V Subramanian,
    • I Kawachi
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 116-122 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038281

  • Acceptability of domestic violence against women in the European Union: a multilevel analysis

    • Enrique Gracia,
    • Juan Herrero
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 123-129 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036533

  • Socioeconomic determinants of health related quality of life in childhood and adolescence: results from a European study

    • Ursula von Rueden,
    • Angela Gosch,
    • Luis Rajmil,
    • Corinna Bisegger,
    • Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer,
    • the European KIDSCREEN group
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 130-135 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.039792

  • Roads, railways, and childhood cancers

    • E G Knox
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 136-141 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.042036

  • Could dehydration in infancy lead to high blood pressure?

    • George Davey Smith,
    • Sam Leary,
    • Sam Ness,
    • The ALSPAC Study Team
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 142-143 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.040006

  • Birth weight, adult blood pressure, and blood pressure reactions to acute psychological stress

    • Douglas Carroll,
    • George Davey Smith,
    • Anna C Phillips,
    • Christopher Ring,
    • Patrick West
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 144-145 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.039305

  • Breast feeding is related to C reactive protein concentration in adult women

    • M J A Williams,
    • S M Williams,
    • R Poulton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 146-148 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.039222

  • Is there a “school effect” on pupil outcomes? A review of multilevel studies

    • E Sellström,
    • S Bremberg
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 149-155 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036707

  • Country material distribution and adolescents’ perceived health: multilevel study of adolescents in 27 countries

    • Torbjorn Torsheim,
    • Candace Currie,
    • Will Boyce,
    • Oddrun Samdal
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 156-161 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.037655

  • Children’s use of general practitioner services in the five Nordic countries

    • J I Virtanen,
    • L T Berntsson,
    • E Lahelma,
    • L Köhler
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 162-167 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.042390

  • Bladder cancer mortality and private well use in New England: an ecological study

    • Joseph D Ayotte,
    • Dalsu Baris,
    • Kenneth P Cantor,
    • Joanne Colt,
    • Gilpin R Robinson, Jr,
    • Jay H Lubin,
    • Margaret Karagas,
    • Robert N Hoover,
    • Joseph F Fraumeni, Jr,
    • Debra T Silverman
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 168-172 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038620

  • Associations between exposure to ambient photochemical oxidants and the vitality or mental health domain of the health related quality of life

    • Shin Yamazaki,
    • Hiroshi Nitta,
    • Shunichi Fukuhara
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 173-179 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.039560

Aphorism of the month

  • “It is necessary to distinguish between health promotion and promoting health.”

    • Lowell Levin,
    • John R Ashton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 115

Theory and methods

  • Investigating the relation between placement of Quit antismoking advertisements and number of telephone calls to Quitline: a semiparametric modelling approach

    • Bircan Erbas,
    • Quang Bui,
    • Richard Huggins,
    • Todd Harper,
    • Victoria White
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 180-182 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038109

  • Change in sex ratio at birth in Sardasht (north west of Iran) after chemical bombardment

    • Mostafa Saadat
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 183 doi:10.1136/jech.2005.040964

Hygieia

  • Hygieia

    • Michael Muir
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:2 184

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