Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health articles from December 2001

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health archives from December 2001

Public health and moving upstream of terrorism. (In this number).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... In this issue, we include a number of contributions that were prompted by the terrorist atrocity in New York on 11 September. Around the world people have been struggling to come to terms with this latest manifestation of globalisation and...

Dealing with terrorism: a public health agenda. (Speaker's corner).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... For the public health community, the terrorism wreaked on the United States is stunning, but not necessarily surprising. It was a shrieking reminder to us all that desperate and hopeless peoples will follow extremist minorities, that poverty...

Response to crisis.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... I am writing from California, which is now part of a new integrated world, all connected to the events and response. It is quite clear we are living in an interconnected and often virtual world. The boundaries have disappeared. In the...

Revenge is not the answer; leadership could be.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... From a public health perspective, one of the major challenges after 11 September is whether we can build a more caring communitarian world. The signs are not good. Behind the media hype, what comes through is largely a lack of institutional...

A new international public health target.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The tragedy of New York, Washington, and Pittsburgh is both immediate and long term. Immediate in its violent loss and bereavement; the anger, anguish and personal "what ifs" that will devastate psychological wellbeing over the next few weeks...

Water, tobacco, and global inequalities. (The tech gallery).(Brief Article)(Illustration)
December 1, 2001... These photographs are used to illustrate the public health impact of lack of water and global inequalities. Southern Africa experienced one of the worst droughts in history in the early 1990s. For Mozambique, one of the world's poorest...

Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in road traffic injuries: time for a policy agenda. (Editorial).
December 1, 2001... The existence of differences in the impact of injuries among socioeconomic groups has been well documented, similarly to what is known for most health outcomes. For the case of paediatric injuries, as well as for domestic injuries, variables...

Ethics in epidemiology and public health I. Technical terms. (Glossary).(Glossary)
December 1, 2001... Ethics in epidemiology and public health has emerged from several sources: most obvious is the discipline of bioethics, with its theories, methods, case studies, and familiar textbooks. Bioethics has primarily been focused upon medical ethics...

Socioeconomic differences in road traffic injuries during childhood and youth: a closer look at different kinds of road user.
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To investigate if there are socioeconomic differences in road traffic injuries among Swedish children and adolescents, and if this applies to the same extent to all categories of road users. To assess the...

Suicide after a stroke: a population study.
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To establish whether there are increased rates of suicide after a stroke and the degree to which any increase is related to gender, age at stroke, diagnosis, duration of hospitalisation, and time since stroke....

Leg length, insulin resistance, and coronary heart disease risk: The Caerphilly Study.
December 1, 2001... Abstract Background--Adult height has been inversely associated with coronary heart disease risk in several studies. The mechanism for this association is not well understood, however, and this was investigated by examining components of...

Paternal contribution to birth weight.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--Understanding causes of variation in birth weight has been limited by lack of sufficient sets of data that include paternal birth weight. The objective was to estimate risks of low birth weight dependent on...

Are the effects of psychosocial exposures attributable to confounding? Evidence from a prospective observational study on psychological stress and mortality.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--To examine the association between perceived psychological stress and cause specific mortality in a population where perceived stress was not associated with material disadvantage. Design--Prospective...

Interval estimation of the attributable risk in case-control studies with matched pairs.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--The attributable risk (AR), which represents the proportion of cases who can be preventable when we completely eliminate a risk factor in a population, is the most commonly used epidemiological index to assess the...

Potential for bias in waiting time studies: events between enrolment and admission.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To demonstrate the effect of exclusion of data on delays in scheduling operations in calculating difference in admission rates between two enrolment periods. Design--A prospective cohort study; Outcome...

The socioeconomic status of older adults: How should we measure it in studies of health inequalities?(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population. Design--Secondary analysis...

Causation in epidemiology.
December 1, 2001... Abstract Causation is an essential concept in epidemiology, yet there is no single, clearly articulated definition for the discipline. From a systematic review of the literature, five categories can be delineated: production, necessary...

Assessing socioeconomic effects on different sized populations: To weight or not to weight?(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--Researchers in health care often use ecological data from population aggregates of different sizes. This paper deals with a fundamental methodological issue relating to the use of such data. This study investigates...

Community health risk assessment after a fire with asbestos containing fallout.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Background--A factory fire in Tranmere, Merseyside, England, deposited asbestos containing fallout in an urban area. There was considerable community anxiety for months after the incident. Therefore an assessment of the long...

Indoor heating, house conditions, and health.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Many studies have shown a relation between damp housing and health, (1-3) however, there has been relatively little research concerned with the effect of cold homes on health. Recent evidence has suggested that inability to keep a house warm...

The dynamics of heroin use; implications for intervention.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To use a readily available dataset to detect periods of epidemic change and to examine the progression of heroin epidemics in different geographical areas. To consider the implications of epidemic change for...

Hepatitis B immunisation of household contacts: retrospective study of vaccine coverage.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... The United Kingdom has a policy of selective hepatitis B immunisation of people at high risk of infection including sexual or close household contacts of a case or carrier of hepatitis B, and babies born to infected mothers. (1 2)Risk of...

The widening gap: health inequalities and policy in Britain.
December 1, 2001... The widening gap: health inequalities and policy in Britain. Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon, George Davey Smith. (PP 267; [pounds sterling]16.99.) The Policy Press. ISBN 1-86134-142-3. The Whitehall Study and Black Report, both...