Ausgabe 1/2004
Inhalt (69 Artikel)
The reporting of theoretical health risks by the media: Canadian newspaper reporting of potential blood transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Kumanan Wilson, Catherine Code, Christopher Dornan, Nadya Ahmad, Paul Hébert, Ian Graham
Prevalence, and associated risk factors, of self-reported diabetes mellitus in a sample of adult urban population in Greece: MEDICAL Exit Poll Research in Salamis (MEDICAL EXPRESS 2002)
Aristofanis Gikas, Alexios Sotiropoulos, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Theodoros Peppas, Eystathios Skliros, Stavros Pappas
A survey of compliance: Medicaid's mandated blood lead screenings for children age 12–18 months in Nebraska
Marlene Wilken, Sarah Currier, Carla Abel-Zieg, Linda A Brady
Validation of the diagnosis of autism in general practitioner records
Eric Fombonne, Lisa Heavey, Liam Smeeth, Laura C Rodrigues, Claire Cook, Peter G Smith, Linyan Meng, Andrew J Hall
Measuring the effects of acupuncture and homoeopathy in general practice: An uncontrolled prospective documentation approach
Corina Güthlin, Oliver Lange, Harald Walach
Health and health care utilisation among asylum seekers and refugees in the Netherlands: design of a study
Annette AM Gerritsen, Inge Bramsen, Walter Devillé, Loes HM van Willigen, Johannes E Hovens, Henk M van der Ploeg
Reliability of sickness certificates in detecting potential sick leave reduction by modifying working conditions: a clinical epidemiology study
Nils Fleten, Roar Johnsen, Bente Skipenes Østrem
Prevalence of hyperuricemia and relation of serum uric acid with cardiovascular risk factors in a developing country
D Conen, V Wietlisbach, P Bovet, C Shamlaye, W Riesen, F Paccaud, M Burnier
"New Choices" for women with addictions: perceptions of program participants
Wendy Sword, Alison Niccols, Aimei Fan
Health promotion through self-care and community participation: Elements of a proposed programme in the developing countries
Khanindra Kumar Bhuyan
Attrition and bias in the MRC cognitive function and ageing study: an epidemiological investigation
Fiona E Matthews, Mark Chatfield, Carol Freeman, Cherie McCracken, Carol Brayne, MRC CFAS
Hepatitis B virus infection in Haemodialysis Centres from Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil. Predictive risk factors for infection and molecular epidemiology
Flair J Carrilho, Cleusa R Moraes, João RR Pinho, Isabel MVGC Mello, Dennis A Bertolini, Marcílio F Lemos, Regina C Moreira, Leda C Bassit, Rita A Cardoso, Gabriela Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Luiz C Da Silva
Low literacy Chinese patients: how are they affected and how do they cope with health matters? A qualitative study
TP Lam, YH Cheng, YL Chan
Feasibility of identifying families for genetic studies of birth defects using the National Health Interview Survey
Diego F Wyszynski, Vikki G Nolan
Knowledge and attitude towards HIV/AIDS among Iranian students
Anahita Tavoosi, Azadeh Zaferani, Anahita Enzevaei, Parvin Tajik, Zahra Ahmadinezhad
Patterns of delays amongst pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Lagos, Nigeria
Olumuyiwa O Odusanya, Joseph O Babafemi
Crowding: risk factor or protective factor for lower respiratory disease in young children?
Maria Regina Alves Cardoso, Simon Nicholas Cousens, Luiz Fernando de Góes Siqueira, Fátima Maria Alves, Luiz Antônio V D'Angelo
Does a perception of increased blood safety mean increased blood transfusion? An assessment of the risk compensation theory in Canada
Mo Amin, Kumanan Wilson, Alan Tinmouth, Paul Hébert
Barriers to asymptomatic screening and other STD services for adolescents and young adults: focus group discussions
Elizabeth C Tilson, Victoria Sanchez, Chandra L Ford, Marlene Smurzynski, Peter A Leone, Kimberley K Fox, Kathleen Irwin, William C Miller
Reliability and validity of a short form household food security scale in a Caribbean community
Martin C Gulliford, Deepak Mahabir, Brian Rocke
Exploratory spatial data analysis for the identification of risk factors to birth defects
Jilei Wu, Jinfeng Wang, Bin Meng, Gong Chen, Lihua Pang, Xinming Song, Keli Zhang, Ting Zhang, Xiaoying Zheng
Knowledge of AIDS and HIV risk-related sexual behavior among Nigerian naval personnel
Ugboga Adaji Nwokoji, Ademola J Ajuwon
Analysis of inadequate cervical smears using Shewhart control charts
Wayne N Harrison, Mohammed A Mohammed, Michael K Wall, Tom P Marshall
Risk factors and in-hospital outcomes in stroke and myocardial infarction patients
Mario Ivanusa, Zrinka Ivanusa
Self-reported ill health in male UK Gulf War veterans: a retrospective cohort study
Rebecca Simmons, Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle
Smoking cigarettes of low nicotine yield does not reduce nicotine intake as expected: a study of nicotine dependency in Japanese males
Atsuko Nakazawa, Masako Shigeta, Kotaro Ozasa
Evaluation of reporting timeliness of public health surveillance systems for infectious diseases
Ruth Ann Jajosky, Samuel L Groseclose
Geographic correlation between deprivation and risk of meningococcal disease: an ecological study
Christopher J Williams, Lorna J Willocks, Iain R Lake, Paul R Hunter
The usefulness of the Korean version of modified Mini-Mental State Examination (K-mMMSE) for dementia screening in community dwelling elderly people
Seul-Ki Jeong, Ki-Hyun Cho, Jae-Min Kim
Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria
Samer Rastam, Kenneth D Ward, Thomas Eissenberg, Wasim Maziak
Field assessments in western Kenya link malaria vectors to environmentally disturbed habitats during the dry season
John C Carlson, Brian D Byrd, Francois X Omlin
Logistics of community smallpox control through contact tracing and ring vaccination: a stochastic network model
Travis C Porco, Karen A Holbrook, Susan E Fernyak, Diane L Portnoy, Randy Reiter, Tomás J Aragón
The National Women's Health Study: assembly and description of a population-based reproductive cohort
Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle, Susan Prior
Rates of influenza vaccination in older adults and factors associated with vaccine use: A secondary analysis of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging
Melissa K Andrew, Shelly McNeil, Heather Merry, Kenneth Rockwood
Assessing computer skills in Tanzanian medical students: an elective experience
Miriam Samuel, John C Coombes, J Jaime Miranda, Rob Melvin, Eoin JW Young, Pejman Azarmina
Vitamin D deficiency and causative factors in the population of Tehran
Sima Hashemipour, Bagher Larijani, Hossein Adibi, Ebrahim Javadi, Mojtaba Sedaghat, Mohammad Pajouhi, Akbar Soltani, Ali Reza Shafaei, Zohreh Hamidi, Ali Reza Khalili Fard, Arash Hossein-Nezhad, Fargol Booya
The Internet and HIV study: design and methods
Jonathan Elford, Graham Bolding, Mark Davis, Lorraine Sherr, Graham Hart
An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 34a infection associated with a Chinese restaurant in Suffolk, United Kingdom
Padmanabhan Badrinath, Torbjorn Sundkvist, Hamid Mahgoub, Richard Kent
The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: an analysis of a sample of Australian government employees
Ruth A Parslow, Anthony F Jorm, Helen Christensen, Dorothy H Broom, Lyndall Strazdins, Rennie M D' Souza
Fear of nuclear war increases the risk of common mental disorders among young adults: a five-year follow-up study
Kari Poikolainen, Terhi Aalto-Setälä, Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson, Mauri Marttunen, Jouko Lönnqvist
Targeting smoking cessation to high prevalence communities: outcomes from a pilot intervention for gay men
Richard Harding, James Bensley, Nick Corrigan
The validity of the SF-36 in an Australian National Household Survey: demonstrating the applicability of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examination of health inequalities
Peter Butterworth, Timothy Crosier
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
Bjørn Blomberg, Davis SM Mwakagile, Willy K Urassa, Samwel Y Maselle, Marcellina Mashurano, Asbjørn Digranes, Stig Harthug, Nina Langeland
Length of sick leave – Why not ask the sick-listed? Sick-listed individuals predict their length of sick leave more accurately than professionals
Nils Fleten, Roar Johnsen, Olav Helge Førde
Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India
Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Richard Peto
The ProActivetrial protocol – a randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a family-based, domiciliary intervention programme to increase physical activity among individuals at high risk of diabetes [ISRCTN61323766]
Kate Williams, A Toby Prevost, Simon Griffin, Wendy Hardeman, William Hollingworth, David Spiegelhalter, Stephen Sutton, Ulf Ekelund, Nicholas Wareham, Ann Louise Kinmonth
Trends in suicide in Scotland 1981 – 1999: age, method and geography
Cameron Stark, Paddy Hopkins, Diane Gibbs, Tracey Rapson, Alan Belbin, Alistair Hay
A systematic review of the effectiveness of antimicrobial rinse-free hand sanitizers for prevention of illness-related absenteeism in elementary school children
Emily Meadows, Nicole Le Saux
Allergic conditions and risk of hematological malignancies in adults: a cohort study
Karin C Söderberg, Lars Hagmar, Judith Schwartzbaum, Maria Feychting
Validating the Time and Change test to screen for dementia in elderly Koreans
Jung-Ae Rhee, Eun-Kyung Chung, Min-Ho Shin
Overweight, obesity, and colorectal cancer screening: Disparity between men and women
Moonseong Heo, David B Allison, Kevin R Fontaine
Females do not have more injury road accidents on Friday the 13th
Igor Radun, Heikki Summala
The lack of public health research output from India
Lalit Dandona, Yegnanarayana S Sivan, Mukkamala N Jyothi, VS Udaya Bhaskar, Rakhi Dandona
Mineral water intake reduces blood pressure among subjects with low urinary magnesium and calcium levels
Ragnar Rylander, Maurice J Arnaud
The family as a determinant of stunting in children living in conditions of extreme poverty: a case-control study
Hortensia Reyes, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, Araceli Sandoval, Raúl Castillo, José Ignacio Santos, Svetlana V Doubova, Gonzalo Gutiérrez
Educational and economic determinants of food intake in Portuguese adults: a cross-sectional survey
Pedro A Moreira, Patricia D Padrão
Interaction among general practitioners age and patient load in the prediction of job strain, decision latitude and perception of job demands. A Cross-sectional study
Giedrius Vanagas, Susanna Bihari-Axelsson
Validity of self reported male balding patterns in epidemiological studies
Rosalind Taylor, Julia Matassa, Justine E Leavy, Lin Fritschi
The effect of cigarette price increase on the cigarette consumption in Taiwan: evidence from the National Health Interview Surveys on cigarette consumption
Jie-Min Lee, Tsorng-Chyi Hwang, Chun-Yuan Ye, Sheng-Hong Chen
Colorectal cancer screening among African American church members: A qualitative and quantitative study of patient-provider communication
Mira L Katz, Aimee S James, Michael P Pignone, Marlyn A Hudson, Ethel Jackson, Veronica Oates, Marci K Campbell
Association between mortality from suicide in England and antidepressant prescribing: an ecological study
Oliver WC Morgan, Clare Griffiths, Azeem Majeed
Intestinal parasites prevalence and related factors in school children, a western city sample-Turkey
Pinar Okyay, Sema Ertug, Berna Gultekin, Ozlem Onen, Erdal Beser
Induced abortion and effecting factors of ever married women in the Southeast Anatolian Project Region, Turkey: a cross sectional study
Ali Ihsan Bozkurt, Birgul Özcirpici, Servet Ozgur, Saime Sahinoz, Turgut Sahinoz, Gunay Saka, Ali Ceylan, Ersen Ilcin, Hamit Acemoglu, Yilmaz Palanci, Feridun Akkafa, Mucide Ak
Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002
Colin D Mathers, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Joshua A Salomon, Ajay Tandon, Somnath Chatterji, Bedirhan Ustün, Christopher JL Murray
Treatment of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle and/or low back pain after delivery design of a randomized clinical trial within a comprehensive prognostic cohort study [ISRCTN08477490]
Caroline HG Bastiaenen, Rob A de Bie, Pieter MJC Wolters, Johan WS Vlaeyen, Janneke M Bastiaanssen, Aldegonda BA Klabbers, Annie Heuts, Piet A van den Brandt, Gerard GM Essed
An assessment of factors contributing to treatment adherence and knowledge of TB transmission among patients on TB treatment
Frederick AD Kaona, Mary Tuba, Seter Siziya, Lenganji Sikaona
The Latin American Social Medicine database
Jonathan D Eldredge, Howard Waitzkin, Holly S Buchanan, Janis Teal, Celia Iriart, Kevin Wiley, Jonathan Tregear