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Melissa Norton, MD Medical Editor
Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD In-house Editor
Natalie Pafitis
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The Latin American Social Medicine database
Jonathan D Eldredge, Howard Waitzkin, Holly S Buchanan, Janis Teal, Celia Iriart, Kevin Wiley, Jonathan Tregear
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:69 (31December2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:68 (29December2004)
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Study protocol
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:67 (24December2004)
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Research article
Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002
Colin D Mathers, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Joshua A Salomon, Ajay Tandon, Somnath Chatterji, Bedirhan Ust n, Christopher JL Murray
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:66 (24December2004)
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Induced abortion and effecting factors of ever married women in the Southeast Anatolian Project Region, Turkey: a cross sectional study
Ali Ihsan Bozkurt, Birgul  zcirpici, Servet Ozgur, Saime Sahinoz, Turgut Sahinoz, Gunay Saka, Ali Ceylan, Ersen Ilcin, Hamit Acemoglu, Yilmaz Palanci, Feridun Akkafa, Mucide Ak
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:65 (22December2004)
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Intestinal parasites prevalence and related factors in school children, a western city sample-Turkey
Pinar Okyay, Sema Ertug, Berna Gultekin, Ozlem Onen, Erdal Beser
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:64 (22December2004)
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Association between mortality from suicide in England and antidepressant prescribing: an ecological study
Oliver WC Morgan, Clare Griffiths, Azeem Majeed
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:63 (21December2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:62 (15December2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:61 (14December2004)
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Validity of self reported male balding patterns in epidemiological studies
Rosalind Taylor, Julia Matassa, Justine E Leavy, Lin Fritschi
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:60 (13December2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:59 (7December2004)
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Educational and economic determinants of food intake in Portuguese adults: a cross-sectional survey
Pedro A Moreira, Patricia D Padr o
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:58 (2December2004)
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The family as a determinant of stunting in children living in conditions of extreme poverty: a case-control study
Hortensia Reyes, Ricardo P rez-Cuevas, Araceli Sandoval, Ra l Castillo, Jos Ignacio Santos, Svetlana V Doubova, Gonzalo Gutirrez
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:57 (30November2004)
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Mineral water intake reduces blood pressure among subjects with low urinary magnesium and calcium levels
Ragnar Rylander, Maurice J Arnaud
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:56 (30November2004)
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The lack of public health research output from India
Lalit Dandona, Yegnanarayana S Sivan, Mukkamala N Jyothi, VS Udaya Bhaskar, Rakhi Dandona
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:55 (25November2004)
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Research article
Females do not have more injury road accidents on Friday the 13th
Igor Radun, Heikki Summala
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:54 (16November2004)
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Overweight, obesity, and colorectal cancer screening: Disparity between men and women
Moonseong Heo, David B Allison, Kevin R Fontaine
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:53 (8November2004)
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Research article
Validating the Time and Change test to screen for dementia in elderly Koreans
Jung-Ae Rhee, Eun-Kyung Chung, Min-Ho Shin
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:52 (4November2004)
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Allergic conditions and risk of hematological malignancies in adults: a cohort study
Karin C S derberg, Lars Hagmar, Judith Schwartzbaum, Maria Feychting
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:51 (4November2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:50 (1November2004)
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Trends in suicide in Scotland 1981  1999: age, method and geography
Cameron Stark, Paddy Hopkins, Diane Gibbs, Tracey Rapson, Alan Belbin, Alistair Hay
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:49 (20October2004)
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Study protocol
The ProActive trial 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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:48 (18October2004)
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Research article
Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India
Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Richard Peto
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:47 (15October2004)
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Research article
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 F rde
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:46 (12October2004)
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Research article
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
Bjrn Blomberg, Davis SM Mwakagile, Willy K Urassa, Samwel Y Maselle, Marcellina Mashurano, Asbjrn Digranes, Stig Harthug, Nina Langeland
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:45 (11October2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:44 (7October2004)
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Targeting smoking cessation to high prevalence communities: outcomes from a pilot intervention for gay men
Richard Harding, James Bensley, Nick Corrigan
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:43 (30September2004)
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Fear of nuclear war increases the risk of common mental disorders among young adults: a five-year follow-up study
Kari Poikolainen, Terhi Aalto-Set l, Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson, Mauri Marttunen, Jouko Lnnqvist
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:42 (30September2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:41 (30September2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:40 (1September2004)
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Study protocol
The Internet and HIV study: design and methods
Jonathan Elford, Graham Bolding, Mark Davis, Lorraine Sherr, Graham Hart
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:39 (1September2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:38 (25August2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:37 (12August2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:36 (11August2004)
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Research article
The National Women's Health Study: assembly and description of a population-based reproductive cohort
Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle, Susan Prior
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:35 (7August2004)
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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, Tom s J Arag n
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:34 (6August2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:33 (5August2004)
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Research article
Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria
Samer Rastam, Kenneth D Ward, Thomas Eissenberg, Wasim Maziak
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:32 (4August2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:31 (30July2004)
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Geographic correlation between deprivation and risk of meningococcal disease: an ecological study
Christopher J Williams, Lorna J Willocks, Iain R Lake, Paul R Hunter
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:30 (26July2004)
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Evaluation of reporting timeliness of public health surveillance systems for infectious diseases
Ruth Ann Jajosky, Samuel L Groseclose
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:29 (26July2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:28 (20July2004)
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Self-reported ill health in male UK Gulf War veterans: a retrospective cohort study
Rebecca Simmons, Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:27 (13July2004)
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Risk factors and in-hospital outcomes in stroke and myocardial infarction patients
Mario Ivanusa, Zrinka Ivanusa
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:26 (5July2004)
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Analysis of inadequate cervical smears using Shewhart control charts
Wayne N Harrison, Mohammed A Mohammed, Michael K Wall, Tom P Marshall
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:25 (29June2004)
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Knowledge of AIDS and HIV risk-related sexual behavior among Nigerian naval personnel
Ugboga Adaji Nwokoji, Ademola J Ajuwon
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:24 (21June2004)
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Research article
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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:23 (18June2004)
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Research article
Reliability and validity of a short form household food security scale in a Caribbean community
Martin C Gulliford, Deepak Mahabir, Brian Rocke
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:22 (16June2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:21 (9June2004)
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Debate
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 Hbert
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:20 (7June2004)
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Crowding: risk factor or protective factor for lower respiratory disease in young children?
Maria Regina Alves Cardoso, Simon Nicholas Cousens, Luiz Fernando de Ges Siqueira, Ftima Maria Alves, Luiz Ant nio V D'Angelo
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:19 (3June2004)
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Patterns of delays amongst pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Lagos, Nigeria
Olumuyiwa O Odusanya, Joseph O Babafemi
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:18 (29May2004)
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Research article
Knowledge and attitude towards HIV/AIDS among Iranian students
Anahita Tavoosi, Azadeh Zaferani, Anahita Enzevaei, Parvin Tajik, Zahra Ahmadinezhad
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:17 (24May2004)
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Feasibility of identifying families for genetic studies of birth defects using the National Health Interview Survey
Diego F Wyszynski, Vikki G Nolan
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:16 (12May2004)
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Deprived children or deprived neighbourhoods? A public health approach to the investigation of links between deprivation and injury risk with specific reference to child road safety in Devon County, UK
Paul Hewson
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:15 (10May2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:14 (4May2004)
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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, Joo RR Pinho, Isabel MVGC Mello, Dennis A Bertolini, Marc lio F Lemos, Regina C Moreira, Leda C Bassit, Rita A Cardoso, Gabriela Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Luiz C Da Silva
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:13 (27April2004)
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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
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:12 (27April2004)
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Debate
Health promotion through self-care and community participation: Elements of a proposed programme in the developing countries
Khanindra Kumar Bhuyan
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:11 (16April2004)
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"New Choices" for women with addictions: perceptions of program participants
Wendy Sword, Alison Niccols, Aimei Fan
BMC Public Health 2004, 4:10 (15April2004)
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