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Informal knowledge transfer in the period before formal health education programmes: case studies of mass media coverage of HIV and SIDS in England and Wales

Nick Hilliard1* email, Rebeka Jenkins1* email, Nora Pashayan2 email and John Powles2 email

University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2SP, UK

Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Public Health 2007, 7:293doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-293

Published: 17 October 2007

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Additional historical background. Further historical background on the evolution of mortality from the causes of interest and on the development of scientific knowledge relevant to the prevention of the two conditions of interest.

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Additional Table 1: Brief chronology of scientific discoveries and publications in HIV/AIDS. From first description of the syndrome in March, 1981 to the licencing of blood tests in 1985.

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Additional Table 2: Chronology of scientific publications on the association between SIDS and sleeping position. Reports of epidemiological studies of SIDS from 1965 to 1991.

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Additional Table 3: Data abstraction form for HIV/AIDS articles. Data abstraction form for HIV/AIDS articles.

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Additional Table 4: Data abstraction form for SIDS articles. Data abstraction form for SIDS articles.

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