Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health articles from April 2001

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health archives from April 2001

The future, complexity, death and surprise.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... During the past months, I have almost been overwhelmed by the deaths of friends. I had never believed that I would be awash in all this death and dying. The earlier dying of my parents was calmer, and almost expected. My mum's death is less...

Health Impact Assessment--and beyond.
April 1, 2001... National and international pressure is growing for public policies and programmes to be prospectively evaluated to determine what their impacts will be on public health. This is evident from statements from bodies including the WHO, [1] the...

Household energy, health and development.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Almost half of the world's population, between 2 and 3 billion people, still rely on simple bio-mass fuels (wood, animal dung, crop wastes) and coal for their everyday cooking and heating needs. Often burned indoors on simple, inefficient...

Glossaries in public health: older people.(Glossary)
April 1, 2001... Humanity is growing older. The falls in mortality and fertility rates occurring in all but sub-Saharan African counties have brought the issue of population aging, and the associated changes in disease burdens and health care provision, into...

Self rated health and mortality: a long term prospective study in eastern Finland.
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To assess the relation between self rated health and mortality over a period of 23 years, taking into account medical history, cardiovascular risk factors, and education at the beginning of the follow up. ...

Longitudinal study of associations between perceived health status and self reported diseases in the French Gazel cohort.
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--Although perceived health status is an indicator widely used in epidemiological studies, its relation to various diseases is not well known. The objective of this study is to examine these relations in detail. ...

Material deprivation and leading causes of death by gender: evidence from a nationwide small area study.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Borrell, C Saez, M Pasarin, M I Abstract Study objective--To investigate the association between material deprivation and 10 leading causes of death by gender. Design--Small area cross sectional ecological study using two...

Neighbourhood level and individual level SES effects on child problem behaviour: a multilevel analysis.(socioeconomic status)
April 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--This study examined whether neighbourhood level socioeconomic variables have an independent effect on reported child behaviour problems over and above the effect of individual level measures of socioeconomic status. ...

Hepatitis A vaccination during an outbreak among gay men in Montreal, Canada, 1995-1997.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To evaluate an intervention designed to curtail an outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men, especially the young and sexually active, by promoting their free vaccination. Design--The study analysed routine...

Health promotion research: dilemmas and challenges.
April 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To analyse dilemmas and challenges in health promotion research, and to generate ideas for future development. Method--The analysis is based on authors' experiences in working in the field of research and action in...

An analysis of health levels and various indicators of urban environments for Healthy Cities projects.
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--(1) To identify and to categorise the various city indicators that are related to health levels; (2) to demonstrate the extent of the influence on health of these categorised health determinants; and (3) to...

Non-communicable disease mortality rates using the verbal autopsy in a cohort of middle aged and older populations in Beirut during wartime, 1983-93.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--Health priorities in middle to low income countries, such as Lebanon, have traditionally been assumed to follow those of a "typical" developing country, with a focus on the young and on communicable diseases....

Evaluation of "Live for Life", a health promotion programme in the County of Skaraborg, Sweden.
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To evaluate a health promotion programme, combining a population and individual based strategy, in the County of Skaraborg, Sweden, with special attention to outcome. Design--The evaluation was subdivided into...

Dramatic decline of serogroup C meningococcal disease incidence in Catalonia (Spain) 24 months after a mass vaccination programme of children and young people.
April 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a mass vaccination programme carried out in Catalonia (Spain) in the last quarter of 1997 in response to an upsurge of serogroup C meningococcal...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
April 1, 2001... Measuring demographic group differences in cardiovascular reactivity to stress using a mental challenge in the laboratory: problems of interpretation EDITOR,--In their recent paper Carroll et al [1] showed that men and women in non-manual...