Issue 1/2003
Content (42 Articles)
Hypertension in the Parsi community of Bombay: a study on prevalence, awareness and compliance to treatment
Nadir E Bharucha, Thomas Kuruvilla
Endemic cryptosporidiosis and exposure to municipal tap water in persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): A case-control study
Tomás J Aragón, Suzanne Novotny, Wayne Enanoria, Duc J Vugia, Asheena Khalakdina, Mitchell H Katz
Overweight and obesity in relation to cardiovascular disease risk factors among medical students in Crete, Greece
George Bertsias, Ioannis Mammas, Manolis Linardakis, Anthony Kafatos
The study of reproductive outcome and the health of offspring of UK veterans of the Gulf war: methods and description of the study population
Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle, Graham Davies, Samantha Lewis, Margo Pelerin, Susan Prior, Patrick Sampson
Airborne rhinovirus detection and effect of ultraviolet irradiation on detection by a semi-nested RT-PCR assay
Theodore A Myatt, Sebastian L Johnston, Stephen Rudnick, Donald K Milton
Attitudes of developing world physicians to where medical research is performed and reported
John Page, Richard F Heller, Scott Kinlay, Lynette L-Y Lim, Wang Qian, Zheng Suping, Supornchai Kongpatanakul, Murtaza Akhtar, Salah Khedr, William Macharia
Implementing guidelines in primary care: can population impact measures help?
Richard F Heller, Richard Edwards, Patrick McElduff
Disability in young adults following major trauma: 5 year follow up of survivors
Sian A Evans, Mark C Airey, Susan M Chell, James B Connelly, Alan S Rigby, Alan Tennant
Breast cancer screening beliefs by practice location
Lisa M Santora, Martin C Mahoney, Silvana Lawvere, Jessica J Englert, Andrew B Symons, Amy L Mirand
A comparison between the effort-reward imbalance and demand control models
Aleck S Ostry, Shona Kelly, Paul A Demers, Cameron Mustard, Clyde Hertzman
Is drinking water a risk factor for endemic cryptosporidiosis? A case-control study in the immunocompetent general population of the San Francisco Bay Area
Asheena Khalakdina, Duc J Vugia, Joelle Nadle, Gretchen A Rothrock, John M Colford Jr
The Cornella Health Interview Survey Follow-Up (CHIS.FU) Study: design, methods, and response rate
Montse Garcia, Anna Schiaffino, Esteve Fernandez, Merce Marti, Esteve Salto, Gloria Perez, Merce Peris, Carme Borrell, F Javier Nieto, Josep Maria Borras
A summertime peak of "winter vomiting disease": Surveillance of noroviruses in England and Wales, 1995 to 2002
Ben A Lopman, Mark Reacher, Chris Gallimore, Goutam K Adak, Jim J Gray, David WG Brown
Health and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on South African households: a cohort study
Max O Bachmann, Frederick LR Booysen
Explaining the de-prioritization of primary prevention: Physicians' perceptions of their role in the delivery of primary care
Amy L Mirand, Gregory P Beehler, Christina L Kuo, Martin C Mahoney
Effects of Greek orthodox christian church fasting on serum lipids and obesity
Katerina O Sarri, Nikolaos E Tzanakis, Manolis K Linardakis, George D Mamalakis, Anthony G Kafatos
Womens' opinions on antenatal care in developing countries: results of a study in Cuba, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Argentina
Gustavo Nigenda, Ana Langer, Chusri Kuchaisit, Mariana Romero, Georgina Rojas, Muneera Al-Osimy, José Villar, Jo Garcia, Yagob Al-Mazrou, Hassan Ba'aqeel, Guillermo Carroli, Ubaldo Farnot, Pisake Lumbiganon, José Belizán, Per Bergsjo, Leiv Bakketeig, Gunilla Lindmark
Awareness of vaccination status and its predictors among working people in Switzerland
Chung-Yol Lee, Claudine Naguel, Danielle Gyurech, Nicole Duvoisin, Julian Schilling
Feasibility and effectiveness of offering a solution-focused follow-up to employees with psychological problems or muscle skeletal pain: a randomised controlled trial
Pål Nystuen, Kåre B Hagen
Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination
W Katherine Yih, Tracy A Lieu, Virginia H Rêgo, Megan A O'Brien, David K Shay, Deborah S Yokoe, Richard Platt
The influence of calcium and magnesium in drinking water and diet on cardiovascular risk factors in individuals living in hard and soft water areas with differences in cardiovascular mortality
Christina Nerbrand, Lars Agréus, Ragnhild Arvidsson Lenner, Per Nyberg, Kurt Svärdsudd
A retrospective population based trend analysis on hospital admissions for lower respiratory illness among Swedish children from 1987 to 2000
Ove Björ, Lennart Bråbäck
Heterogeneity in regional notification patterns and its impact on aggregate national case notification data: the example of measles in Italy
John R Williams, Piero Manfredi, Alisa R Butler, Marta Ciofi degli Atti, Stefania Salmaso
Generalizability of guidelines and physicians' adherence. Case study on the Sixth Joint National Commitee's guidelines on hypertension
Claudio Pedone, Kate L Lapane
The new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease accounts for no relative increase of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mortality rate in the United Kingdom; this fits ill with the new variant being the consequence of consumption of food infected with the agent of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Ivan Laprevotte, Alain Hénaut
Risks of serious complications and death from smallpox vaccination: A systematic review of the United States experience, 1963–1968
Tomás J Aragón, Skylar Ulrich, Susan Fernyak, George W Rutherford
Filipina American women's breast cancer knowledge, attitudes, and screening behaviors
Celine M Ko, Georgia Robins Sadler, Lisa Ryujin, Adam Dong
Breastfeeding practices in a cohort of inner-city women: the role of contraindications
Lucinda England, Ruth Brenner, Brinda Bhaskar, Bruce Simons-Morton, Abhik Das, Mary Revenis, Nitin Mehta, John Clemens
Demographic and parasitic infection status of schoolchildren and sanitary conditions of schools in Sanliurfa, Turkey
Mustafa Ulukanligil, Adnan Seyrek
Mortality after discharge from long-term psychiatric care in Scotland, 1977 – 94: a retrospective cohort study
Cameron Stark, Margaret MacLeod, David Hall, Fiona O'Brien, Anthony Pelosi
An evaluation of completeness of tuberculosis notification in the United Kingdom
Jayshree Pillaye, Aileen Clarke
Epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in Greece: aims, design and baseline characteristics of the ATTICA study
Christos Pitsavos, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, Christodoulos Stefanadis
Current HIV/AIDS end-of-life care in sub-Saharan Africa: a survey of models, services, challenges and priorities
Richard Harding, Karen Stewart, Katherine Marconi, Joseph F O'Neill, Irene J Higginson
Re-emerging syphilis: a detrended correspondence analysis of the behaviour of HIV positive and negative gay men
C Philip Wheater, Penny A Cook, Pete Clark, Qutub Syed, Mark A Bellis
A study on cercarial dermatitis in Khuzestan province, south western Iran
Ali Farahnak, Mostafa Essalat
PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers) Protocol for a community-randomised trial [ISRCTN03464021]
Judith Lumley, Rhonda Small, Stephanie Brown, Lyndsey Watson, Jane Gunn, Creina Mitchell, Wendy Dawson
Syringe access for the prevention of blood borne infections among injection drug users
Sharon Stancliff, Bruce Agins, Josiah D Rich, Scott Burris
Household item ownership and self-rated health: material and psychosocial explanations
Hynek Pikhart, Martin Bobak, Richard Rose, Michael Marmot
Risk factors for antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter spp. isolated from raw poultry meat in Switzerland
Ursula Ledergerber, Gertraud Regula, Roger Stephan, Jürg Danuser, Béatrice Bissig, Katharina DC Stärk
An epidemiological study of pleuropulmonary paragonimiasis among pupils in the peri-urban zone of Kumba town, Meme Division, Cameroon
Roger Moyou-Somo, Charles Kefie-Arrey, Georges Dreyfuss, Michel Dumas
Racial differences in influenza vaccination among older americans 1996–2000: longitudinal analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey
Truls Østbye, Donald H Taylor, Ann Marie M Lee, Gary Greenberg, Lynn van Scoyoc
Public opinion regarding earmarked cigarette tax in Taiwan
Yi-Wen Tsai, Lee-Lan Yen, Chung-Lin Yang, Pei-Fen Chen