LETTERS:

Peizhong Peter Wang and Elizabeth M. Badley

CONTRIBUTION OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS TO AGGREGATE CHANGES IN OLD-AGE FUNCTIONING
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 7. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vicki A. Freedman and Linda G. Martin

FREEDMAN AND MARTIN RESPOND
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 7-8. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeanne M. Santoli and Alan R. Hinman

NONMEDICAL EXEMPTIONS TO STATE IMMUNIZATION LAWS
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 8. [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITOR'S CHOICE:

Mary E. Northridge

Reconnecting the Mouth to the Body of Public Health
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 9. [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITORIALS:

Allan Rosenfield, Stephen S. Morse, and Katy Yanda

September 11: The Response and Role of Public Health
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 10-11. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH:

Stephen Beetstra, Daniel Derksen, Marguerite Ro, Wayne Powell, Donald E. Fry, and Arthur Kaufman

A "Health Commons" Approach to Oral Health for Low-Income Populations in a Rural State
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 12-13. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Linda Rosenstock and Lore Jackson Lee

Attacks on Science: The Risks to Evidence-Based Policy
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 14-18. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Benjamin Loevinsohn, Bruce Aylward, Robert Steinglass, Ellyn Ogden, Tracey Goodman, and Bjorn Melgaard

Impact of Targeted Programs on Health Systems: A Case Study of the Polio Eradication Initiative
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 19-23. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

FIELD ACTION REPORT:

Patrick L. Kinney, Mary E. Northridge, Ginger L. Chew, Erik Gronning, Evelyn Joseph, Juan C. Correa, Swati Prakash, and Inge Goldstein

On the Front Lines: An Environmental Asthma Intervention in New York City
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 24-26. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura A. Linnan, Karen M. Emmons, and David B. Abrams

Beauty and the Beast: Results of the Rhode Island Smokefree Shop Initiative
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 27-28. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ON THE OTHER HAND:

Joseph S. Coyne and Peter Hilsenrath

The World Health Report 2000: Can Health Care Systems Be Compared Using a Single Measure of Performance?
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 30-33. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vicente Navarro

The World Health Report 2000: Can Health Care Systems Be Compared Using a Single Measure of Performance?
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 31-34. [Full Text] [PDF]  

IMAGES OF HEALTH:

Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman

The Tooth Puller [L'arracheur de dents]
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 35. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PUBLIC HEALTH THEN AND NOW:

Bert Hansen

Public Careers and Private Sexuality: Some Gay and Lesbian Lives in the History of Medicine and Public Health
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 36-44. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE:

Natalie C. G. Freeman, Dona Schneider, and Patricia McGarvey

School-Based Screening for Asthma in Third-Grade Urban Children: The Passaic Asthma Reduction Effort Survey
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 45-46. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert W. Haley, Ann Matt Maddrey, and Howard K. Gershenfeld

Severely Reduced Functional Status in Veterans Fitting a Case Definition of Gulf War Syndrome
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 46-47. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Katherine Berg, Marilyn Hines, and Susan Allen

Wheelchair Users at Home: Few Home Modifications and Many Injurious Falls
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 48. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Georgina P. Zabos, Mary E. Northridge, Marguerite J. Ro, Chau Trinh, Roger Vaughan, Joyce Moon Howard, Ira Lamster, Mary T. Bassett, and Alwyn T. Cohall

Lack of Oral Health Care for Adults in Harlem: A Hidden Crisis
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 49-52. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mahyar Mofidi, R. Gary Rozier, and Rebecca S. King

Problems With Access to Dental Care for Medicaid-Insured Children: What Caregivers Think
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 53-58. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Holly G. Prigerson, Paul K. Maciejewski, and Robert A. Rosenheck

Population Attributable Fractions of Psychiatric Disorders and Behavioral Outcomes Associated With Combat Exposure Among US Men
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 59-63. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sharon Stein Merkin, Lori Stevenson, and Neil Powe

Geographic Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Advanced-Stage Breast Cancer in New York City
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 64-70. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Alfredo Morabia, Michael C. Costanza, Martine S. Bernstein, and Jean-Charles Rielle

Ages at Initiation of Cigarette Smoking and Quit Attempts Among Women: A Generation Effect
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 71-74. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Edward Sepe and Stanton A. Glantz

Bar and Club Tobacco Promotions in the Alternative Press: Targeting Young Adults
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 75-78. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jeffrey B. Gould, Gilberto Chavez, Amy R. Marks, and Hao Liu

Incomplete Birth Certificates: A Risk Marker for Infant Mortality
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 79-81. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Judith A. Cook, Mardge H. Cohen, Dennis Grey, Lynn Kirstein, Jane Burke, Kathryn Anastos, Herminia Palacio, Jean Richardson, Tracey E. Wilson, and Mary Young

Use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in a Cohort of HIV-Seropositive Women
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 82-87. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dan Culica, James Rohrer, Marcia Ward, Peter Hilsenrath, and Paul Pomrehn

Medical Checkups: Who Does Not Get Them?
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 88-91. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philip S. Wang, Olga Demler, and Ronald C. Kessler

Adequacy of Treatment for Serious Mental Illness in the United States
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 92-98. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diane K. McLaughlin and C. Shannon Stokes

Income Inequality and Mortality in US Counties: Does Minority Racial Concentration Matter?
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 99-104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marko Elovainio, Mika Kivimäki, and Jussi Vahtera

Organizational Justice: Evidence of a New Psychosocial Predictor of Health
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 105-108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nancy Van Devanter, Virginia Gonzales, Cheryl Merzel, Nina S. Parikh, David Celantano, and Judith Greenberg

Effect of an STD/HIV Behavioral Intervention on Women's Use of the Female Condom
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 109-115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John M. Bolland and Debra Moehle McCallum

Touched by Homelessness: An Examination of Hospitality for the Down and Out
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 116-118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Embry M. Howell, Douglas Richardson, Paul Ginsburg, and Barbara Foot

Deregionalization of Neonatal Intensive Care in Urban Areas
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 119-124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maureen G. Phipps and MaryFran Sowers

Defining Early Adolescent Childbearing
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 125-128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Nominations Invited for 2002 APHA Awards
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 129-130. [Full Text] [PDF]  

MARKETPLACE:

MARKETPLACE
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES:

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Am J Public Health 2002 92: 138-148. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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