International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

Shah Ebrahim

Social capital: everything or nothing?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 627; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh252 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial:

Umesh D Parashar and Larry J Anderson

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: review and lessons of the 2003 outbreak
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 628-634; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh198 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections:

Preservation of health
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 635-640; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh206 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alun Evans

Practical directions to the preservation of health
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 640-649; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh205 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Social Capital Debate:

Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock

Health by association? Social capital, social theory, and the political economy of public health
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 650-667; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh013 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert D Putnam

Commentary: ‘Health by association’: some comments
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 667-671; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh204 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vicente Navarro

Commentary: Is capital the solution or the problem?
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 672-674; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh179 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carles Muntaner

Commentary: Social capital, social class, and the slow progress of psychosocial epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 674-680; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh200 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Ellaway

Commentary: Can subtle refinements of popular concepts be put into practice?
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 681-682; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh184 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ichiro Kawachi, Daniel Kim, Adam Coutts, and SV Subramanian

Commentary: Reconciling the three accounts of social capital
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 682-690; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh177 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Davey Smith and John Lynch

Commentary: Social capital, social epidemiology and disease aetiology
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 691-700; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh261 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock

Rejoinder: Crafting rigorous and relevant social theory for public health policy
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 700-704; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh263 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Szreter

Author response: Debating mortality trends in 19th century Britain
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 705-709; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh143 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Emmanuela Gakidou, Margaret Hogan, and Alan D Lopez

Adult mortality: time for a reappraisal
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 710-717; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh099 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PN Mari Bhat

Commentary: On reappraisal of adult mortality
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 717-718; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh235 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Photoessay:

John Darwell

Working lives
IJE Advance Access published on June 3, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 719-721; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh140 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diversion:

Nick Drake

Heaven (for Mark Willson White, 1957–1994)
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 722; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh170 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Cardiovascular Disease:

Enrique Regidor, José R Banegas, Juan L Gutiérrez-Fisac, Vicente Domínguez, and Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Socioeconomic position in childhood and cardiovascular risk factors in older Spanish people
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 723-730; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh105 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Blane

Commentary: Urbanization and the life course
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 730-731; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh126 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria K Stjärne, Antonio Ponce de Leon, Johan Hallqvist, and the SHEEP Study Group

Contextual effects of social fragmentation and material deprivation on risk of myocardial infarction—results from the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program (SHEEP)
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 732-741; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh087 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Congdon

Commentary: Contextual effects: index construction and technique
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 741-742; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh173 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos Iribarren, Irina V Tolstykh, and Mark D Eisner

Are patients with asthma at increased risk of coronary heart disease?
IJE Advance Access published on May 6, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 743-748; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh081 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Hubbard and Joe West

Commentary: Does the presence of asthma increase the incidence of coronary heart disease?
IJE Advance Access published on May 6, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 749-750; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh166 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

Body mass index and cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: an overview of 33 cohorts involving 310 000 participants
IJE Advance Access published on April 22, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 751-758; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tanuja Rastogi, Mario Vaz, Donna Spiegelman, K Srinath Reddy, AV Bharathi, Meir J Stampfer, Walter C Willett, and Alberto Ascherio

Physical activity and risk of coronary heart disease in India
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 759-767; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh042 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S Goya Wannamethee

Commentary: Prevention of coronary heart disease in South Asia—containing the physical inactivity epidemic
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 767-768; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh104 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eugène Sobngwi, Jean-Claude Mbanya, Nigel C Unwin, Raphael Porcher, André-Pascal Kengne, Léopold Fezeu, Etienne Magloire Minkoulou, Caroline Tournoux, Jean-Francois Gautier, Terence J Aspray, and Kgmm Alberti

Exposure over the life course to an urban environment and its relation with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in rural and urban Cameroon
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 769-776; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh044 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sanjay Kinra

Commentary: Beyond urban–rural comparisons: towards a life course approach to understanding health effects of urbanization
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 777-778; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh161 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C Allonier, A Chevalier, M Zins, O Catelinois, SM Consoli, M Goldberg, and G Lahon

Anxiety or depressive disorders and risk of ischaemic heart disease among French power company employees
IJE Advance Access published on May 6, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 779-786; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh077 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

GCW Wendel-Vos, AJ Schuit, EJM Feskens, HC Boshuizen, WMM Verschuren, WHM Saris, and D Kromhout

Physical activity and stroke. A meta-analysis of observational data
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 787-798; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh168 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cancer:

Gwenn Menvielle, Danièle Luce, Paquerette Goldberg, and Annette Leclerc

Smoking, alcohol drinking, occupational exposures and social inequalities in hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 799-806; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh090 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W Ahrens

Commentary: Socioeconomic status: more than a confounder?
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 806-807; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh203 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ying Liu, Satoshi Kaneko, and Tomotaka Sobue

Trends in reported incidences of gastric cancer by tumour location, from 1975 to 1989 in Japan
IJE Advance Access published on March 11, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 808-815; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh053 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fetal Growth:

Henrik Toft Sørensen, Rodrigo Labouriau, Elise Snitker Jensen, Preben Bo Mortensen, and Henrik Carl Schønheyder

Fetal growth, maternal prenatal smoking, and risk of invasive meningococcal disease: a nationwide case-control study
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 816-820; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh169 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonio AM Silva, Marco A Barbieri, Heloisa Bettiol, Marcelo Z Goldani, and Roberto J Rona

Can we explain why Brazilian babies are becoming lighter?
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 821-828; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh101 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Siri Vangen

Commentary: Unravelling the mystery of variation in birthweight
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 829-830; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh218 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aryeh D Stein, Patricia A Zybert, Margot van de Bor, and LH Lumey

Intrauterine famine exposure and body proportions at birth: the Dutch Hunger Winter
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 831-836; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh083 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael S Kramer

Commentary: Maternal nutrition, body proportions at birth, and adult chronic disease
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 837-838; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh165 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PS Blair, RF Drewett, PM Emmett, A Ness, AM Emond, and the ALSPAC Study Team

Family, socioeconomic and prenatal factors associated with failure to thrive in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 839-847; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh100 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter B Sullivan

Commentary: The epidemiology of failure-to-thrive in infants
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 847-848; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh199 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Petter Kristensen, Tor Bjerkedal, and Lorentz M Irgens

Birthweight and work participation in adulthood
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 849-856; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh111 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yin Bun Cheung

Commentary: Fetal origins of social situations? Medicalization of social life?
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 856-857; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh160 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other Original Papers:

Olga Basso, Allen J Wilcox, Clarice R Weinberg, Donna D Baird, and Jørn Olsen

Height and risk of severe pre-eclampsia. A study within the Danish National Birth Cohort
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 858-863; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roberto Gnavi, Alessio Petrelli, Moreno Demaria, Teresa Spadea, Quirico Carta, and Giuseppe Costa

Mortality and educational level among diabetic and non-diabetic population in the Turin Longitudinal Study: a 9-year follow-up
IJE Advance Access published on May 6, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 864-871; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh089 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

N Chaturvedi

Commentary: Socioeconomic status and diabetes outcomes; what might we expect and why don't we find it?
IJE Advance Access published on May 6, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 871-873; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh187 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tony Blakely, Ichiro Kawachi, June Atkinson, and Jackie Fawcett

Income and mortality: the shape of the association and confounding New Zealand Census-Mortality Study, 1981–1999
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 874-883; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh156 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tarani Chandola, Pekka Martikainen, Mel Bartley, Eero Lahelma, Michael Marmot, Sekine Michikazu, Ali Nasermoaddeli, and Sadanobu Kagamimori

Does conflict between home and work explain the effect of multiple roles on mental health? A comparative study of Finland, Japan, and the UK
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 884-893; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael N Bates, Jackie Fawcett, Nick Garrett, Terry Cutress, and Tord Kjellstrom

Health effects of dental amalgam exposure: a retrospective cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 894-902; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh164 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

J-L Bulliard and F Levi

Women's perception of mammography screening
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 903-904; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh227 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcel Zwahlen, Barbara D'Avanzo, Matthias Egger, Franco Berrino, Thomas Perneger, Paola Mosconi, and Gianfranco Domenighetti

Authors' response
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 904-905; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh228 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martien W Borgdorff, Judith R Glynn, and Emilia Vynnycky

Using capture–recapture methods to study recent transmission of tuberculosis
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 905-906; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh109 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jesús Iñigo, Araceli Arce, and Fernando Chaves

Authors' response
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 907; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh110 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark F McCarty

Insulin and IGF-I as determinants of low ‘Western’ cancer rates in the rural third world
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 908-910; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh265 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miscellaneous:

Book Reviews:

Robert Aronowitz

The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories. Codell Carter K. Aldershot UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2003, pp. 248, (HB) £55.00 ISBN: 0-7546-0678-3.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 911-912; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh207 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nic Timpson

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. Pevsner J. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2003, pp. 753, £58.50 ISBN: 0-471-21004-8.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 913-914; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh208 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andy Ness

Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases. WHO Technical Report Series 916. Report of a Joint WHO/FSA Expert Consultation.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 914-915; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh209 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alan Emond

Child Health and the Environment. Donald T Wigle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 396, (HB) £37.50 ISBN: 0-19-513559-8.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 915; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh210 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adrian Sleigh

A Short Introduction to Epidemiology. Neil Pearce. Published as an Occasional Report Series No 2, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2003, pp. 130 ISBN: 0-473-09560-2.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 915-916; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh219 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eduard Bos

Population and Health in Developing Countries. Volume 1, Population, Health, and Survival at INDEPTH Sites. INDEPTH Network. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2002, pp. 356, (PB) $40.40 ISBN: 0-88936-948-8.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 916-917; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh220 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Harvey

Evidence Based Public Health. Ross C Brownson, Elizabeth A Baker, Terry L Leet, Kathleen N Gillespie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 252, £29.50 (HB) ISBN: 0-19-514376-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 917-918; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh153 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick Spencer

Child Public Health. Blair M, Stewart-Brown S, Waterston T, Crowther R. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 262, £29.50 (PB), ISBN: 0-19-263192-6.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 918-919; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh154 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tracy Dixon

Medical Statistics from A to Z. A guide for clinicians and Medical Students. BS Everitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 236, £19.95 (PB) ISBN: 0-521-53204-3, £55 (HB) ISBN: 0-521-82506-7.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 919; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh106 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Corrigendum:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 920; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh144 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bulletin Board:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 921; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh329 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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