Issue 1/2002
Content (27 Articles)
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
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
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
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
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
Adverse effects of the antimalaria drug, mefloquine: due to primary liver damage with secondary thyroid involvement?
Ashley M Croft, Andrew Herxheimer
Verbal autopsy of 48 000 adult deaths attributable to medical causes in Chennai (formerly Madras), India
Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Richard Peto, Santhanakrishnan Kanaka, Sivagurunathan Balasubramanian
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
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
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
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
Oral cancer treatment costs in Greece and the effect of advanced disease
Athanasios Zavras, Nikos Andreopoulos, Nikos Katsikeris, Dimitrios Zavras, Vassiliki Cartsos, Athanasios Vamvakidis
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
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
The new middle level health workers training in the Amhara regional state of Ethiopia: students' perspective
Haileyesus Getahun, Hanna Yirga, Daniel Argaw
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
Is council tax valuation band a predictor of mortality?
Norman R Beale, Gordon J Taylor, Dawn MK Straker-Cook
Regular use of aspirin and pancreatic cancer risk
Ravi J Menezes, Kenneth R Huber, Martin C Mahoney, Kirsten B Moysich
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
Predictors of positive health in disability pensioners: a population-based questionnaire study using Positive Odds Ratio
Göran Ejlertsson, Lena Edén, Ido Leden
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
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
Patient and health service delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia
Meaza Demissie, Bernt Lindtjorn, Yemane Berhane
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
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
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
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