Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health articles from July 2001

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health archives from July 2001

Nuclear waste as a public health challenge.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... In the past decade, nuclear power has gone from being the world's fastest growing energy source to be the slowest. However, there are still more than 400 nuclear reactors working around the world (25% of them in the USA), and some countries...

What can doctors do to reduce health inequalities?(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... 1 Accept that inequalities in health do exist, and are an important health problem both in the developed and developing world. 2 Accept that any force affecting health irrespective of its biological or social origin is in the professional...

Addressing health inequalities in health impact assessment.
July 1, 2001... The United Kingdom has unacceptable inequalities in health and life expectancy by socioeconomic status, ethnic group and gender.' Many of these differences have widened over the past two decades. This means, for example, that over 17 000 fewer...

The many causes of human despair, La Ramblas, Barcelona.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Whether it was homelessness, addiction, marital disharmony, physical ill health, bereavement, stressful work, or the loss of a football match that caused this man's despair, the observer cannot tell. What is certain though, is that he was...

Basic concepts in population health and health care.
July 1, 2001... These definitions are intended to be operational definitions; that is, they are designed to facilitate the development of specific measures to assess their attainment, on the assumption that it does no good to provide a definition if it does...

Formal education and back pain: a review.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To summarise the scientific evidence on the relation between educational status and measures of the frequency and the consequences of back pain and of the outcomes of interventions among back pain patients, and to...

The incidence of childhood leukaemia around the La Hague nuclear waste reprocessing plant (France): a survey for the years 1978-1998.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... ARKM Abstract Background--A previous study has suggested an increased incidence rate of leukaemia from 1978 to 1992 in people aged 0 to 24 years and living in the vicinity of the La Hague nuclear waste reprocessing plant without...

Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To examine socioeconomic differences in case fatality and prognosis of myocardial infarction (MI) events, and to estimate the contributions of incidence and case fatality to socioeconomic differences in coronary heart...

Trends in the hospital management of unstable angina.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To examine the hospital management of unstable angina (UAP) in 1996 and 1998, according to patient demographic variables and disease severity. Design--Medical record review. Setting--37 hospitals across...

Role of age and sex in short-term and long term mortality after a first Q wave myocardial infarction.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--The objective of this study was to analyse whether the risk of death within 28 days and three years after a first Q wave myocardial infarction was higher in hospitalised women than in men. Design--Follow up...

Change in male and female life expectancy by social class: decomposition by age and cause of death in Finland 1971-95.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To quantify the contribution of different causes of death and age groups for trends in life expectancy for two major social classes. Design and setting--Prospective study of mortality in Finland among all...

Results from a family and DNA based active identification programme for familial hypercholesterolaemia.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common inborn error of lipoprotein metabolism, which strongly predisposes for coronary artery disease and premature cardiac death. [1] In 1994, a family based active identification programme...

Individual employment histories and subsequent cause specific hospital admissions and mortality: a prospective study of a cohort of male and female workers with 21 years follow up.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... It is a widely held view that the labour market is demanding increased levels of flexibility, and that this is causing greater psychosocial stress among employees. [1] Such stress may affect health, either through neuroendocrine pathways, or...

Height and health: predicting longevity from bone length in archaeological remains.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Contemporary studies show that taller people live longer. [1 2] Short stature is particularly associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and respiratory mortality. [2] It is uncertain whether this association existed in earlier...

A heuristic approach to the formulas for population attributable fraction.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Background--As the definitional formula for population attributable fraction is not usually directly usable in applications, separate estimation formulas are required. However, most epidemiology textbooks limit their coverage to...

The co-occurrence of AIDS and homelessness: results from the integration of administrative databases for AIDS surveillance and public shelter utilisation in Philadelphia.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--Administrative databases from the City of Philadelphia that track public shelter utilisation (n=44 337) and AIDS case reporting (n=749) were merged to identify rates and risk factors for co-occurring homelessness...

Is it feasible to plan secondary care services for coronary heart disease rationally? A quantified modelling approach for a UK Health Authority.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Background--Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the major cause of mortality in the UK. This paper explores the difficulties facing health authorities in applying a rational and needs based approach to the planning of hospital based...

Risk communication and public health.(Review)
July 1, 2001... P Benett, K Calman. (Pp 272; price not stated). New York: Oxford Universty Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-263037-7 In this global and fragmented society, where citizens do not have direct experience of many questions that influence their health,...

The epidemiology of neurological disorders.(Review)
July 1, 2001... C N Martin, R A C Hughes, eds. (Pp 248; price not stated). London: BMJ Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7279-1149-X Neuroepidemiology is an aetiological heterogeneous application field of epidemiology, for instance, compared with cancer or vascular...

Anthropology in public health. Bridging differences in culture and society.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Robert A Hahn, ed. (Pp 384; price not stated). New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-19-512902-4 (cloth); 0-19-511955-X (paper). The stated objectives of this anthology are to provide examples, for both public health and kindred...