Journal of Public Health

Editorials:

E. G. Jessop

Situational awareness in public health
J Public Health 2004 26: 1; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh121 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editors’ note: journal changes its name
J Public Health 2004 26: 2; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh123 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Surveillance:

Stephen Wilkinson, Tony Soteriou, Selena Gray, Judy Orme, and Judy Myles

Artefact or Reality? Increases in persons notified to the Regional Drug Misuse Database in the South West of England, 1996–2001
J Public Health 2004 26: 3-5; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh106 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elaine Scallan, Anthony Staines, Patricia Fitzpatrick, Marie Laffoy, and Alan Kelly

Unintentional injury in Ireland: a comparison of mortality and morbidity data
J Public Health 2004 26: 6-7; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh107 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Goldacre, Marie Duncan, Paula Cook-Mozaffari, and Myfanwy Griffith

Mortality rates for common respiratory diseases in an English population 1979–1998: artefact and substantive trends
J Public Health 2004 26: 8-12; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh099 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barbara J. M. H. Jefferis, Chris Power, Hilary Graham, and Orly Manor

Changing social gradients in cigarette smoking and cessation over two decades of adult follow-up in a British birth cohort
J Public Health 2004 26: 13-18; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh110 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Glenn Stewart, Ruth Ruggles, and Janet Peacock

The association of self-reported violence at home and health in primary school pupils in West London
J Public Health 2004 26: 19-23; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh113 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. Fielding, Y. Y. Chee, K. M. Choi, T. K. Chu, K. Kato, S. K. Lam, K. L. Sin, K. T. Tang, H. M. Wong, and K. M. Wong

Declines in tobacco brand recognition and ever-smoking rates among young children following restrictions on tobacco advertisements in Hong Kong
J Public Health 2004 26: 24-30; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh118 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil Hamlet and Karen Kennedy

Reconnaissance study of sunbed use by primary school children in Lanarkshire
J Public Health 2004 26: 31-33; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh117 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Health services:

Simon de Lusignan, Nigel Hague, Adrian Brown, and Azeem Majeed

An educational intervention to improve data recording in the management of ischaemic heart disease in primary care
J Public Health 2004 26: 34-37; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh104 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pauline Williams, Christine Bond, Philip Hannaford, and Lewis Ritchie

Influences on general practitioners' use of pre-hospital thrombolysis: a qualitative study
J Public Health 2004 26: 38-41; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh108 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shamini Gnani, Jeremy Gray, Kamlesh Khunti, and Azeem Majeed

Managing heart failure in primary care: first steps in implementing the National Service Framework
J Public Health 2004 26: 42-47; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh102 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Ashworth, Robert Lea, Heather Gray, Gill Rowlands, Hugh Gravelle, and Azeem Majeed

How are primary care organizations using financial incentives to influence prescribing?
J Public Health 2004 26: 48-51; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh100 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barny Foot, Robbie Foy, Usha Chakravarthy, and Richard Wormald

Increasing use of a new health technology during the wait for NICE guidance: findings from the third national tracker survey of photodynamic therapy
J Public Health 2004 26: 52-55; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh112 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jenny Hacker and Debbi Stanistreet

Equity in waiting times for two surgical specialties: a case study at a hospital in the North West of England
J Public Health 2004 26: 56-60; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh115 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Health protection:

Ken Stein, Kim Dalziel, Andrew Walker, Becky Jenkins, Alison Round, and Pam Royle

Screening for Hepatitis C in injecting drug users: a cost utility analysis
J Public Health 2004 26: 61-71; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh109 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Viviane Van Casteren, Dirk Devroey, André Sasse, and Solvejg Wallyn

An 8 year nationwide prospective registration of non-consented HIV testing in Belgium
J Public Health 2004 26: 72-76; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh081 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William T. Hamilton, Alison P. Round, Deborah J. Sharp, and Tim J. Peters

High incidence of mesothelioma in an English city without heavy industrial use of asbestos
J Public Health 2004 26: 77-78; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh116 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methods and data:

Jo Brett and Joan Austoker

Development and validation of the EBS: a measure to assess women's experience at all stages of the breast screening process
J Public Health 2004 26: 79-83; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh105 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroshi Aino, Shinichiro Yanagisawa, and Isao Kamae

The number needed to treat needs an associated odds estimation
J Public Health 2004 26: 84-87; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh101 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. E. Harcourt, D. E. Edwards, D. M. Fleming, R. L. Smith, and G. E. Smith

How representative is the population covered by the RCGP spotter practice scheme? Using Geographical Information Systems to assess
J Public Health 2004 26: 88-94; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh111 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jerry Spiegel, Carlos Barceló, Eric B. Loucks, Mariano Bonet, Alfredo Aldama, and Annalee Yassi

What the Cuban context provides health researchers: the feasibility of a longitudinal multi-method study of the impact of housing improvements on health in Havana, Cuba
J Public Health 2004 26: 95-100; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh114 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cochrane update:

Faline Howes, Jodie Doyle, Nicki Jackson, and Elizabeth Waters

Evidence-based public health: the importance of finding ‘difficult to locate’ public health and health promotion intervention studies for systematic reviews
J Public Health 2004 26: 101-104; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh119 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Quarterly Communicable Disease Review:

Communicable Disease and Health Protection Quarterly Review: July to September 2003
J Public Health 2004 26: 105-114; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh122 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence:

Cynthia Manson-Siddle

Health impact assessment in relation to other forms of impact assessment
J Public Health 2004 26: 115-116; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh103 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jane Lawson, Ian Holtby, and Clare Eynon

Hepatitis B vaccine uptake among injecting drug users
J Public Health 2004 26: 116-117; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh120 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum:

Anne T Gavin

Erratum
J Public Health 2004 26: 118; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh000 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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