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BMC Public Health

Ausgabe 1/2002

Inhalt (27 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study

Sandra C Fuchs, Sylvia M Guimarães, Cristine Sortica, Fernanda Wainberg, Karine O Dias, Mariana Ughini, José Augusto S Castro, Flavio D Fuchs

Open Access Research article

Conceptual framework of public health surveillance and action and its application in health sector reform

Scott JN McNabb, Stella Chungong, Mike Ryan, Tadesse Wuhib, Peter Nsubuga, Wondi Alemu, Vilma Carande-Kulis, Guenael Rodier

Open Access Debate

Assessment of the infectious diseases surveillance system of the Republic of Armenia: an example of surveillance in the Republics of the former Soviet Union

Tadesse Wuhib, Terence L Chorba, Vladimir Davidiants, William R Mac Kenzie, Scott JN McNabb

Open Access Research article

Predictors of refusal to participate: a longitudinal health survey of the elderly in Australia

Patricia A Jacomb, Anthony F Jorm, Ailsa E Korten, Helen Christensen, A Scott Henderson

Open Access Research article

Giardiasis in children living in post-earthquake camps from Armenia (Colombia)

Fabiana Lora-Suarez, Carolina Marin-Vasquez, Nelsy Loango, Martha Gallego, Elizabeth Torres, Maria Mercedes Gonzalez, Jhon Carlos Castaño-Osorio, Jorge Enrique Gómez-Marín

Open Access Research article

Verbal autopsy of 48 000 adult deaths attributable to medical causes in Chennai (formerly Madras), India

Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Richard Peto, Santhanakrishnan Kanaka, Sivagurunathan Balasubramanian

Open Access Research article

Validation and results of a questionnaire for functional bowel disease in out-patients

Ioannis A Mouzas, Nikolaos Fragkiadakis, Joanna Moschandreas, Andreas Karachristos, Panagiotis Skordilis, E Kouroumalis, Orestes N Manousos

Open Access Research article

The association between secondhand smoke and the risk of developing acute coronary syndromes, among non-smokers, under the presence of several cardiovascular risk factors: The CARDIO2000 case-control study

Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, Christos Pitsavos, Ioanna Papaioannou, John Skoumas, Christodoulos Stefanadis, Pavlos Toutouzas

Open Access Research article

Preconceptional factors associated with very low birthweight delivery in East and West Berlin: a case control study

Ingrid Grimmer, Christoph Bührer, Joachim W Dudenhausen, Andrea Stroux, Horst Reiher, Horst Halle, Michael Obladen

Open Access Research article

Interactions of pathogens and irritant chemicals in land-applied sewage sludges (biosolids)

David L Lewis, David K Gattie, Marc E Novak, Susan Sanchez, Charles Pumphrey

Open Access Research article

Oral cancer treatment costs in Greece and the effect of advanced disease

Athanasios Zavras, Nikos Andreopoulos, Nikos Katsikeris, Dimitrios Zavras, Vassiliki Cartsos, Athanasios Vamvakidis

Open Access Research article

Identification of bacteria in drinking and purified water during the monitoring of a typical water purification system

Vessoni Thereza Christina Penna, Silva Alzira Maria Martins, Priscila Gava Mazzola

Open Access Research article

Comparison of deferral rates using a computerized versus written blood donor questionnaire: a randomized, cross-over study [ISRCTN84429599]

John W Sellors, Robert Hayward, Graham Swanson, Anita Ali, R Brian Haynes, Ronald Bourque, Karen-Ann Moore, Lynne Lohfeld, Dawn Dalby, Michelle Howard

Open Access Research article

The new middle level health workers training in the Amhara regional state of Ethiopia: students' perspective

Haileyesus Getahun, Hanna Yirga, Daniel Argaw

Open Access Research article

Physician perceptions of primary prevention: qualitative base for the conceptual shaping of a practice intervention tool

Amy L Mirand, Gregory P Beehler, Christina L Kuo, Martin C Mahoney

Open Access Hypothesis

Is council tax valuation band a predictor of mortality?

Norman R Beale, Gordon J Taylor, Dawn MK Straker-Cook

Open Access Research article

Regular use of aspirin and pancreatic cancer risk

Ravi J Menezes, Kenneth R Huber, Martin C Mahoney, Kirsten B Moysich

Open Access Study protocol

Effects of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases on left ventricular structure and function: a study protocol

Ugo Cioffi, Michele M Ciulla, Matilde De Simone, Roberta Paliotti, Alberto Pierini, Fabio Magrini, Fiorenzo Botti, Ettore Contessini-Avesani

Open Access Research article

Workers' compensation claims related to natural rubber latex gloves among Oregon healthcare employees from 1987–1998

Irwin B Horwitz, John Kammeyer-Mueller, Brian P McCall

Open Access Research article

The average cost of measles cases and adverse events following vaccination in industrialised countries

Hélène Carabin, W John Edmunds, Ulla Kou, Susan van den Hof, Van Hung Nguyen

Open Access Research article

Patient and health service delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia

Meaza Demissie, Bernt Lindtjorn, Yemane Berhane

Open Access Research article

Stroke in urban and rural populations in north-east Bulgaria: incidence and case fatality findings from a 'hot pursuit' study

John Powles, Philip Kirov, Nevijana Feschieva, Marin Stanoev, Virginia Atanasova

Open Access Research article

Perceptions about prenatal care: views of urban vulnerable groups

Renee Milligan, Barbara K Wingrove, Leslie Richards, Margaret Rodan, Lillie Monroe-Lord, Velishie Jackson, Barbara Hatcher, Cynthia Harris, Cassandra Henderson, Allan A Johnson

Open Access Research article

Risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lia L Lewis-Ximenez, Kycia MR do Ó, Cleber F Ginuino, Jucimara C Silva, Hermann G Schatzmayr, Sherri Stuver, Clara FT Yoshida

Open Access Research article

Polio eradication initiative in Africa: influence on other infectious disease surveillance development

Peter Nsubuga, Sharon McDonnell, Bradley Perkins, Roland Sutter, Linda Quick, Mark White, Stephen Cochi, Mac Otten