Ausgabe 1/2005
Inhalt (142 Artikel)
Etiology and prognosis of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain; design of a longitudinal study
Janneke M Bastiaanssen, Rob A de Bie, Caroline HG Bastiaenen, Annie Heuts, Mariëlle EAL Kroese, Gerard GM Essed, Piet A van den Brandt
Patients' request for and emergency physicians' prescription of antimicrobial prophylaxis for anthrax during the 2001 bioterrorism-related outbreak
Nkuchia M M'ikanatha, Kathleen G Julian, Allen R Kunselman, Robert C Aber, James T Rankin, Ebbing Lautenbach
Strategies to prevent HIV transmission among heterosexual African-American men
Ekere J Essien, Angela F Meshack, Ronald J Peters, Gbadebo O Ogungbade, Nora I Osemene
Psychological distress among Bam earthquake survivors in Iran: a population-based study
Ali Montazeri, Hamid Baradaran, Sepideh Omidvari, Seyed Ali Azin, Mehdi Ebadi, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Amir Mahmood Harirchi, Mohammad Shariati
Tetanus immunity in nursing home residents of Bolu, Turkey
Oguz Karabay, Fatma Ozkardes, Ali Tamer, Kazım Karaarslan
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a multidisciplinary intervention programme to prevent new falls and functional decline among elderly persons at risk: design of a replicated randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN64716113]
Marike RC Hendriks, Jolanda CM van Haastregt, Joseph PM Diederiks, Silvia MAA Evers, Harry FJM Crebolder, Jacques ThM van Eijk
Evaluating the evidence for models of life course socioeconomic factors and cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review
Ricardo A Pollitt, Kathryn M Rose, Jay S Kaufman
Towards an understanding of barriers to condom use in rural Benin using the Health Belief Model: A cross sectional survey
Sennen H Hounton, Hélène Carabin, Neil J Henderson
Tissue classification for the epidemiological assessment of surgical transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A proposal on hypothetical risk levels
Alberto Rábano, Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta, Kåre Mølbak, Åke Siden, Miguel Calero, Henning Laursen
The importance of socio-economic context for social marketing models for improving reproductive health: Evidence from 555 years of program experience
Dominique Meekers, Stephen Rahaim
Injury morbidity in an urban and a rural area in Tanzania: an epidemiological survey
Candida Moshiro, Ivar Heuch, Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm, Philip Setel, Yusuf Hemed, Gunnar Kvåle
Comparing the clinical effectiveness of different new-born hearing screening strategies. A decision analysis
Eva Grill, Franz Hessel, Uwe Siebert, Petra Schnell-Inderst, Silke Kunze, Andreas Nickisch, Jürgen Wasem
Parental educational level and cardiovascular disease risk factors in schoolchildren in large urban areas of Turkey: Directions for public health policy
Bike Kocaoglu, George Moschonis, Maria Dimitriou, Maria Kolotourou, Yasar Keskin, Haydar Sur, Osman Hayran, Yannis Manios
Treatment outcome of new culture positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Norway
Mohamed Guled Farah, Aage Tverdal, Tore W Steen, Einar Heldal, Arne B Brantsaeter, Gunnar Bjune
Cardiovascular comorbidities among public health clinic patients with diabetes: the Urban Diabetics Study
Jessica M Robbins, David A Webb, Christopher N Sciamanna
Leisure-time versus full-day energy expenditure: a cross-sectional study of sedentarism in a Portuguese urban population
Diane L Gal, Ana-Cristina Santos, Henrique Barros
Low adherence with antihypertensives in actual practice: the association with social participation – a multilevel analysis
Kristina Johnell, Lennart Råstam, Thor Lithman, Jan Sundquist, Juan Merlo
Permissive nicotine regulation as a complement to traditional tobacco control
Walton Sumner II
Comparison of patterns of use, beliefs, and attitudes related to waterpipe between beginning and established smokers
Taghrid Asfar, Kenneth D Ward, Thomas Eissenberg, Wasim Maziak
Socioeconomic factors and low birth weight in Mexico
Laura P Torres-Arreola, Patricia Constantino-Casas, Sergio Flores-Hernández, Juan Pablo Villa-Barragán, Enrique Rendón-Macías
Admission to hospital following head injury in England: Incidence and socio-economic associations
Alan Tennant
Patterns of lung cancer mortality in 23 countries: Application of the Age-Period-Cohort model
Yung-Po Liaw, Yi-Chia Huang, Guang-Wen Lien
Epidemiology of acute coronary syndromes in a Mediterranean country; aims, design and baseline characteristics of the Greek study of acute coronary syndromes (GREECS)
Christos Pitsavos, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Antonis Antonoulas, Spyros Zombolos, Yannis Kogias, Yannis Mantas, Peter Stravopodis, Georgia Kourlaba, Christodoulos Stefanadis
Time trends in the impact factor of Public Health journals
Gonzalo López-Abente, Concha Muñoz-Tinoco
Risk factors for treatment delay in pulmonary tuberculosis in Recife, Brazil
Martinho APS dos Santos, Maria FPM Albuquerque, Ricardo AA Ximenes, Norma LCL Lucena-Silva, Cynthia Braga, Antônio RL Campelo, Odimariles MS Dantas, Ulisses R Montarroyos, Wayner V Souza, Alexandre M Kawasaki, Laura C Rodrigues
Evaluating an intervention to reduce fear of falling and associated activity restriction in elderly persons: design of a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN43792817]
GAR Zijlstra, JCM van Haastregt, JThM van Eijk, GIJM Kempen
Smoking and tooth discolouration: findings from a national cross-sectional study
Mhd N Alkhatib, Ruth D Holt, Raman Bedi
A qualitative study to identify community structures for management of severe malaria: a basis for introducing rectal artesunate in the under five years children in Nakonde District of Zambia
Frederick AD Kaona, Mary Tuba
Public health education: A report from Mosul and a plan for change
Gail D Hughes, Ally Mack, Kathie Stromile Golden
The immediate effects of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic on childbirth in Taiwan
Cheng-Hua Lee, Nicole Huang, Hong-Jen Chang, Yea-Jen Hsu, Mei-Chu Wang, Yiing-Jenq Chou
You might as well smoke; the misleading and harmful public message about smokeless tobacco
Carl V Phillips, Constance Wang, Brian Guenzel
Mid-term Body Mass Index increase among obese and non-obese individuals in middle life and deprivation status: A cohort study
Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Patrick McElduff, Richard F Heller, Margaret Hanily, Philip S Lewis
Attitudes to and management of fertility among primary health care physicians in Turkey: An epidemiological study
Hikmet Hassa, Unal Ayranci, Ilhami Unluoglu, Selma Metintas, Alaeddin Unsal
Effect of a chemical manufacturing plant on community cancer rates
Trish Mannes, Katy Emmett, Alan Willmore, Tim Churches, Vicky Sheppeard, Jill Kaldor
Development and evaluation of a hand held computer based on-call pack for health protection out of hours duty: A pilot study
Ibrahim Abubakar, Christopher J Williams, Marian McEvoy
Predictors of glycemic control among patients with Type 2 diabetes: A longitudinal study
Stephen R Benoit, Regina Fleming, Athena Philis-Tsimikas, Ming Ji
Epidemiology of leisure-time physical activity in socio-demographic, lifestyle and psychological characteristics of men and women in Greece: the ATTICA Study
Christos Pitsavos, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Yannis Lentzas, Christodoulos Stefanadis
Contextualizing and assessing the social capital of seniors in congregate housing residences: study design and methods
Spencer Moore, Alan Shiell, Valerie Haines, Therese Riley, Carrie Collier
Assessment of potential effects of the electromagnetic fields of mobile phones on hearing
Ingrida Uloziene, Virgilijus Uloza, Egle Gradauskiene, Viktoras Saferis
Was an increase in cocaine use among injecting drug users in New South Wales, Australia, accompanied by an increase in violent crime?
Louisa Degenhardt, Carolyn Day, Wayne Hall, Elizabeth Conroy, Stuart Gilmour
Ethnic and age-related fat free mass loss in older Americans: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)
Thomas O Obisesan, Muktar H Aliyu, Vernon Bond, Richard G Adams, Abimbola Akomolafe, Charles N Rotimi
Compulsory and recommended vaccination in Italy: evaluation of coverage and non-compliance between 1998-2002 in Northern Italy
Serena Stampi, Rita Ricci, Isa Ruffilli, Franca Zanetti
Rationale, design and conduct of a comprehensive evaluation of a school-based peer-led anti-smoking intervention in the UK: the ASSIST cluster randomised trial [ISRCTN55572965]
Fenella Starkey, Laurence Moore, Rona Campbell, Mark Sidaway, Michael Bloor
Mental health literacy in an educational elite – an online survey among university students
Christoph Lauber, Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Nadja Fritschi, Niklaus Stulz, Wulf Rössler
Overweight and obesity at school entry among migrant and German children: a cross-sectional study
Beata Will, Hajo Zeeb, Bernhard T Baune
Rural residence is not a risk factor for frequent mental distress: a behavioral risk factor surveillance survey
James E Rohrer, Tyrone F Borders, Jimmy Blanton
Prevalence of nonvitamin, nonmineral supplement usage among students in a Turkish university
Unal Ayranci, Nazan Son, Osman Son
Screening for asthma in Cantonese-speaking immigrant children
Robyn O Greenfield, Angela C Lee, Roland Tang, Doug Brugge
A mass vaccination campaign targeting adults and children to prevent typhoid fever in Hechi; Expanding the use of Vi polysaccharide vaccine in Southeast China: A cluster-randomized trial
Jin Yang, Camilo J Acosta, Guo-ai Si, Jun Zeng, Cui-yun Li, Da-bin Liang, R Leon Ochiai, Anne-Laure Page, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Jie Zhang, Bao-de Zhou, He-zhuang Liao, Ming-liu Wang, Dong-mei Tan, Zhen-zhu Tang, Jian Gong, Jin-Kyung Park, Mohammad Ali, Bernard Ivanoff, Gui-chen Liang, Hong-hui Yang, Tikki Pang, Zhi-yi Xu, Allan Donner, Claudia M Galindo, Bai-qing Dong, John D Clemens
Epidemiology of episodic adenolymphangitis: a longitudinal prospective surveillance among a rural community endemic for bancroftian filariasis in coastal Orissa, India
Bontha V Babu, Abhay N Nayak, Kalpataru Dhal
Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey
Khabir Ahmad, Tazeen H Jafar, Nish Chaturvedi
Are non-responders in a quitline evaluation more likely to be smokers?
Tanja Tomson, Catrine Björnström, Hans Gilljam, Asgeir Helgason
Accumulation of health risk behaviours is associated with lower socioeconomic status and women's urban residence: a multilevel analysis in Japan
Yoshiharu Fukuda, Keiko Nakamura, Takehito Takano
Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
Pauline Slottje, Anja C Huizink, Jos WR Twisk, Anke B Witteveen, Henk M van der Ploeg, Inge Bramsen, Nynke Smidt, Joost A Bijlsma, Lex M Bouter, Willem van Mechelen, Tjabe Smid
Increase of mild disability in Japanese elders: A seven year follow-up cohort study
Jiro Okochi
Rapid assessment of injection practices in Cambodia, 2002
Sirenda Vong, Joseph F Perz, Srun Sok, Seiharath Som, Susan Goldstein, Yvan Hutin, James Tulloch
Gender and age differences among current smokers in a general population survey
Ulrich John, Monika Hanke, Christian Meyer, Anja Schumann
The use of simplified verbal autopsy in identifying causes of adult death in a predominantly rural population in Ethiopia
Kidest Lulu, Yemane Berhane
Measles vaccine coverage and factors related to uncompleted vaccination among 18-month-old and 36-month-old children in Kyoto, Japan
Takayo Matsumura, Takeo Nakayama, Shigeru Okamoto, Hideko Ito
Routine testing for IgG antibodies against hepatitis A virus in Israel
Noah Samuels
Sex- and age-specific trends in mortality from suicide and undetermined death in Germany 1991–2002
Jens J Baumert, Natalia Erazo, Karl-Heinz Ladwig
DOTS improves treatment outcomes and service coverage for tuberculosis in South Ethiopia: a retrospective trend analysis
Estifanos B Shargie, Bernt Lindtjørn
Improving the Deaf community's access to prostate and testicular cancer information: a survey study
Ann Folkins, Georgia Robins Sadler, Celine Ko, Patricia Branz, Shane Marsh, Michael Bovee
Changes in social inequality with respect to health-related living conditions of 6-year-old children in East Germany after re-unification
Xianming du Prel, Ursula Krämer, Ulrich Ranft
Municipal health expectancy in Japan: decreased healthy longevity of older people in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas
Yoshiharu Fukuda, Keiko Nakamura, Takehito Takano
Seroprevalence and risk factors for toxoplasmainfection among pregnant women in Aydin province, Turkey
Sema Ertug, Pinar Okyay, Munevver Turkmen, Hasan Yuksel
A prospective study of cumulative job stress in relation to mental health
Isabelle Godin, France Kittel, Yves Coppieters, Johannes Siegrist
The incidence of varicella and herpes zoster in Massachusetts as measured by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) during a period of increasing varicella vaccine coverage, 1998–2003
W Katherine Yih, Daniel R Brooks, Susan M Lett, Aisha O Jumaan, Zi Zhang, Karen M Clements, Jane F Seward
Down syndrome, paternal age and education: comparison of California and the Czech Republic
Dagmara Dzurova, Hynek Pikhart
Washing our hands of the congenital cytomegalovirus disease epidemic
Michael J Cannon, Katherine Finn Davis
International public health research involving interpreters: a case study from Bangladesh
Emma Pitchforth, Edwin van Teijlingen
Household cost-benefit equations and sustainable universal childhood immunisation: a randomised cluster controlled trial in south Pakistan [ISRCTN12421731]
Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft, Noor Ansari, Khalid Omer, Joe Losos, Robert J Ledogar, Peter Tugwell, Beverley Shea
Prevalence of thyroid nodules in an occupationally radiation exposed group: a cross sectional study in an area with mild iodine deficiency
Paolo Trerotoli, Anna Ciampolillo, Giuseppe Marinelli, Riccardo Giorgino, Gabriella Serio
College campus smoking policies and programs and students' smoking behaviors
Tyrone F Borders, K Tom Xu, Donna Bacchi, Lee Cohen, Danielle SoRelle-Miner
Are alcoholism treatments effective? The Project MATCH data
Robert B Cutler, David A Fishbain
Are Alcoholism Treatments Effective? The Project MATCH Data: Response
William R Miller
Rationale, design and conduct of a comprehensive evaluation of a primary care based intervention to improve the quality of life of osteoarthritis patients. The PraxArt-project: a cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN87252339]
Thomas Rosemann, Thorsten Körner, Michel Wensing, Jochen Gensichen, Christiane Muth, Stefanie Joos, Joachim Szecsenyi
Psychophysiological effects of a web-based stress management system: A prospective, randomized controlled intervention study of IT and media workers [ISRCTN54254861]
Dan Hasson, Ulla Maria Anderberg, Töres Theorell, Bengt B Arnetz
Socioeconomic factors and adolescent pregnancy outcomes: distinctions between neonatal and post-neonatal deaths?
Barry P Markovitz, Rebeka Cook, Louise H Flick, Terry L Leet
The influence of in-pregnancy smoking cessation programmes on partner quitting and women's social support mobilization: a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN89131885]
Paul Aveyard, Terry Lawrence, Olga Evans, KK Cheng
Health system outcomes and determinants amenable to public health in industrialized countries: a pooled, cross-sectional time series analysis
Onyebuchi A Arah, Gert P Westert, Diana M Delnoij, Niek S Klazinga
An evaluation of a morphine public health programme for cancer and AIDS pain relief in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dorothy E Logie, Richard Harding
Suicidal tendencies and attitude towards freedom to choose suicide among Lithuanian schoolchildren: results from three cross-sectional studies in 1994, 1998, and 2002
Nida Zemaitiene, Apolinaras Zaborskis
The impact of changes to heroin supply on blood-borne virus notifications and injecting related harms in New South Wales, Australia
Carolyn Day, Louisa Degenhardt, Stuart Gilmour, Wayne Hall
Health disparities and advertising content of women's magazines: a cross-sectional study
Susan C Duerksen, Amy Mikail, Laura Tom, Annie Patton, Janina Lopez, Xavier Amador, Reynaldo Vargas, Maria Victorio, Brenda Kustin, Georgia Robins Sadler
Falls in young, middle-aged and older community dwelling adults: perceived cause, environmental factors and injury
Laura A Talbot, Robin J Musiol, Erica K Witham, E Jeffery Metter
High risk of HIV in non-brothel based female sex workers in India
Rakhi Dandona, Lalit Dandona, Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Anil G Kumar, Sam McPherson, Fiona Samuels, Stefano M Bertozzi
Effectiveness of different methods of health education: A comparative assessment in a scientific conference
Asim Saha, Era Poddar, Minal Mankad
Patterns of HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in the cross-border area of Lang Son Province, Vietnam, and Ning Ming County, Guangxi Province, China
Don C Des Jarlais, Patrick Johnston, Patricia Friedmann, Ryan Kling, Wei Liu, Doan Ngu, Yi Chen, Tran V Hoang, Meng Donghua, Ly K Van, Nguyen D Tung, Kieu T Binh, Theodore M Hammett
The relationship between risk factors for falling and the quality of life in older adults
Ayse Ozcan, Hulya Donat, Nihal Gelecek, Mehtap Ozdirenc, Didem Karadibak
The impact of partial smokefree legislation on health inequalities: Evidence from a survey of 1150 pubs in North West England
Karen Tocque, Richard Edwards, Brenda Fullard
Pride and confidence at work: potential predictors of occupational health in a hospital setting
Kerstin Nilsson, Anna Hertting, Inga-Lill Petterson, Töres Theorell
Methodological aspects of a GIS-based environmental health inspection program used in the Athens 2004 Olympic and Para Olympic Games
Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Elpidoforos S Soteriades, Virginia Kolonia, Matthew E Falagas, Efstathios Pantelopoulos, Georgios Panagakos, Varvara Mouchtouri, Jeni Kremastinou
Validation of self reported diagnosis of hypertension in a cohort of university graduates in Spain
Alvaro Alonso, Juan José Beunza, Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez, Miguel Angel Martínez-González
AIDS knowledge and attitudes in a Turkish population: an epidemiological study
Unal Ayranci
Comparison of prevalence and severity of asthma among adolescents in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago: results of a nationwide cross-sectional survey
Michele A Monteil, Gina Joseph, Catherine Changkit, Gillian Wheeler, Robin M Antoine
A population-based study of asthma, quality of life, and occupation among elderly Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites: a cross-sectional investigation
Ahmed A Arif, James E Rohrer, George L Delclos
HIV prevention programmes for female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: outputs, cost and efficiency
Lalit Dandona, Pratap Sisodia, SG Prem Kumar, YK Ramesh, A Anod Kumar, M Chalapathi Rao, Elliot Marseille, M Someshwar, Nell Marshall, James G Kahn
ELSID-Diabetes study-evaluation of a large scale implementation of disease management programmes for patients with type 2 diabetes. Rationale, design and conduct – a study protocol [ISRCTN08471887]
Stefanie Joos, Thomas Rosemann, Marc Heiderhoff, Michel Wensing, Sabine Ludt, Jochen Gensichen, Petra Kaufmann-Kolle, Joachim Szecsenyi
Birth outcomes in Colorado's undocumented immigrant population
Mary M Reed, John M Westfall, Caroline Bublitz, Catherine Battaglia, Alexandra Fickenscher
Case management for the treatment of patients with major depression in general practices – rationale, design and conduct of a cluster randomized controlled trial – PRoMPT (Primary care Monitoring for depressive Patient's Trial) [ISRCTN66386086] – Study protocol
Jochen Gensichen, Marion Torge, Monika Peitz, Heike Wendt-Hermainski, Martin Beyer, Thomas Rosemann, Christian Krauth, Heiner Raspe, Josef B Aldenhoff, Ferdinand M Gerlach
Is relatively young age within a school year a risk factor for mental health problems and poor school performance? A population-based cross-sectional study of adolescents in Oslo, Norway
Lars Lien, Kristian Tambs, Brit Oppedal, Sonja Heyerdahl, Espen Bjertness
Work ethics and general work attitudes in adolescents are related to quality of life, sense of coherence and subjective health – a Swedish questionnaire study
Lars Axelsson, Ingemar Andersson, Anders Håkansson, Göran Ejlertsson
Differing mental health practice among general practitioners, private psychiatrists and public psychiatrists
N Younès, MC Hardy-Bayle, B Falissard, V Kovess, MP Chaillet, I Gasquet
Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City
Melanie Besculides, Richard Heffernan, Farzad Mostashari, Don Weiss
Unfavourable birth outcomes of the Roma women in the Czech Republic and the potential explanations: a population-based study
Martin Bobak, Jan Dejmek, Ivo Solansky, Radim J Sram
Prevalence and associations of symptoms of upper extremities, repetitive strain injuries (RSI) and 'RSI-like condition'. A cross sectional study of bank workers in Northeast Brazil
Eliana M Lacerda, Luis C Nácul, Lia G da S Augusto, Maria Teresa A Olinto, Dyhanne C Rocha, Danielle C Wanderley
Assessing immunization data quality from routine reports in Mozambique
João C Mavimbe, Jørn Braa, Gunnar Bjune
Khat and alcohol use and risky sex behaviour among in-school and out-of-school youth in Ethiopia
Derege Kebede, Atalay Alem, Getnet Mitike, Fikre Enquselassie, Frehiwot Berhane, Yigeremu Abebe, Reta Ayele, Wuleta Lemma, Tamrat Assefa, Tewodros Gebremichael
Improving rates of pneumococcal vaccination on discharge from a tertiary center medical teaching unit: A prospective intervention
Chandra M Thomas, Andrea Loewen, Carla Coffin, Norman RC Campbell
Risk factors for adverse perinatal outcomes in imprisoned pregnant women: a systematic review
Marian Knight, Emma Plugge
Diet induced weight loss accelerates onset of negative alliesthesia in obese women
Patrick Frankham, Caroline Gosselin, Michel Cabanac
Protocol for: Sheffield Obesity Trial (SHOT): A randomised controlled trial of exercise therapy and mental health outcomes in obese adolescents [ISRCNT83888112]
Amanda J Daley, Robert J Copeland, Neil P Wright, Jerry KH Wales
Blood pressure patterns in rural, semi-urban and urban children in the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa
Charles Agyemang, William K Redekop, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Marc A Bruijnzeels
Homeopathic medical practice: Long-term results of a cohort study with 3981 patients
Claudia M Witt, Rainer Lüdtke, Roland Baur, Stefan N Willich
The contribution of leading diseases and risk factors to excess losses of healthy life in eastern Europe: burden of disease study
John W Powles, Witold Zatonski, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Majid Ezzati
Lithuanian health care in transitional state: ethical problems
Irayda Jakušovaitė, Žilvinas Darulis, Romualdas Žekas
Prevalence of Helicobacter pyloriinfection and associated factors among adults in Southern Brazil: a population-based cross-sectional study
Ina S Santos, Jose Boccio, Ari S Santos, Neiva CJ Valle, Camila S Halal, Marta Colvara Bachilli, Ricardo D Lopes
Neglected diseases of neglected populations: Thinking to reshape the determinants of health in Latin America and the Caribbean
John P Ehrenberg, Steven K Ault
Hispanic physicians' tobacco intervention practices: a cross-sectional survey study
Francisco G Soto Mas, Richard L Papenfuss, Holly E Jacobson, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, William M Kane
Response of religious groups to HIV/AIDS as a sexually transmitted infection in Trinidad
Gillian L Genrich, Brader A Brathwaite
Patient and health service delay in pulmonary tuberculosis patients attending a referral hospital: a cross-sectional study
Mpungu S Kiwuwa, Karamagi Charles, Mayanja Kizza Harriet
An economic way of reducing health, environmental, and other pressures of urban traffic: a decision analysis on trip aggregation
Jouni T Tuomisto, Marko Tainio
Cardiovascular health knowledge and behavior in patient attendants at four tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan – a cause for concern
Fahim H Jafary, Fawad Aslam, Hussain Mahmud, Abdul Waheed, Murtaza Shakir, Atif Afzal, Mohammad A Qayyum, Javed Akram, Iqbal S Khan, Irshad U Haque
Comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure, total cholesterol, Body Mass Index and smoking among Caucasian and South-Asian participants of a UK primary-care based cardiovascular risk factor screening programme
Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Patrick McElduff, Richard F Heller, Margaret Hanily, Philip S Lewis
Patterns of alcohol drinking and its association with obesity: data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988–1994
Ahmed A Arif, James E Rohrer
Incidence of cancer in the area around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in 1988–2003: a population-based ecological study
Otto Visser, Joop H van Wijnen, Flora E van Leeuwen
Skin infection, housing and social circumstances in children living in remote Indigenous communities: testing conceptual and methodological approaches
Ross S Bailie, Matthew R Stevens, Elizabeth McDonald, Stephen Halpin, David Brewster, Gary Robinson, Steven Guthridge
Public perception of drinking water from private water supplies: focus group analyses
Andria Q Jones, Catherine E Dewey, Kathryn Doré, Shannon E Majowicz, Scott A McEwen, David Waltner-Toews, Spencer J Henson, Eric Mathews
Cost, affordability and cost-effectiveness of strategies to control tuberculosis in countries with high HIV prevalence
Christine SM Currie, Katherine Floyd, Brian G Williams, Christopher Dye
National estimates for maternal mortality: an analysis based on the WHO systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity
Ana P Betrán, Daniel Wojdyla, Samuel F Posner, A Metin Gülmezoglu
Socioeconomic status and non-fatal injuries among Canadian adolescents: variations across SES and injury measures
Beth K Potter, Kathy N Speechley, John J Koval, Iris A Gutmanis, M Karen Campbell, Douglas Manuel
(Cost)-effectiveness of case-management by district nurses among primary informal caregivers of older adults with dementia symptoms and the older adults who receive informal care: design of a randomized controlled trial [ISCRTN83135728]
Aaltje PD Jansen, Hein PJ van Hout, Harm WJ van Marwijk, Giel Nijpels, Martine C de Bruijne, Judith E Bosmans, Anne-Margriet Pot, Wim AB Stalman
Promoting physical activity using an activity monitor and a tailored web-based advice: design of a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN93896459]
Sander M Slootmaker, Marijke JM Chin A Paw, Albertine J Schuit, Jacob C Seidell, Willem van Mechelen
Use of a food frequency questionnaire in American Indian and Caucasian pregnant women: a validation study
Heather J Baer, Robin E Blum, Helaine RH Rockett, Jill Leppert, Jane D Gardner, Carol W Suitor, Graham A Colditz
Safer injections following a new national medicine policy in the public sector, Burkina Faso 1995 – 2000
Sophie Logez, Yvan Hutin, Paul Somda, Jérôme Thuault, Kathleen Holloway
E-health: Determinants, opportunities, challenges and the way forward for countries in the WHO African Region
Joses M Kirigia, Anthony Seddoh, Doris Gatwiri, Lenity HK Muthuri, Janet Seddoh
Socio-demographic factors associated with smoking and smoking cessation among 426,344 pregnant women in New South Wales, Australia
Mohammed Mohsin, Adrian E Bauman
Understanding non-compliance to colorectal cancer screening: a case control study, nested in a randomised trial [ISRCTN83029072]
Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Antonio Federici, Francesco Bartolozzi, Sara Farchi, Piero Borgia, Gabriella Guasticchi
Please understand when I cry out in pain: women's accounts of maternity services during labour and delivery in Ghana
Lucia D'Ambruoso, Mercy Abbey, Julia Hussein
An automated, broad-based, near real-time public health surveillance system using presentations to hospital Emergency Departments in New South Wales, Australia
David J Muscatello, Tim Churches, Jill Kaldor, Wei Zheng, Clayton Chiu, Patricia Correll, Louisa Jorm
Work factors and smoking cessation in nurses' aides: a prospective cohort study
Willy Eriksen