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28 July 2001 (Vol 323, No 7306)
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Evidence on health effects of housing improvements is scarce [Full text]
The long term cost of antisocial behaviour in childhood is high---and avoidable [Full text]
Parenting groups reduce antisocial behaviour in children [Full text]
Children in women's refuges have unmet health needs [Full text]
Angina patients in former mining communities delay seeking help [Full text]
Cheap, smuggled tobacco makes it harder to give up smoking [Full text]

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Policies to tackle social exclusion
Graham Watt
BMJ  2001;323:175-176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.175
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Reaching all children
Margaret A Lynch, David Gough
BMJ  2001;323:176-177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.176
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Social capital
Tom Welsh, Mike Pringle
BMJ  2001;323:177-178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.177
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Disability discrimination
Joyce M Carter, Natalie Markham
BMJ  2001;323:178-179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.178
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One Bristol, but there could have been many
Richard Smith
BMJ  2001;323:179-180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.179
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Plight of elderly people who are made homeless in hospital
Tom Downes, K S Channer
BMJ  2001;323:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.229
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Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees
Matthew Hodes, B K MacDonald, C J Mummery, D Heaney
BMJ  2001;323:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.229/a
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Violence towards female prostitutes
Sophie Day, Helen Ward, Petra M Boynton
BMJ  2001;323:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.230
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Management of prisoners with HIV infection
A J Ashworth, Simon Portsmouth
BMJ  2001;323:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.230/a
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Physical health of people with severe mental illness
Wally Barr, Pamela van de Hoef, Ian Colls, Roman Scheurer, John McGrath, Harvey Whiteford
BMJ  2001;323:231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.231
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Risk of suicide related to income level in mental illness
Markku Timonen, Kaisa Viilo, Helinä Hakko, Erkki Väisänen, Pirkko Räsänen, Terttu Särkioja, Oliver Razum, Lakshmi Swamy, Walter H Curioso, Klaus E Monkemuller
BMJ  2001;323:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.232
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Neomycin should not be used to treat hepatic encephalopathy
Walter H Curioso, Klaus E Monkemuller
BMJ  2001;323:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.233
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Long term anticoagulation or antiplatelet treatment
John G F Cleland, Gerry C Kaye, Jonathan Mant, David Fitzmaurice, Ellen Murray, Gregory Y H Lip, F D Richard Hobbs, Gregory Peterson, Shane Jackson, Eduardo Stragliotto, John Godtfredsen, Gudrun Boysen, Palle Petersen, Andrew Evans, Lalit Kalra, Christopher Cates, Fiona Taylor, Hannah Cohen, Shah Ebrahim
BMJ  2001;323:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.233/a
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Distressed women take contact tracing seriously
Jan Clarke
BMJ  2001;323:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.236
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Communicable disease control must remain at local level
Nigel Calvert
BMJ  2001;323:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.236/a
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Reviewing screening mammograms with newly diagnosed patients is another unnecessary burden
Anne Stotter, Richard Windle, John Jameson
BMJ  2001;323:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.236/b
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Bristol inquiry
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2001;323:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.181
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Individuals who should have behaved differently
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2001;323:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.182
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Kennedy refused to read the General Medical Council's reports
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2001;323:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.183
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Kyoto protocol rescued in Bonn
Kathryn Sheridan
BMJ  2001;323:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.185/b
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In brief
BMJ  2001;323:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.186
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Summit fails to agree new deal on world debt
Mike Rowson
BMJ  2001;323:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.186/a
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Oxfam accuses Pfizer of "moral bankruptcy"
Rory Watson
BMJ  2001;323:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.186/b
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EC moves towards "direct to consumer" advertising
Rory Watson
BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184
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Scottish parliament urged to ban tobacco advertising
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/a
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EC to pursue its smuggling lawsuit against tobacco companies
Rory Watson
BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/b
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Doubts raised over cancer vaccine study
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/c
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Moderate use of painkillers presents no harm to kidneys
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/d
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Glossy magazine launched for women drug users
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/e
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Radiation dose in scans could be halved
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2001;323:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.185
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Early bypass surgery increases risk of stroke
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2001;323:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.185/a
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The health of children in refuges for women victims of domestic violence: cross sectional descriptive survey
Elspeth Webb, Judith Shankleman, Meirion R Evans, Rachel Brooks
BMJ  2001;323:210-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.210
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Barriers to uptake of services for coronary heart disease: qualitative study
Angela M Tod, Cathy Read, Anne Lacey, Jo Abbott
BMJ  2001;323:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.214
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Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Trachoma
Denise Mabey, Nicole Fraser-Hurt
BMJ  2001;323:218-221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.218
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Looking down on Edinburgh
Colin Douglas
BMJ  2001;323:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.241/a
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Inequality
Elizabeth Moulder
BMJ  2001;323:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.240
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Managing chronic disease
Imre Loefler
BMJ  2001;323:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.241
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Equity in the new NHS: hard lessons from implementing a local healthcare policy on donepezil
Yvonne Doyle
BMJ  2001;323:222-224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.222
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Systematic reviews in health care: Systematic reviews of evaluations of prognostic variables
Douglas G Altman
BMJ  2001;323:224-228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.224
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Minerva
BMJ  2001;323:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.242
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A memorable patient: The patient might be right
Peter Strangeways
BMJ  2001;323:198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.198
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Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
BMJ  2001;323:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.208/a
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Un homme différent
Jean-Yves Panici
BMJ  2001;323:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.209
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Endpiece: The difference
BMJ  2001;323:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.214/a
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A memorable patient: An unmerciful end
R H Soper
BMJ  2001;323:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.217
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Another case of breathlessness
Dr A Inwald
BMJ  2001;323:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.221
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Book: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Amir Attaran
BMJ  2001;323:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.239
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Book: Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective • Mind the Gap: Hierarchies, Health and Human Evolution
Ronan Conroy
BMJ  2001;323:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.239/a
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Press: Bristol fails to ignite
Neville W Goodman
BMJ  2001;323:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.238
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Social exclusion: old problem, new name
BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.0
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Netlines
Harry Brown
BMJ  2001;323:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.240/b
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Social exclusion: old problem, new name
BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.0/a
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Website of the week: The health of the excluded
Helen Barratt
BMJ  2001;323:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.240/a
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Edmund Were Dorrell • Benjamin Flacks • Robert Hereward Glendinning • David Hutchison • John Charles Linley-Adams
David Dorrell, Robert Flacks, David Memel, Roger Thomas, Ian Brown, John Surtees
BMJ  2001;323:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.237
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Health effects of housing improvement: systematic review of intervention studies
Hilary Thomson, Mark Petticrew, David Morrison
BMJ  2001;323:187-190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.187
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Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood
Stephen Scott, Martin Knapp, Juliet Henderson, Barbara Maughan
BMJ  2001;323:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.191
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Multicentre controlled trial of parenting groups for childhood antisocial behaviour in clinical practice • Commentary: nipping conduct problems in the bud
Stephen Scott, Quentin Spender, Moira Doolan, Brian Jacobs, Helen Aspland, Carolyn Webster-Stratton
BMJ  2001;323:194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.194
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Changing patterns of teenage pregnancy: population based study of small areas
Alice McLeod
BMJ  2001;323:199-203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.199
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"They're doing people a service"---qualitative study of smoking, smuggling, and social deprivation
Susan Wiltshire, Angus Bancroft, Amanda Amos, Odette Parry
BMJ  2001;323:203-207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.203
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Mortality in children registered in the Finnish child welfare registry: population based study
Mirjam Kalland, Tiina H Pensola, Jouni Meriläinen, Jari Sinkkonen
BMJ  2001;323:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.207
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Social environments and health: cross sectional national survey
Andrew McCulloch
BMJ  2001;323:208-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.208
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