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Evidence based public health policy and practice

• Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 1: The reality according to policymakers (13 September, 2004)

  Mark Petticrew, Margaret Whitehead, Sally J Macintyre, Hilary Graham, Matt Egan
• Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 2: Assembling the evidence jigsaw (13 September, 2004)

  Margaret Whitehead, Mark Petticrew, Hilary Graham, Sally J Macintyre, Clare Bambra, Matt Egan
• To control and beyond: moving towards eliminating the global tuberculosis threat (13 September, 2004)

  Timothy F Brewer, S Jody Heymann
• Malaria, from natural to supernatural: a qualitative study of mothers’ reactions to fever (Dienga, Gabon) (13 September, 2004)

  Hugo Pilkington, Justice Mayombo, Nicolas Aubouy, Philippe Deloron
• Apheis: public health impact of PM₁₀ in 19 European cities

  (13 September, 2004)

  S Medina, A Plasencia, F Ballester, H G Mücke, J Schwartz
• Evaluation of the health effects of a neighbourhood traffic calming scheme (13 September, 2004)

  David S Morrison, Hilary Thomson, Mark Petticrew
• Safer storage of firearms at home and risk of suicide: a study of protective factors in a nationally representative sample (13 September, 2004)

  Edmond D Shenassa, Michelle L Rogers, Kirsten L Spalding, Mary B Roberts
• Post-intervention effect of a computer tailored smoking cessation programme (13 September, 2004)

  Jean-François Etter, Thomas V Perneger
• Infections, medication use, and the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in childhood (13 September, 2004)

  Catherine Cohet, Soo Cheng, Claire MacDonald, Michael Baker, Sunia Foliaki, Nyk Huntington, Jeroen Douwes, Neil Pearce