Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health articles from January 2002

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health archives from January 2002

Taking Stock: Four years of the New Editorial Team. (In this Issue).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In this issue the eclecticism of public health is most apparent, and our new sections begin to demonstrate the tapestry of the discipline. From scandals in medical practice, with organ retention at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, to...

A controlled clinical trial in 1809? (The JECH Gallery).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In his 1814 Edinburgh MD thesis (see figure), Alexander Hamilton described an experiment that took place during the Peninsular War to assess the effects of bloodletting. Hamilton and two other army surgeons carried out the experiment, which...

New York besieged: 11 September and after. (Speaker's Corner).
January 1, 2002... Epidemiologists all over the world have been good enough to express their concerns and worries about how we, and other friends and colleagues in New York, fared in the terror provoked on 11 September. This annotation responds to the editors'...

Alder Hey: The taken for granted and professional practice. (Editorial).
January 1, 2002... Anyone looking for an explanation of the scandal at Alder Hey in general rather than specific or psychological terms could do worse than turn to history. Not just to the last few years that is, but to half a millennium of Western medical...

Policy response to opioid misuse in Dublin: Opioid misuse in Dublin. (Editorial).
January 1, 2002... Opioid misuse tests the extent to which we can ad here to a multisectoral approach to public health. It reflects the intersection between healthcare, criminal justice and cultural issues in a phenomenon that is harmful to the health of...

Globalisation and public health. (Glossary).
January 1, 2002... At the dawn of the 21 st century, globalisation is a word that has become a part of everyday communication in all corners of the world. It is a concept that for some holds the promise of a new and brighter future, while for others it represents...

Estimation of the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes from primary care and secondary care source data: comparison of record linkage with capture-recapture analysis. (Research Report).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Study objective: To compare multiple source linkage and capture-recapture analysis in determining the current age and gender specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in a UK white population. To assess whole population trends in...

Types of alcoholic beverages and blood lipids in a French population. (Research Report).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Study objective: Prospective studies have shown a consistent relation between alcohol consumption and decreasing incidence of coronary artery disease. The protective effect of alcohol could be mediated through increased levels of HDL...

Socioeconomic context in area of living and risk of myocardial infarction: Results from Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program (SHEEP). (Research Report).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Study objective: To analyse if socioeconomic characteristics in area of living affect the risk of myocardial infarction in a Swedish urban population, and to evaluate to what extent the contextual effect is confounded by the individual...

Indicators of deprivation, voting patterns, and health status at area level in the Republic of Ireland. (Research Report).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Study objective: To determine what relation, if any, exists between mortality patterns, indicators of deprivation, general lifestyle and social attitudes, as exemplified by general election voting pattern in the Republic of Ireland. A relation...

A population perspective to evidence based medicine: "evidence for population health". (Theory and Methods).
January 1, 2002... We explore the notion that the public health community could learn lessons from the success of evidence based medicine (EBM) and develop a public health counterpart called "Evidence for Population Health". While EBM focuses on individual...

Taking STOX: Developing a cross disciplinary methodology for systematic reviews of research on the built environment and the health of the public. (Theory and Methods).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Study objective: To develop a cross disciplinary literature search methodology for conducting systematic reviews of all types of research investigating aspects of the built environment and the health of the public. Design: The method was...

Which measure of adolescent psychiatric disorder--diagnosis, number of symptoms, or adaptive functioning--best predicts adverse young adult outcomes? (Theory and Methods).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Objective: To test the ability of psychiatric diagnosis, symptom count, and adaptive functioning in adolescence to predict failure to complete secondary school and criminal involvement in young adulthood. Design: Community-based cohort...

Is the hair nicotine level a more accurate biomarker of environmental tobacco smoke exposure than urine cotinine? (Theory and Methods).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Study objective: The aim of this study was to compare the two biomarkers of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS); urine cotinine and hair nicotine, using questionnaires as the standard. Design: A cross sectional study of children...

The death of an artist: Adrian Henri, 1932-2000. (Obituary).
January 1, 2002... The death has occurred in Liverpool of the artist, poet and public health practitioner manque, Adrian Henri. This is a reflection on a collaboration that crossed C P Snow's two cultures, (1) which lasted almost 20 years and paid rich dividends...

Limitations of adjustment for reporting tendency in observational studies of stress and self reported coronary heart disease. (Short Report).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Recently, observational evidence has been suggested to show a causal association between various "psychosocial" exposures, including psychological stress, and heart disease.(1,2) Much of this evidence derives from studies in which a self...

Tobacco smoking and bladder cancer in coffee non-drinkers. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Data from a large Italian case-control study confirm that the tobacco related relative risk of bladder cancer is higher in coffee non-drinkers than in coffee drinkers. However, given the correlation between tobacco and coffee, the population...

Newcastle Heart Project. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... In our recently published analysis of Newcastle Heart Project data we concluded that in South Asians diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance was associated with an increased likelihood of reporting sibling but not parental diabetes. (1) By...

Disease, knowledge and society. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... D E Gannik, I. Laaunse editors. (Pp 264; DKK 220.00.) Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, 2000. ISBN 87-593-0814-1. The purpose of this book is to provide critical analyses of disease, treatment and care as socially structured practices. The...

Perspectives on health inequity. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... E Harris, P Sainsbury, D Nutbeam, editors. (Pp 159; A$20.) Australian Centre for Health Promotion, 1999. ISBN 1-86487-313-2. The book presents the views of experts of different backgrounds on causes and solutions of health inequity. These...