International Journal of Epidemiology

Editorials:

David A Leon

Alcohol—The changing face of a perennial problem
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 653-654; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.653 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

AJ McMichael

Climate change and health: information to counter the White House Effect
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 655-657; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.655 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jonathan M Samet and Thomas A Burke

The Bush administration, the environment and public health—warnings from the first 100 days
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 658-660; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.658 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Review Articles:

Ian NM Day, Dongfeng Gu, Rosalind H Ganderton, Emmanuel Spanakis, and Shu Ye

Epidemiology and the genetic basis of disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 661-667; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.661 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nancy Krieger

Theories for social epidemiology in the 21st century: an ecosocial perspective
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 668-677; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.668 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reiterations:

WO Kermack, AG McKendrick, and PL McKinlay

Death-rates in Great Britain and Sweden. Some general regularities and their significance
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 678-683; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.678 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M Susser

Commentary: The longitudinal perspective and cohort analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 684-687; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.684 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bernard Harris

Commentary: ‘The child is father of the man.’ The relationship between child health and adult mortality in the 19th and 20th centuries
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 688-696; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.688 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

George Davey Smith and Diana Kuh

Commentary: William Ogilvy Kermack and the childhood origins of adult health and disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 696-703; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.696 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Point-Counterpoint:

Edited by Lucien R. Karhausen

Causation in Epidemiology: a Socratic dialogue: Plato
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 704-706; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.704 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Charles Poole

Commentary: Positivized epidemiology and the model of sufficient and component causes
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 707-709; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.707 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lucien R Karhausen

Commentary: Coda—a Socratic dialogue: Plato
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 710-711; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.710 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Forum:

Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Structural adjustments and their impact on health and society: a perspective from Pakistan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 712-716; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.712 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Chitr Sitthi-amorn, Ratana Somrongthong, and Wattana S Janjaroen

Economic and health care restructuring— the need for better governance
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 717-719; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.717 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Davidson R Gwatkin

The need for equity-oriented health sector reforms
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 720-723; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.720 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special theme: Alcohol: Reiteration:

Michael G Marmot

Alcohol and coronary heart disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 724-729; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.724 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael G Marmot

Commentary: Reflections on alcohol and coronary heart disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 729-734; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.729 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Pascal Bovet and Fred Paccaud

Commentary: Alcohol, coronary heart disease and public health: which evidence-based policy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 734-737; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.734 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

E Rimm

Commentary: Alcohol and coronary heart disease—laying the foundation for future work
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 738-739; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.738 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

AL Klatsky

Commentary: Could abstinence from alcohol be hazardous to your health?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 739-742; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.739 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Original Article:

Laurent Chenet, Annie Britton, Ramune Kalediene, and Jadvyga Petrauskiene

Daily variations in deaths in Lithuania: the possible contribution of binge drinking
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 743-748; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.743 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Howard D Sesso, Ralph S Paffenbarger, Jr, and I-Min Lee

Alcohol consumption and risk of prostate cancer: The Harvard Alumni Health Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 749-755; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.749 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P Colin Cryer, Jean Saunders, Linda M Jenkins, Helen Neale, Adam C Cook, and Timothy J Peters

Clusters within a general adult population of alcohol abstainers
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 756-765; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.756 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Duk-Hee Lee, Myung-Hwa Ha, and David C Christiani

Body weight, alcohol consumption and liver enzyme activity—a 4-year follow-up study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 766-770; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.766 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Carl V Phillips

The economics of ‘more research is needed’
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 771-776; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.771 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Smoking:

SG Wannamethee, AG Shaper, and M Walker

Weight change, body weight and mortality: the impact of smoking and ill health
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 777-786; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.777 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, George Davey Smith, Carole L Hart, and David J Hole

Are women more sensitive to smoking than men? Findings from the Renfrew and Paisley study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 787-792; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.787 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eva Prescott

Commentary: Tobacco-related diseases: a gender differential?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 793-794; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.793 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion:

Fleur Adcock

Smokers for Celibacy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 795; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.795 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Maternal and Child Health:

Affette McCaw-Binns, Aileen Standard-Goldson, Deanna Ashley, Godfrey Walker, and Ian MacGillivray

Access to care and maternal mortality in Jamaican hospitals: 1993–1995
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 796-801; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.796 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Joanne Katz, Keith P West, Jr, Subarna K Khatry, Steven C LeClerq, Parul Christian, Elizabeth Kimbrough Pradhan, and Sharada Ram Shrestha

Twinning rates and survival of twins in rural Nepal
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 802-807; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.802 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sjurdur F Olsen

Commentary: Does use of food supplements influence the twin rate? New evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 807-808; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.807 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cancer:

Yang Mao, Jinfu Hu, Anne-Marie Ugnat, Robert Semenciw, and Shirley Fincham

Socioeconomic status and lung cancer risk in Canada
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 809-817; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.809 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kangmin Zhu, Robert S Levine, Edward A Brann, Yuan Gu, Lee S Caplan, Irene Hall, and Marianna K Baum

Risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma according to family history of haematolymphoproliferative malignancies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 818-824; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.818 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tor Haldorsen, Jon B Reitan, and Ulf Tveten

Cancer incidence among Norwegian airline cabin attendants
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 825-830; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.825 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Elsebeth Lynge

Commentary: Cancer in the air
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 830-832; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.830 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Socioeconomic differentials:

Pekka Martikainen, Masao Ishizaki, Michael G Marmot, Hideaki Nakagawa, and Sadanobu Kagamimori

Socioeconomic differences in behavioural and biological risk factors: a comparison of a Japanese and an English cohort of employed men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 833-838; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.833 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mental Health:

Mary M Haines, Stephen A Stansfeld, RF Soames Job, Birgitta Berglund, and Jenny Head

A follow-up study of effects of chronic aircraft noise exposure on child stress responses and cognition
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 839-845; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.839 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cardiovascular Disease:

FGR Fowkes, AJ Lee, CJ Evans, PL Allan, AW Bradbury, and CV Ruckley

Lifestyle risk factors for lower limb venous reflux in the general population: Edinburgh Vein Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 846-852; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.846 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ingrid Mogren, Ulf Högberg, Birgitta Stegmayr, Bernt Lindahl, and Hans Stenlund

Fetal exposure, heredity and risk indicators for cardiovascular disease in a Swedish welfare cohort
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 853-862; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.853 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Yoav Ben-Shlomo

Commentary: Are birthweight and cardiovascular associations due to fetal programming?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 862-863; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.862 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Disease:

Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Geneviève Chêne, Elena Losina, Sue J Goldie, Laurence Dequae Merchadou, Serge Alfandari, George R Seage, III, Lisa Sullivan, Catherine Marimoutou, A David Paltiel, Roger Salamon, Yves Mouton, and Kenneth A Freedberg

Incidence of primary opportunistic infections in two human immunodeficiency virus-infected French clinical cohorts
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 864-871; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.864 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

C Laurent, D Henzel, C Mulanga-Kabeya, G Maertens, B Larouzé, and E Delaporte

Seroepidemiological survey of hepatitis C virus among commercial sex workers and pregnant women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 872-877; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.872 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Laura Gibney, Nazmus Saquib, Jesse Metzger, Parwez Choudhury, MA Siddiqui, and MS Hassan

Human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B, C and D in Bangladesh's trucking industry: prevalence and risk factors
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 878-884; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.878 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Hawkes

Commentary: Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis in Bangladesh: widespread or targeted prevention strategies?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 885-886; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.885 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MFF Lima e Costa, SM Barreto, HL Guerra, JOA Firmo, E Uchoa, and PG Vidigal

Ageing with Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a community where the transmission has been interrupted: the Bambuí Health and Ageing Study (BHAS)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 887-893; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.887 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Juan Carlos Villar

Commentary: Control of Chagas' disease: let's put people before vectors
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 894-895; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.894 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Brief Report:

Sudarat Sittisombut, Edgar J Love, and Chitr Sitthi-amorn

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed in patients with terminal illness in Chiang Mai University Hospital, Thailand
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 896-898; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.896 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters to the Editor:

Nancy Krieger

Historical roots of social epidemiology: socioeconomic gradients in health and contextual analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 899-900; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.899 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andreas Stuck and John C Beck

Preventing disability and death in old age
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 900-901; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.900 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Xiangming Liu, Xiaodong Han, and Zongle Yang

A compound catalytic model
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 901-903; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.901 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review:

Debbie Lawlor

The Technology of Orgasm: ‘Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction.: Rachel P Maines. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, pp.181, £14.00. ISBN: 0801859417
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 904; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.904 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Anna B Gilmore

Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800–2000.: Matthew Hilton. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000, £49.50 (hb), £15.99 (pb). ISBN: 0-7190-5256-4 (hb), ISBN: 0-7190-5257-2 (pb).
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 905; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.905 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Hij Wildschut

Antenatal and neonatal screening.: N Wald and I Leck. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.573, £75.00. ISBN: 019-262826-7
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 905; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.905-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

IB Pless

Injury Control—a Guide to Research and Program Evaluation.: FP Rivara, P Cummings, TD Koepsell, DC Grossman, RV Maier (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.304, £60.00. ISBN: 0-521-66152-8.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 906; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.906 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

John Lynch

Inequalities in Life and Death. What if Britain were more equal? : R Mitchell, D Dorling, MShaw. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2000, pp.60. ISBN: 1-86134-234-9.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 907; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.907 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Neil Pearce

Development as freedom. : A Sen. New York: Knopf, 1999, pp.366, US$15.00. ISBN: 0-19-829-758.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 907-908; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.907-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tim J Peters

An Introduction to Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials.: JNS Matthews. London: Arnold, 2000, pp.189, £19.99. ISBN: 0-340-76143-1.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 908-909; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.908 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kate Tilling

Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data. : P Hougaard. Heidelberg: Springer, 2000, pp.542, £61.50. ISBN: 0-387-98873-4.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 909-910; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.909 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David R Jones

Bayes and Empirical Bayes methods for date analysis.: BP Carlin, TA Louis, 2nd edn. Boco Raton: Chapman and Hall/ CRC Press, 2000, pp.418, £34.99. ISBN: 1-584-88170-4.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 910; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.910 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andy Ness

Body Composition Assessment in Children and Adolescents. : T Jürimäe, AP Hills. Basel: Karger, 2000, pp.182. ISBN: 3-8055-7131-3.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 910-911; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.910-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard Martin

Pharmacoepidemiology. : Brian L Strom, 3rd ed. Chichester: John Wiley, 2000, pp.858, £120. ISBN: 0471-899259.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 911-912; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.911 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard Coker

Ending neglect: the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States.: Geiter (ed.) Committee on the Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States, Division of Health Promotion disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine. Washington: National Academy Press, 2000, £28.95. ISBN: 0-309-07028-7.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 912; doi:10.1093/ije/30.4.912 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

Bulletin Board
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News:

News
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Spotlight:

Spotlight
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Erratum:

Erratum
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