Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health articles from March 2001

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health archives from March 2001

Neocolonialism and epidemiology.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The International Conference on Health Research for Development celebrated last year in Bangkok provided the stimulus for a special issue of the BMJ related to global health and the governance of global health research was discussed. Several...

A note to Bill Gates.(global public health system technology)(Brief Article)(Column)
March 1, 2001... Dear Bill Just as Ted Turner with his one time gift of US$ 34 million to the US State Department has recently bailed out the US government with regard to its outstanding dues to the UN (supposedly negotiated in 10 minutes between him and...

Megapoles Project: working on behalf of socially disadvantaged groups.
March 1, 2001... Social disadvantage can lead not only to poverty but can reduce a person's ability to engage effectively in mainstream society.[1 2] For a number of years a variety of public health models have sought to tackle inequalities. These include the...

Nationalism, international public health assistance, and epidemiologic transitions.
March 1, 2001... The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) describes itself as "an independent federal agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States"...

Epidemiology is more than discourse: critical thoughts from Latin America.
March 1, 2001... The essay by Aviles [1] is a powerful and well stated piece of work. It will certainly become an important reference regarding the misuse of epidemiology in the context of international politics. There is wide evidence concerning the...

Epidemiology and (neo-)colonialism.
March 1, 2001... Reflecting on the complex and important issues raised in the paper by Luis Aviles in this issue of the journal, [1] I would like to discuss an example of how a recent shift in the epidemiological approaches used by researchers at an...

Public health and colonialism: a new or old problem?
March 1, 2001... Epidemiology is not alone as a discipline in facing awesome challenges. [1] It would also be wrong to ascribe to epidemiology any particular failures; many disciplines have shared difficult times as the world around them is restructured. What...

Epidemiology as discourse: the politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador.
March 1, 2001... "Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it." ...

Family violence, employment status, welfare benefits, and alcohol drinking in the United States: what is the relation?(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--This study examined the contribution of employment status, welfare benefits, alcohol use, and other individual, and contextual factors to physical aggression during marital conflict. Methods--Logistic regression...

Can a decline in the population means of cardiovascular risk factors reduce the number of people at risk?(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To prove the possibility of shifting distribution of cardiovascular risk factors for a whole population over time and thereby to influence the prevalence of the corresponding disease states, according to the theory...

Socioeconomic status and weight control practices in British adults.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective-Attitudes and practices concerning weight control in British adults were examined to test the hypothesis that variation in concern about weight and deliberate weight control might partly explain the socioeconomic...

Partitioned prostate cancer prevalence estimates: an informative measure of the disease burden.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Abstract Study objectives--Public health burden of disease is often measured using prevalence statistics. Prevalence of invasive prostate cancer in the United States is presented according to age at diagnosis, time from diagnosis,...

Level of aggregation for optimal epidemiological analysis: the case of time to surgery and unnecessary removal of the normal appendix.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--To illustrate the concept of "individualised fallacy", the result of improper interpretation and inference about aggregate level associations on the basis of associations at the individual level, in...

Quality assurance for screening mammography: an international comparison.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Abstract Study objective--In 1998, the International Breast Cancer Screening Network (IBSN) sponsored an assessment of quality assurance policies and practices to define their scope for population-based screening mammography programmes...

Impact of smoking status on weight loss and cardiovascular risk factors.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Smoking and obesity are prevalent health risks, each of which has important effects on morbidity and mortality. [1,2] People who both smoke and are obese are at particularly high risk for cardiovascular disease and need to tackle both of...

High birth weights in prewar Faroe Islands.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Birth weights in the Faroe Islands are among the highest in the world. [1] During the 1980s, infants born there had 200 grams higher mean birth weight than their Danish peers. [1] Half of this difference could be attributed to a longer...

CORRECTIONS.(Statistical Data Included)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2001... An authors' error occurred in the paper by Evans and others (2000;54:677-86). Because of a computing error, missing data were not excluded from some of the analyses in this paper, resulting in minor inaccuracies to table 4. This in no way...