Int. J. Epidemiol. -- Table of Contents (30 [6])

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Contents: Volume 30, Number 6: December 2001   [Index by Author]      Other Issues:

       Editorials

       Review

       Reformulations

       Reprints and Reflections

       Diversions

       Symposium

       Perinatal epidemiology

       Theory and Methods

       Mental Health

       Socioeconomic factors

       Cancer

       Infectious diseases

       Other original papers

       Letter to the Editor

       Book Review

       Erratum

       Bulletin Board

       News

       Spotlight

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Editorials:

Debbie A Lawlor and Tracey Stone: Public health and data protection: an inevitable collision or potential for a meeting of minds?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1221-1225; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1221 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Review:

Simon Chapman: Advocacy in public health: roles and challenges
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1226-1232; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1226 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reformulations:

Allen J Wilcox: On the importance—and the unimportance— of birthweight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1233-1241; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1233 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard David: Commentary: Birthweights and Bell Curves
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1241-1243; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1241 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Irva Hertz-Picciotto: Commentary: When brilliant insights lead astray
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1243-1244; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1243 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Allen J Wilcox: Response: Where do we go from here?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1245; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1245 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

Messrs. Poisson, Dulong, Larrey, and Double: Statistical research on conditions caused by calculi by Doctor Civiale
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1246-1249; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1246 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

J Rosser Matthews: Commentary: The Paris Academy of Science report on Jean Civiale's statistical research and the 19th century background to evidence-based medicine
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1249-1250; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1249 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nick Black: Commentary: That was then, this is now
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1251; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1251 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

U Tröhler: Commentary: ‘Medical art’ versus ‘medical science’: J Civiale's statistical research on conditions caused by calculi at the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1835
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1252-1253; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1252 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jan P Vandenbroucke: Commentary: Treatment of bladder stones and probabilistic reasoning in medicine: an 1835 account and its lessons for the present
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1253-1258; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1253 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversions:

Brian Higgins: Poem: Welfare X = Y
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1259; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1259 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Symposium:

John P Bunker: The role of medical care in contributing to health improvements within societies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1260-1263; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1260 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Julian Tudor Hart: Commentary: Can health outputs of routine practice approach those of clinical trials?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1263-1267; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1263 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen Frankel: Commentary: Medical care and the wider influences upon population health: a false dichotomy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1267-1268; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1267 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Perinatal epidemiology:

Hiroki Ohmi, Kenzou Hirooka, Akira Hata, and Yoshikatsu Mochizuki: Recent trend of increase in proportion of low birthweight infants in Japan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1269-1271; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1269 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Philippe Grandjean, Kristian S Bjerve, Pál Weihe, and Ulrike Steuerwald: Birthweight in a fishing community: significance of essential fatty acids and marine food contaminants
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1272-1278; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1272 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S F Olsen: Commentary: Mercury, PCB, and now eicosapentaenoic acid: still another reason why pregnant women should be concerned about eating seafood?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1279-1280; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1279 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Roland EB Andersson and Mats Lambe: Incidence of appendicitis during pregnancy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1281-1285; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1281 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Valérie Delaunay, Jean-François Etard, Marie-Pierre Préziosi, Adama Marra, and François Simondon: Decline of infant and child mortality rates in rural Senegal over a 37-year period (1963–1999)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1286-1293; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1286 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ian M Timæus: Commentary: Mortality decline in Senegal
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1294-1295; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1294 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Olof Stephansson, Paul W Dickman, Anna LV Johansson, and Sven Cnattingius: The influence of socioeconomic status on stillbirth risk in Sweden
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1296-1301; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1296 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen: Commentary: Social inequalities in risk of stillbirth—the price of success?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1301-1302; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1301 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

RE Gilbert, L Gras, M Wallon, F Peyron, AE Ades, and DT Dunn: Effect of prenatal treatment on mother to child transmission of Toxoplasma gondii: retrospective cohort study of 554 mother-child pairs in Lyon, France
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1303-1308; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1303 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

L Gras, RE Gilbert, AE Ades, and DT Dunn: Effect of prenatal treatment on the risk of intracranial and ocular lesions in children with congenital toxoplasmosis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1309-1313; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1309 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Anne Eskild and Per Magnus: Commentary: Little evidence of effective prenatal treatment against congenital toxoplasmosis—the implications for testing in pregnancy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1314-1315; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1314 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P Thulliez: Commentary: Efficacy of prenatal treatment for toxoplasmosis: a possibility that cannot be ruled out
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1315-1316; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1315 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lill IS Trogstad, Anne Eskild, Per Magnus, Sven Ove Samuelsen, and Britt-Ingjerd Nesheim: Changing paternity and time since last pregnancy; the impact on pre-eclampsia risk. A study of 547 238 women with and without previous pre-eclampsia
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1317-1322; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1317 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Brenda Eskenazi and Kim Harley: Commentary: Revisiting the primipaternity theory of pre-eclampsia
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1323-1324; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1323 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cesar G Victora, Fernando C Barros, Bernardo L Horta, and Reynaldo Martorell: Short-term benefits of catch-up growth for small-for-gestational-age infants
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1325-1330; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1325 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Johan Eriksson: Commentary: Early ‘catch-up’ growth is good for later health
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1330-1331; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1330 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Elena N Naumova, Aviva Must, and Nan M Laird: Tutorial in Biostatistics: Evaluating the impact of ‘critical periods’ in longitudinal studies of growth using piecewise mixed effects models
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1332-1341; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1332 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rebecca Hardy: Commentary: Are piecewise mixed effects models useful in epidemiology?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1341-1342; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1341 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sander Greenland: Ecologic versus individual-level sources of bias in ecologic estimates of contextual health effects
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1343-1350; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1343 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kate Tilling, Jonathan AC Sterne, and Charles DA Wolfe: Estimation of the incidence of stroke using a capture-recapture model including covariates
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1351-1359; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1351 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David Barer: Commentary: Estimation of the incidence of stroke using a capture-recapture model including covariates
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1359-1360; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1359 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eugène Sobngwi, Jean Claude N Mbanya, Nigel C Unwin, Terrence J Aspray, and KGMM Alberti: Development and validation of a questionnaire for the assessment of physical activity in epidemiological studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1361-1368; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1361 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nicholas J Wareham: Commentary: Measuring physical activity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1369-1370; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1369 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Doungkamol Sindhusake, Paul Mitchell, Wayne Smith, Maryanne Golding, Philip Newall, David Hartley, and George Rubin: Validation of self-reported hearing loss. The Blue Mountains Hearing Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1371-1378; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1371 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen R Cole and Cande V Ananth: Regression models for unconstrained, partially or fully constrained continuation odds ratios
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1379-1382; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1379 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mental Health:

R Neale, C Brayne, and AL Johnson: Cognition and survival: an exploration in a large multicentre study of the population aged 65 years and over
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1383-1388; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1383 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Suzanne C Ho, Jean Woo, Aprille Sham, Sieu Gaen Chan, and Ashley LM Yu: A 3-year follow-up study of social, lifestyle and health predictors of cognitive impairment in a Chinese older cohort
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1389-1396; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1389 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Socioeconomic factors:

Pekka Martikainen, Pia Mäkelä, Seppo Koskinen, and Tapani Valkonen: Income differences in mortality: a register-based follow-up study of three million men and women
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1397-1405; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1397 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Geoff Der: Commentary: Income and health: why are curves so appealing?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1405-1406; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1405 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sijmen A Reijneveld and Karien Stronks: The validity of self-reported use of health care across socioeconomic strata: a comparison of survey and registration data
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1407-1414; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1407 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cancer:

Douglas A Corley and Patricia A Buffler: Oesophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinomas: analysis of regional variation using the Cancer Incidence in Five Continents database
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1415-1425; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1415 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

JA Eksteen, A Latchford, SJ Thomas, and JA Jankowski: Commentary: Regional variations in oesophageal and gastric cardia cancers—implications and practice
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1425-1427; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1425 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

John D Dockerty, Gerald Draper, Tim Vincent, Steve D Rowan, and Kathryn J Bunch: Case-control study of parental age, parity and socioeconomic level in relation to childhood cancers
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1428-1437; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1428 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MF Greaves: Commentary: Birth order and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1438-1439; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1438 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious diseases:

Abraham Hodgson, Thomas Smith, Sebastien Gagneux, Isaac Akumah, Martin Adjuik, Gerd Pluschke, Fred Binka, and Blaise Genton: Survival and sequelae of meningococcal meningitis in Ghana
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1440-1446; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1440 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nancy Rosenstein: Commentary: Opportunities to decrease mortality and long-term sequellae associated with meningococcal disease in Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1447-1448; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1447 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Amy E Weber, Kevin JP Craib, Keith Chan, Steve Martindale, Mary Lou Miller, Martin T Schechter, and Robert S Hogg: Sex trade involvement and rates of human immunodeficiency virus positivity among young gay and bisexual men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1449-1454; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1449 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alex Carballo-Diéguez and Ezra Susser: Commentary: Sex trade involvement and rates of HIV-positivity among young gay and bisexual men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1455-1456; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1455 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

SR Moore, AAM Lima, MR Conaway, JB Schorling, AM Soares, and RL Guerrant: Early childhood diarrhoea and helminthiases associate with long-term linear growth faltering
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1457-1464; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1457 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Other original papers:

Pascale GA Van Hoydonck, Elisabeth HM Temme, and Evert G Schouten: Serum bilirubin concentration in a Belgian population: the association with smoking status and type of cigarettes
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1465-1472; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1465 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andrea Sherriff, Tim J Peters, John Henderson, and David Strachan: Risk factor associations with wheezing patterns in children followed longitudinally from birth to 3 $1/2$ years
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1473-1484; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1473 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Carmen Garcia-Peña, Margaret Thorogood, Ben Armstrong, Sandra Reyes-Frausto, and Onofre Muñoz: Pragmatic randomized trial of home visits by a nurse to elderly people with hypertension in Mexico
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1485-1491; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1485 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andreas E Stuck: Commentary: Disentangling the black box of disability prevention in older people
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1491-1492; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1491 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letter to the Editor:

Pekka Puska: Coronary heart disease and stroke in developing countries: time to act
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1493-1494; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1493 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Franklin White: Developing effective and affordable models for non-communicable disease prevention and control
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1494-1495; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1494 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Robert Beaglehole: Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1495-1496; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1495 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Shah Ebrahim and George Davey Smith: Editors' Response—exporting failure
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1496-1497; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1496 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bobby Joseph: What's the good word—preventive or preventative?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1498; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1498 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Shah Ebrahim: Editor's response—preventive or preventative?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1498; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1498-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alice Stewart: Childhood Cancers and the Viral Hypothesis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1498-1499; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1498-b [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Robert S Hogg, Steffanie A Strathdee, Kevin JP Craib, Michael V O'shaughnessy, Julio Montaner, and Martin T Schechter: Gay life expectancy revisited
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1499; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1499 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review:

Mary Shaw: Gender inequalities in health: E Annandale and K Hunt (eds). Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 1999, pp.224. £15.99 (PB) ISBN: 0335-203647, £50.00 (HB) ISBN: 0335-203655.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1500; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1500 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rob B Briner: The Stress Myth: S Doublet. Chesterfield, MO: Science & Humanities Press, 2000, pp.287, US$24.95. ISBN: 1-888-725-36-2.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1500-1501; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1500-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alison Mackenzie: The New Public Health: an Australian Perspective: F Baum. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, £22.50, pp.570. ISBN: 019-5539907.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1502; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1502 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Neil Pearce: Human frontiers, environments and disease. Past patterns uncertain futures.: A McMichael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.413, £14.95 (PB). ISBN: 0521-00494-2; £40.00 (HB). ISBN: 0521-80311-X.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1502-1503; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1502-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M Thorogood: Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multi-Discipline?: R Edmondson, C Kelleher (eds). Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000, pp.269, £39.50 (HB), £16.50 (PB). ISBN: 0-7165-2657-3.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1503-1504; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1503 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

RA Feldman: Microbial Musings: DJ Bibel. Belmont, CA: Star Publishing Co, 2001, pp.398, US$38.95. ISBN: 0-89863-211-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1504; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1504 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jon Wakefield: Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology: AB Lawson. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2001, pp.277, £55.00 (HB). ISBN: 0471975729.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1504-1505; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1504-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Erratum:

: Correction notice: Book review of Betrayal of Trust by L Garrett
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1505; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1505 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

: Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1506-1507; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1506 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News:

: News
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Spotlight:

: Spotlight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1510-1513; doi:10.1093/ije/30.6.1510 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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