International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice

Shah Ebrahim

Uses of epidemiology, ways of living and dying
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1159-1160; doi:10.1093/ije/dym241 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

Amélie Quesnel–Vallée

Self-rated health: caught in the crossfire of the quest for ‘true’ health?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1161-1164; doi:10.1093/ije/dym236 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections

J N Morris

Uses of epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1165-1172; doi:10.1093/ije/dym227 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy Krieger

Commentary: Ways of asking and ways of living: reflections on the 50th anniversary of Morris’ ever-useful Uses of Epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1173-1180; doi:10.1093/ije/dym228 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dorothy Porter

Calculating health and social change: an essay on Jerry Morris and Late-modernist epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1180-1184; doi:10.1093/ije/dym229 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ann Oakley

Fifty years of JN Morris's Uses of Epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1184-1185; doi:10.1093/ije/dym230 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young, EFS Kaner, F Beyer, HO Dickinson, E Pienaar, F Campbell, C Schlesinger, N Heather, J Saunders, B Burnand, Charles Parry, and Martie Muller

Cochrane Column
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1186-1189; doi:10.1093/ije/dym224 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles

Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Richard Peto, Vendhan Chiruvai Kanimozhi, Gary Whitlock, and Dasarathi Veeramani

Cohort Profile: The Chennai prospective study of mortality among 500 000 adults in Tamil Nadu, South India
IJE Advance Access published on May 17, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1190-1195; doi:10.1093/ije/dym091 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LH Lumey, Aryeh D Stein, Henry S Kahn, Karin M van der Pal-de Bruin, GJ Blauw, Patricia A Zybert, and Ezra S Susser

Cohort Profile: The Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study
IJE Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1196-1204; doi:10.1093/ije/dym126 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diversion

Margaret A Handley and James Grieshop

Globalized migration and transnational epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on April 17, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1205-1206; doi:10.1093/ije/dym027 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Self-rated Health

Get checked abstract Martijn Huisman, Frank van Lenthe, and Johan Mackenbach

The predictive ability of self-assessed health for mortality in different educational groups
IJE Advance Access published on May 17, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1207-1213; doi:10.1093/ije/dym095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jennifer Beam Dowd and Anna Zajacova

Does the predictive power of self-rated health for subsequent mortality risk vary by socioeconomic status in the US?
IJE Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1214-1221; doi:10.1093/ije/dym214 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Archana Singh-Manoux, Aline Dugravot, Martin J Shipley, Jane E Ferrie, Pekka Martikainen, Marcel Goldberg, and Marie Zins

The association between self-rated health and mortality in different socioeconomic groups in the GAZEL cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on November 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1222-1228; doi:10.1093/ije/dym170 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mental Health

Get checked abstract Andrew T A Cheng, Keith Hawton, Charles T C Lee, and Tony H H Chen

The influence of media reporting of the suicide of a celebrity on suicide rates: a population-based study
IJE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1229-1234; doi:10.1093/ije/dym196 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract D Gunnell, R Fernando, M Hewagama, W D D Priyangika, F Konradsen, and M Eddleston

The impact of pesticide regulations on suicide in Sri Lanka
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1235-1242; doi:10.1093/ije/dym164 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vikram Patel

Commentary: Preventing suicide: need for a life course approach
IJE Advance Access published on October 2, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1242-1243; doi:10.1093/ije/dym197 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dimitris Ballas and Danny Dorling

Measuring the impact of major life events upon happiness
IJE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1244-1252; doi:10.1093/ije/dym182 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew J Oswald

Commentary: Human well-being and causality in social epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1253-1254; doi:10.1093/ije/dym190 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Seppo Koskinen, Kaisla Joutsenniemi, Tuija Martelin, and Pekka Martikainen

Mortality differences according to living arrangements
IJE Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1255-1264; doi:10.1093/ije/dym212 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Genc Burazeri, Artan Goda, Nertila Tavanxhi, Gerhard Sulo, Jonida Stefa, and Jeremy D Kark

The health effects of emigration on those who remain at home
IJE Advance Access published on September 3, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1265-1272; doi:10.1093/ije/dym162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Bobak and Arjan Gjonca

Commentary: Migration and health—what about those who stay at home?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1272-1273; doi:10.1093/ije/dym237 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Razum

Commentary: Kisses or money for Penelope?
IJE Advance Access published on November 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1273-1274; doi:10.1093/ije/dym223 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methodology

Get checked abstract Ken P Kleinman, Emily Oken, Jenny S Radesky, Janet W Rich-Edwards, Karen E Peterson, and Matthew W Gillman

How should gestational weight gain be assessed? A comparison of existing methods and a novel method, area under the weight gain curve
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1275-1282; doi:10.1093/ije/dym156 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diane Farrar and Lelia Duley

Commentary: But why should women be weighed routinely during pregnancy?
IJE Advance Access published on October 10, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1283-1284; doi:10.1093/ije/dym210 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kath Moser, Chris Frost, and David A Leon

Comparing health inequalities across time and place—rate ratios and rate differences lead to different conclusions: analysis of cross-sectional data from 22 countries 1991–2001
IJE Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1285-1291; doi:10.1093/ije/dym176 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Vincent Lorant, Stefaan Demarest, Pieter-Jan Miermans, and Herman Van Oyen

Survey error in measuring socio-economic risk factors of health status: a comparison of a survey and a census
IJE Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1292-1299; doi:10.1093/ije/dym191 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Uses of Epidemiology: Healthy Living

Get checked abstract JN Morris, Paul Wilkinson, Alan D Dangour, Christopher Deeming, and Astrid Fletcher

Defining a minimum income for healthy living (MIHL): older age, England
IJE Advance Access published on July 12, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1300-1307; doi:10.1093/ije/dym129 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Gorman

Commentary: Defining a minimum income for healthy living (MIHL): older age, England—a comment on implications for application in the developing world
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1307-1308; doi:10.1093/ije/dym172 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Infectious Diseases

Get checked abstract Margaret May, Jonathan A C Sterne, Martin Shipley, Eric Brunner, Ralph d’Agostino, Peter Whincup, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Andrew Carr, Bruno Ledergerber, Jens D Lundgren, Andrew N Phillips, Joseph Massaro, and Matthias Egger

A coronary heart disease risk model for predicting the effect of potent antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected men
IJE Advance Access published on July 25, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1309-1318; doi:10.1093/ije/dym135 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes, Eliseu Alves Waldman, Carme Borrell, and Terezinha Maria Paiva

Effectiveness of influenza vaccination and its impact on health inequalities
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1319-1326; doi:10.1093/ije/dym208 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alexander C Ford, David Forman, Alastair G Bailey, Karen J Goodman, Anthony T R Axon, and Paul Moayyedi

Effect of sibling number in the household and birth order on prevalence of Helicobacter pylori: a cross-sectional study
IJE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1327-1333; doi:10.1093/ije/dym201 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract H Campbell, N Andrews, K E Brown, and E Miller

Review of the effect of measles vaccination on the epidemiology of SSPE
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1334-1348; doi:10.1093/ije/dym207 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract G David Batty, George Davey Smith, Caroline H D Fall, Avan Aihie Sayer, Elaine Dennison, Cyrus Cooper, and Catharine R Gale

Association of diarrhoea in childhood with blood pressure and coronary heart disease in older age: analyses of two UK cohort studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1349-1355; doi:10.1093/ije/dym178 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Genetic Epidemiology

Get checked abstract Michelle Baker, Thahira Rahman, Darroch Hall, Peter J Avery, Bongani M Mayosi, John M C Connell, Martin Farrall, Hugh Watkins, and Bernard Keavney

The C-532T polymorphism of the angiotensinogen gene is associated with pulse pressure: A possible explanation for heterogeneity in genetic association studies of AGT and hypertension
IJE Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1356-1362; doi:10.1093/ije/dym213 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract M P M Boks, M Schipper, C D Schubart, I E Sommer, R S Kahn, and R A Ophoff

Investigating gene–environment interaction in complex diseases: increasing power by selective sampling for environmental exposure
IJE Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1363-1369; doi:10.1093/ije/dym215 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miscellaneous

Books Received
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1370; doi:10.1093/ije/dym245 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1371; doi:10.1093/ije/dym246 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviewers
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2007 36: 1372-1374; doi:10.1093/ije/dym248 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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