Table of contents

Research Article

• The philosophical foundations of public health: an invitation to debate. (1 February, 1994)

  H G Nijhuis, L J van der Maesen
• Two classes of creativity--improving systematic reviews. (1 February, 1994)

  J A Muir Gray
• The Cochrane Lecture. The best and the enemy of the good: randomised controlled trials, uncertainty, and assessing the role of patient choice in medical decision making. (1 February, 1994)

  K McPherson
• Health and health care of rural populations in the UK: is it better or worse? (1 February, 1994)

  I S Watt, A J Franks, T A Sheldon
• Randomised controlled trial in northern England of the effect of a person knowing their own serum cholesterol concentration. (1 February, 1994)

  P J Elton, A Ryman, M Hammer, F Page
• Demographic and dietary profiles of high and low fat consumers in Australia. (1 February, 1994)

  K I Baghurst, P A Baghurst, S J Record
• Recurrence of acute otitis media at preschool age in Sweden. (1 February, 1994)

  F Rasmussen
• Smoking and drinking habits before and during pregnancy in Spanish women. (1 February, 1994)

  F Bolumar, M Rebagliato, I Hernandez-Aguado, C D Florey
• An outbreak of illness among schoolchildren in London: toxic poisoning not mass hysteria. (1 February, 1994)

  J C Aldous, G A Ellam, V Murray, G Pike
• Three year follow up study of national influenza vaccination practices in Japan. (1 February, 1994)

  S Morio, N Okamoto, A Kawamoto, A Suyama, M Okamoto, H Nakayama
• Why don't more young men in the UK become fathers? (1 February, 1994)

  A Cartwright
• HIV surveillance by testing saliva from injecting drug users: a national study in New Zealand. (1 February, 1994)

  N P Dickson, F J Austin, C Paul, K J Sharples, D C Skegg
• Appropriate indications for prostatectomy in the UK--results of a consensus panel. (1 February, 1994)

  D J Hunter, C M McKee, C F Sanderson, N A Black
• Prospective study of predictors of attendance for breast screening in inner London. (1 February, 1994)

  S Sutton, G Bickler, J Sancho-Aldridge, G Saidi
• Is use of hospital services a proxy for morbidity? A small area comparison of the prevalence of arthritis, depression, dyspepsia, obesity, and respiratory disease with inpatient admission rates for these disorders in England. (1 February, 1994)

  J N Payne, J Coy, S Patterson, P C Milner
• Epidemiology and causation: a realist view. (1 February, 1994)

  A Renton
• Measuring health status in the community: a comparison of methods. (1 February, 1994)

  P Kind, C M Gudex
• General practitioner notes as a source of information for case-control studies in young women. UK National Case-Control Study Group. (1 February, 1994)

  C E Chilvers, M C Pike, C N Taylor, C Hermon, B Crossley, S J Smith
• Neural tube defects in Newfoundland. (1 February, 1994)

  M F Frecker
• Collaborative Registry of Smoking Cessation Trials. (1 February, 1994)

  C Silagy, G Fowler
• Longitudinal and cross sectional mortality studies in injecting drug-users. (1 February, 1994)

  M Davoli, F Forastiere, D D Abeni, E Rapiti, C A Perucci